See backhand on Wiktionary
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"categories": [
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Romanian countable nouns",
"Romanian entries with incorrect language header",
"Romanian lemmas",
"Romanian neuter nouns",
"Romanian nouns",
"Romanian nouns with red links in their headword lines",
"Romanian terms borrowed from English",
"Romanian terms derived from English",
"Romanian terms spelled with K",
"Romanian unadapted borrowings from English"
],
"glosses": [
"backhand"
],
"links": [
[
"backhand",
"backhand#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"neuter"
]
}
],
"word": "backhand"
}
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{
"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'genitive-dative'",
"path": [
"backhand"
],
"section": "Romanian",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "backhand",
"trace": ""
}
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