See baboe on Wiktionary
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}
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}
],
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"lang_code": "pea",
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"text": "...baboe dan koki boeat menjaksiken bahoea ia poenja otak miring.",
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],
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"servant"
]
]
}
],
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}
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"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: 1901–1947",
"path": [
"baboe"
],
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"subsection": "noun",
"title": "baboe",
"trace": ""
}
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"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: 1901–1947",
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