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"feminine"
],
"word": "чернота́"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "state or quality of being black",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "dubh"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "state or quality of being black",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "negror"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "state or quality of being black",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "negrura"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "state or quality of being black",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "svärta"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "kwaam-dam",
"sense": "state or quality of being black",
"word": "ความดำ"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "state or quality of being black",
"word": "karalık"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "state or quality of being black",
"word": "siyahlık"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "state or quality of being black",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "düwch"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "result or product",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "negror"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "result or product",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "dubh"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "result or product",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "negror"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "result or product",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "negrura"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"blackness"
],
"word": "blackness"
}
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