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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "brífy",
"sense": "male underwear",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "бри́фы"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "male underwear",
"word": "slip"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "male underwear",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "calzoncillo"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "male underwear",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "trusa"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "gaang-geeng-nai",
"sense": "male underwear",
"word": "กางเกงใน"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"sense": "male underwear",
"tags": [
"colloquial"
],
"word": "กางเกงลิง"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "male underwear",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "trôns"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "male underwear",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "trônsiau"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"briefs"
],
"word": "briefs"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 1-syllable words",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English non-lemma forms",
"English noun forms",
"English nouns",
"English pluralia tantum",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English verb forms",
"Rhymes:English/iːfs",
"en:Underwear"
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "briefs",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "brief"
}
],
"glosses": [
"third-person singular simple present indicative of brief"
],
"links": [
[
"brief",
"brief#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"indicative",
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/bɹiːfs/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-iːfs"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"briefs"
],
"word": "briefs"
}
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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