See הבל on Wiktionary
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"Pages with entries",
"Yiddish entries with incorrect language header",
"Yiddish lemmas",
"Yiddish masculine nouns",
"Yiddish proper nouns",
"Yiddish terms derived from Hebrew",
"Yiddish terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
"yi:Biblical characters"
],
"derived": [
{
"english": "vanity of vanities",
"word": "אַבֿל־אַבֿלים"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "yi",
"2": "he",
"3": "הֶבֶל"
},
"expansion": "Hebrew הֶבֶל",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Hebrew הֶבֶל.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "hevl",
"tags": [
"romanization"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "yi",
"2": "proper noun",
"g": "m",
"g2": "",
"g3": "",
"head": "",
"sort": "",
"tr": "hevl"
},
"expansion": "הבל • (hevl) m",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"g": "m",
"tr": "hevl"
},
"expansion": "הבל • (hevl) m",
"name": "yi-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "Yiddish",
"lang_code": "yi",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"Abel, the son of Adam."
],
"links": [
[
"Abel",
"Abel"
],
[
"Adam",
"Adam"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"vanity"
],
"links": [
[
"vanity",
"vanity"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "גאװה"
}
]
}
],
"word": "הבל"
}
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