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"The use of such a board to attempt to communicate with spirits."
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"ipa": "/ˈwiːd͡ʒə/"
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"word": "وْيْجَا"
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"sense": "a board with letters of the alphabet and \"yes\" and \"no\"",
"word": "ouija laud"
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"code": "et",
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"sense": "a board with letters of the alphabet and \"yes\" and \"no\"",
"word": "ouija tahvel"
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"sense": "a board with letters of the alphabet and \"yes\" and \"no\"",
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"sense": "a board with letters of the alphabet and \"yes\" and \"no\"",
"word": "Ouija"
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"word": "Seelenschreiber"
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"word": "πίνακας Ouija"
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"sense": "a board with letters of the alphabet and \"yes\" and \"no\"",
"word": "πίνακας πνευμάτων"
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"code": "it",
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"word": "ouija"
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "a board with letters of the alphabet and \"yes\" and \"no\"",
"word": "tavola ouija"
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"code": "ja",
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"sense": "a board with letters of the alphabet and \"yes\" and \"no\"",
"word": "ウィジャボード"
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"word": "vīdža"
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"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "a board with letters of the alphabet and \"yes\" and \"no\"",
"word": "vidža lentelė"
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"code": "mt",
"lang": "Maltese",
"sense": "a board with letters of the alphabet and \"yes\" and \"no\"",
"word": "ouija board"
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"sense": "a board with letters of the alphabet and \"yes\" and \"no\"",
"word": "ouija"
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"sense": "a board with letters of the alphabet and \"yes\" and \"no\"",
"word": "ouija"
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a board with letters of the alphabet and \"yes\" and \"no\"",
"word": "tabuleiro ouija"
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"code": "ro",
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"sense": "a board with letters of the alphabet and \"yes\" and \"no\"",
"word": "ouija"
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "uidža",
"sense": "a board with letters of the alphabet and \"yes\" and \"no\"",
"tags": [
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"word": "уиджа"
},
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "a board with letters of the alphabet and \"yes\" and \"no\"",
"word": "güija"
},
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"code": "sv",
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"sense": "a board with letters of the alphabet and \"yes\" and \"no\"",
"word": "anden i glaset"
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"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "pǐi-tûai-gɛ̂ɛo",
"sense": "a board with letters of the alphabet and \"yes\" and \"no\"",
"word": "ผีถ้วยแก้ว"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "a board with letters of the alphabet and \"yes\" and \"no\"",
"word": "ouija"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "a board with letters of the alphabet and \"yes\" and \"no\"",
"word": "cadı tahtası"
},
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"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "vidža",
"sense": "a board with letters of the alphabet and \"yes\" and \"no\"",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "віджа"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "vidži",
"sense": "a board with letters of the alphabet and \"yes\" and \"no\"",
"word": "віджі"
},
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"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "a board with letters of the alphabet and \"yes\" and \"no\"",
"tags": [
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"word": "bwrdd ouija"
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],
"wikipedia": [
"Ouida",
"Ouija"
],
"word": "Ouija"
}
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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.