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"word": "Լեւանտ"
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"word": "শাম"
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"roman": "Lèifàntè",
"sense": "the countries bordering the eastern Mediterranean Sea",
"word": "累范特"
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"word": "ლევანტი"
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"sense": "the countries bordering the eastern Mediterranean Sea",
"word": "Austurlönd nær"
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"word": "レバント"
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"word": "레반트"
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"word": "Шом"
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"word": "ลิแวนต์"
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"english": "The capital - or rather the only city of the island, of the same name, no longer the shadow of what it formerly was since the murder of 1822, used to be one of the best settlements of the Levant.",
"text": "1836, Nicolaas G. van Kampen, De Levant of Mohammedaansch Azië, vol. 3, publ. by de erven François Bohn, page 223.\nDe hoofd- of liever de eenige stad des eilands, van denzelfden naam, sedert den moord van 1822 de schaduw niet meer van hetgeen zij vroeger was, plagt eene der beste plaatsen van de Levant te zijn.",
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"english": "These have a general shape that was widespread in the Levant during the Late Bronze Age.",
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"form": "sh-decl-noun-unc\n",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "Levant",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Levanta",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Levantu",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Levant",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Levante",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "Levantu",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"locative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Levantom",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"singular"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"g": "m",
"head": "Lèvant"
},
"expansion": "Lèvant m (Cyrillic spelling Лѐвант)",
"name": "sh-proper noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"Le‧vant"
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "Levant",
"2": "Levanta",
"3": "Levantu",
"4": "Levant",
"5": "Levante",
"6": "Levantu",
"7": "Levantom"
},
"name": "sh-decl-noun-unc"
}
],
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"lang_code": "sh",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Serbo-Croatian entries with incorrect language header",
"Serbo-Croatian lemmas",
"Serbo-Croatian masculine nouns",
"Serbo-Croatian proper nouns",
"Serbo-Croatian terms with IPA pronunciation",
"sh:Regions of Asia"
],
"glosses": [
"Levant (a region of Western Asia, bordering the Mediterranean Sea)"
],
"links": [
[
"Levant",
"Levant#English"
],
[
"Western Asia",
"Western Asia#English"
],
[
"Mediterranean Sea",
"Mediterranean Sea"
]
],
"wikipedia": [
"sh:Levant"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/lěʋant/"
}
],
"word": "Levant"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "tr",
"2": "proper noun",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "Levant",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "Levant",
"name": "tr-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "Turkish",
"lang_code": "tr",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Turkish entries with incorrect language header",
"Turkish lemmas",
"Turkish proper nouns",
"tr:Regions of Asia"
],
"glosses": [
"Levant (a region of Western Asia, bordering the Mediterranean Sea)"
],
"links": [
[
"Levant",
"Levant#English"
],
[
"Western Asia",
"Western Asia#English"
],
[
"Mediterranean Sea",
"Mediterranean Sea"
]
]
}
],
"word": "Levant"
}
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