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"extra": "Brazilian Air Force",
"word": "Força Aérea Brasileira"
}
],
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"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Portuguese acronyms",
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"Portuguese feminine nouns",
"Portuguese lemmas",
"Portuguese links with redundant alt parameters",
"Portuguese links with redundant wikilinks",
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],
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"Acronym of Força Aérea Brasileira (“Brazilian Air Force”)."
],
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[
"Força Aérea Brasileira",
"w:pt:Força Aérea Brasileira"
],
[
"Air Force",
"Air Force"
]
],
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"(Brazil) Acronym of Força Aérea Brasileira (“Brazilian Air Force”)."
],
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"abbreviation",
"acronym",
"alt-of",
"feminine"
],
"wikipedia": [
"pt:FAB"
]
}
],
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}
{
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{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "proper nouns",
"g": "f",
"g2": "",
"g3": "",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "FAB f",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "f"
},
"expansion": "FAB f",
"name": "es-proper-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Spanish",
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"pos": "name",
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{
"alt_of": [
{
"extra": "Bolivian Air Force",
"word": "Fuerza Aérea Boliviana"
}
],
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"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Spanish abbreviations",
"Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
"Spanish feminine nouns",
"Spanish lemmas",
"Spanish links with redundant alt parameters",
"Spanish links with redundant wikilinks",
"Spanish proper nouns"
],
"glosses": [
"Abbreviation of Fuerza Aérea Boliviana (“Bolivian Air Force”)."
],
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[
"Fuerza Aérea Boliviana",
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],
[
"Air Force",
"Air Force"
]
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"feminine"
],
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"es:Fab (desambiguación)"
]
}
],
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}
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