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"de:Photography"
],
"glosses": [
"flash"
],
"links": [
[
"photography",
"photography"
],
[
"flash",
"flash"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(photography) flash"
],
"tags": [
"masculine",
"strong"
],
"topics": [
"arts",
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"photography"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/blɪts/"
},
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"audio": "De-Blitz2.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/10/De-Blitz2.ogg/De-Blitz2.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/De-Blitz2.ogg",
"text": "audio"
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],
"wikipedia": [
"Friedrich Kluge",
"John Francis Davis"
],
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}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (a644e18 and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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