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[
"sound",
"sound#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(onomatopoeia) bell-like resounding sound"
],
"tags": [
"onomatopoeic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ʔɓɔŋ˧˧]",
"tags": [
"Hà-Nội"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ʔɓɔŋ͡m˧˧]",
"tags": [
"Huế"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ʔɓɔŋ˧˧]",
"tags": [
"Hồ-Chí-Minh-City"
]
}
],
"word": "boong"
}
{
"categories": [
"Vietnamese entries with incorrect language header",
"Vietnamese lemmas",
"Vietnamese nouns",
"Vietnamese nouns classified by cái",
"Vietnamese terms borrowed from English",
"Vietnamese terms derived from English",
"Vietnamese terms with IPA pronunciation"
],
"etymology_number": 3,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "vi",
"2": "en",
"3": "bong"
},
"expansion": "English bong",
"name": "bor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From English bong.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "cái",
"tags": [
"classifier"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "vi",
"2": "noun",
"3": "",
"4": "",
"head": "",
"tr": ""
},
"expansion": "boong",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"cls": "cái"
},
"expansion": "(classifier cái) boong",
"name": "vi-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"lang_code": "vi",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"bong (water pipe used to smoke cannabis)"
],
"links": [
[
"bong",
"bong"
],
[
"cannabis",
"cannabis#English"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ʔɓɔŋ˧˧]",
"tags": [
"Hà-Nội"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ʔɓɔŋ͡m˧˧]",
"tags": [
"Huế"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ʔɓɔŋ˧˧]",
"tags": [
"Hồ-Chí-Minh-City"
]
}
],
"word": "boong"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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