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"word": "boomerang baby"
},
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"word": "boomerang child"
},
{
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"word": "boomerang dysplasia"
},
{
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"word": "boomerang effect"
},
{
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"word": "boomeranger"
},
{
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"word": "boomerang kick"
},
{
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"word": "boomerang kid"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "boomerang pillow"
}
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"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "xdk",
"3": "bumariny"
},
"expansion": "Dharug bumariny",
"name": "bor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Dharug bumariny.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "boomerangs",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "boomerang (plural boomerangs)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"boo‧me‧rang"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
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"word": "frisbee"
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{
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"word": "woomera"
}
],
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"categories": [
{
"_dis": "26 13 19 7 15 6 6 2 6",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Weapons",
"orig": "en:Weapons",
"parents": [
"Hunting",
"Military",
"Tools",
"Human activity",
"Society",
"Technology",
"Human behaviour",
"All topics",
"Human",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1884, Andrew Lang, “Star Myths”, in Custom and Myth",
"text": "Some resemblance to terrestrial things, it is true, everyone can behold in the heavens. Corona, for example, is like a crown, or, as the Australian black fellows know, it is like a boomerang, and we can understand why they give it the name of that curious curved missile.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1897, Warren Bert Kimberly, History of West Australia",
"text": "With boomerang and spear they hunted the kangaroo and emu, and fought their battles beneath the eucalyptus forests; their minds, fresh, untroubled, contented, oblivious alike of noble ideals and philosophic principles.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"text": "1961, Charlie Drake, song, My Boomerang Won't Come Back,\n\"Don't worry, boy, I know the trick, / And to you I'm gonna show it. / If you want your boomerang to come back, / Well first you've got to... throw it.\""
}
],
"glosses": [
"A flat curved airfoil that spins about an axis perpendicular to the direction of flight, originally used in various parts of the world as a hunting weapon or, in returnable types, for sports or training."
],
"id": "en-boomerang-en-noun-PSCE7m8k",
"links": [
[
"airfoil",
"airfoil"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "kylie"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "adt",
"lang": "Adnyamathanha",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "wadna"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "adt",
"lang": "Adnyamathanha",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "marrawirri"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "adt",
"lang": "Adnyamathanha",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "apiwirlanha"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "boemerang"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "bumerang"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "بوميرانغ"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "بمرنغ"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "كيد"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "bumerang",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "բումերանգ"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "ast",
"lang": "Asturian",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bumerán"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "bumeranq"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "drl",
"lang": "Baagandji",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "wana"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "bcj",
"lang": "Bardi",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "irrgil"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "bjb",
"lang": "Barngarla",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "wadna"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "bumerang"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "bumeraṅ",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "বুমেরাং"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "bumerang",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "бумеранг"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bumerang"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "回飛棒"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "huífēibàng",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "回飞棒"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "回旋鏢"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "huíxuánbiāo",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "回旋镖"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "飛去來器"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "fēiqùláiqì",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "飞去来器"
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{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "飛鏢"
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{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "fēibiāo",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "飞镖"
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{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "回力鏢"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "huílìbiāo",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "回力镖"
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"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "飛旋鏢"
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{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "fēixuánbiāo",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "飞旋镖"
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"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bumerang"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "boomerang"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "xda",
"lang": "Darkinjung",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "barkan"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "xdk",
"lang": "Dharug",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "buumarang"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "boemerang"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "dbl",
"lang": "Dyirbal",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "warrginy"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "aer",
"lang": "Eastern Arrernte",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "alye"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "egy",
"lang": "Egyptian",
"roman": "ꜥꜣm",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "T14-m-M3"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "bumerango"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "bumerang"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "bumerangi"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "boomerang"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "gbu",
"lang": "Gagadu",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "barrgeeli"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "búmerang"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "kld",
"lang": "Gamilaraay",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "barran"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "wrk",
"lang": "Garawa",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "ngubungu"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "bumerangi",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "ბუმერანგი"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Bumerang"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "boúmerangk",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "μπούμερανγκ"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "kky",
"lang": "Guugu Yimidhirr",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "wangi"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "bumerang",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "בּוּמֶרַנְג"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "bumerāṅg",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "बुमेरांग"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "bumeráng"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bjúgverpill"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "bumerango"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "ilo",
"lang": "Ilocano",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "palladaw"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "bumerang"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "boomerang"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bumerang"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "būmeran",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "ブーメラン"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "zku",
"lang": "Kaurna",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "wadna"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "gyd",
"lang": "Kayardild",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "wangalka"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "bumerang",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "부메랑"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "wlg",
"lang": "Kunbarlang",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "pirrikala"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bumerangs"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bumerangas"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "mwf",
"lang": "Murrinh-Patha",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "kuragadha"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "nnr",
"lang": "Narungga",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "wadna"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "jui",
"lang": "Ngadjuri",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "wadna"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "nrl",
"lang": "Ngarluma",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "wirrba,wirri"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "nay",
"lang": "Ngarrindjeri",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "pankety"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "nay",
"lang": "Ngarrindjeri",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "pankatji"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "nay",
"lang": "Ngarrindjeri",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "yereyeraipi"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "nay",
"lang": "Ngarrindjeri",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "tulanggi"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "nay",
"lang": "Ngarrindjeri",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "wanar"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "xul",
"lang": "Ngunawal",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "berra"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bumerang"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bumerang"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "nnv",
"lang": "Nukunu",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "watna"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "بومرنگ"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "pjt",
"lang": "Pitjantjatjara",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "kaḻi"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"tags": [
"inanimate",
"masculine"
],
"word": "bumerang"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bumerangue"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "bumerang"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bumeráng",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "бумера́нг"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bumerang"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bumerán"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "búmeran"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "bumerang"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "haliryo"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "bumeran"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "bumerang"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "bumeránh",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "бумера́нг"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "bumär"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "wmt",
"lang": "Walmajarri",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "karli"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "wmb",
"lang": "Wambaya",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "juguli"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "xwk",
"lang": "Wangkumara",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "pakarranyi"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "wrr",
"lang": "Wardaman",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "bura"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "wbp",
"lang": "Warlpiri",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "jilypirrpa"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "wbp",
"lang": "Warlpiri",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "jurluparli"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "wbp",
"lang": "Warlpiri",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "karli"
},
{
"_dis1": "85 4 3 1 4 2",
"code": "wbp",
"lang": "Warlpiri",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "kurrupardu"
},
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"code": "adt",
"lang": "Adnyamathanha",
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{
"code": "adt",
"lang": "Adnyamathanha",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "apiwirlanha"
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{
"code": "af",
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"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "boemerang"
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{
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"word": "bumerang"
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"code": "ar",
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{
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"word": "բումերանգ"
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"code": "ast",
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{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "bumeranq"
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{
"code": "drl",
"lang": "Baagandji",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "wana"
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"code": "bcj",
"lang": "Bardi",
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"word": "irrgil"
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{
"code": "bjb",
"lang": "Barngarla",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "wadna"
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{
"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
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"word": "bumerang"
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"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
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"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "বুমেরাং"
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "回飛棒"
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{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "huífēibàng",
"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "回飞棒"
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{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
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{
"code": "cmn",
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"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
"word": "飛去來器"
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"code": "cmn",
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"code": "cmn",
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"code": "et",
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{
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{
"code": "wrk",
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{
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"code": "is",
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"code": "ilo",
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{
"code": "id",
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"code": "it",
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"code": "it",
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"code": "gyd",
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"code": "ko",
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"code": "wlg",
"lang": "Kunbarlang",
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"sense": "flat curved airfoil",
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"code": "sk",
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