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"2": "trk-oat",
"tr": "kārvān-serā"
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"2": "کاروان",
"t": "caravan; convoy",
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"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *ker- (“army”)",
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"2": "سرای",
"t": "courtyard, hall; dwelling, house; inn; mansion, palace",
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"3": "*terh₂-",
"t": "to cross over; to pass through; to overcome"
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"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *terh₂- (“to cross over; to pass through; to overcome”)",
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"expansion": "Dutch karavanserai",
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"2": "carewansera"
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"expansion": "German Karawanserei",
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"2": "Caravansera"
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"expansion": "Caravansera",
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"1": "it",
"2": "caravanserraglio"
},
"expansion": "Italian caravanserraglio",
"name": "cog"
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"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "carvasarà"
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"args": {
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"expansion": "Portuguese caravançará",
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"args": {
"1": "pt",
"2": "caravançarai"
},
"expansion": "caravançarai",
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"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "caravasar"
},
"expansion": "Spanish caravasar",
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"etymology_text": "Borrowed:\n* from Middle French carvansera, carvassera (modern French caravansérail, carauanserrail (obsolete), caravansara (obsolete)); or\n* directly from its etymon Ottoman Turkish كاروانسَرای (karvanseray), كَروانسَرای (kervanseray) (modern Turkish kervansaray), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (kārvān-serā); or\n* directly from its etymon Persian کاروانسرای (kârvânsarây), from کاروان (kârvân, “caravan; convoy”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ker- (“army”)) + سرای (sarây, “courtyard, hall; dwelling, house; inn; mansion, palace”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *terh₂- (“to cross over; to pass through; to overcome”).\ncognates\n* Dutch karavanserai, carewansera (obsolete)\n* German Karawanserei, Caravansera (obsolete)\n* Italian caravanserraglio, carvasarà (obsolete), carvanserà (obsolete)\n* Portuguese caravançará, caravançarai\n* Spanish caravasar",
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"ca‧ra‧van‧ser‧ai"
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"pos": "noun",
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"word": "caravan"
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1990, Peter Hopkirk, “Rehearsal for the Great Game”, in The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia, London: John Murray, published 1991, page 52",
"text": "Eight days later, after leaving the desert and riding through neatly tended villages and snow-capped mountain scenery, he arrived there, hiring himself a room in a caravanserai near the bazaar.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1997, Ayṣil Tükel Yavuz, “The Concepts that Shape Anatolian Seljuq Caravanserais”, in Gülru Necipoğlu, editor, Muqarnas XIV: An Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islamic World, volume XIV, Leiden: E[vert] J[an] Brill, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 80 and 81",
"text": "[page 80] Research over the last thirty-five years suggests that further research is likely to increase the number of known caravanserais in a good state of preservation. Unfortunately the majority of the caravanserais either had no founding inscription or it has since disappeared, and of the ones that do exist not all mention the type of building. […] [page 81] Caravanserais served caravans, but they also had a multitude of other functions. It is generally agreed that they continued the function of the ribats in Transoxania, and therefore it is taken for granted that they had military uses.",
"type": "quotation"
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"glosses": [
"A roadside inn, usually having a central courtyard where caravans (see sense 3) can rest, providing accommodation for travellers along trade routes in Asia and North Africa."
],
"id": "en-caravanserai-en-noun-en:inn",
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"roadside",
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],
[
"inn",
"inn#Noun"
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[
"central",
"central#Adjective"
],
[
"courtyard",
"courtyard"
],
[
"caravans",
"caravan#Noun"
],
[
"rest",
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],
[
"providing",
"provide"
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[
"accommodation",
"accommodation"
],
[
"traveller",
"traveller"
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"trade routes",
"trade routes"
],
[
"Asia",
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],
[
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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(chiefly historical) A roadside inn, usually having a central courtyard where caravans (see sense 3) can rest, providing accommodation for travellers along trade routes in Asia and North Africa."
],
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],
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"_dis1": "45 4 14 37",
"sense": "inn for caravans",
"word": "lodging place"
}
],
"tags": [
"historical"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "71 9 5 15",
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "karvanserai"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 9 5 15",
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "karvansaraj"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 9 5 15",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "kārwānsarā",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "كَارْوَانْسَرَا"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 9 5 15",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ḵān",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "خَان"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 9 5 15",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "kʻarvansara",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "քարվանսարա"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 9 5 15",
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "karvansara"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 9 5 15",
"code": "ba",
"lang": "Bashkir",
"roman": "qarawanharay",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "ҡарауанһарай"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 9 5 15",
"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "karabansaraia"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 9 5 15",
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "kêrabhanśorai",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "ক্যারাভানসরাই"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 9 5 15",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "kervansaráj",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "кервансара́й"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 9 5 15",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "caravanserrall"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 9 5 15",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "商隊旅館"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 9 5 15",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "shāngduì lǚguǎn",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "商队旅馆"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 9 5 15",
"code": "crh",
"lang": "Crimean Tatar",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "kervansaray"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 9 5 15",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "karavansaraj"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 9 5 15",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "karavanserai"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 9 5 15",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "karavanestation"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 9 5 15",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "karavanserai"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 9 5 15",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "karavanserajo"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 9 5 15",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "karavaaniseralji"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 9 5 15",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "caravansérail"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 9 5 15",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "caravasar"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 9 5 15",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "karvasla",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "ქარვასლა"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 9 5 15",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Karawanserei"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 9 5 15",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "karavanserái",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "καραβανσεράι"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 9 5 15",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "חאן"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 9 5 15",
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "kārvā̃ sarāy",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "कारवां सराय"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 9 5 15",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "karavánszeráj"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 9 5 15",
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "karavanserayo"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 9 5 15",
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "karavanserai"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 9 5 15",
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "karavansari"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 9 5 15",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "caravanserraglio"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 9 5 15",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kyarabansarai",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "キャラバンサライ"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 9 5 15",
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "keruen sarai",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "керуен сарай"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 9 5 15",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "kaereobaenseorai",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "캐러밴서라이"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 9 5 15",
"code": "kum",
"lang": "Kumyk",
"roman": "keriwansaray",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "керивансарай"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 9 5 15",
"code": "ckb",
"lang": "Central Kurdish",
"roman": "karwansera",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "کاروانسەرا"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 9 5 15",
"code": "kmr",
"lang": "Northern Kurdish",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "karwansera"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 9 5 15",
"code": "kmr",
"lang": "Northern Kurdish",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"tags": [
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"word": "karwanseray"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 9 5 15",
"code": "ky",
"lang": "Kyrgyz",
"roman": "kerben-saray",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "кербен-сарай"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 9 5 15",
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "karavansarajus"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 9 5 15",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "karvansaraj",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "карвансарај"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 9 5 15",
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "karavaneserai"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 9 5 15",
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "karavane-serai"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 9 5 15",
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "karavanserai"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 9 5 15",
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "karavane-serai"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 9 5 15",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "caravanserralh"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 9 5 15",
"code": "ps",
"lang": "Pashto",
"roman": "kārwānsarãy",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "کاروان سراى"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 9 5 15",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "kârvân-sarâ",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "کاروانسرا"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 9 5 15",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "kârevânsarây",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "کاروانسرای"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 9 5 15",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "tim",
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"ref": "1997, Ayṣil Tükel Yavuz, “The Concepts that Shape Anatolian Seljuq Caravanserais”, in Gülru Necipoğlu, editor, Muqarnas XIV: An Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islamic World, volume XIV, Leiden: E[vert] J[an] Brill, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 80 and 81",
"text": "[page 80] Research over the last thirty-five years suggests that further research is likely to increase the number of known caravanserais in a good state of preservation. Unfortunately the majority of the caravanserais either had no founding inscription or it has since disappeared, and of the ones that do exist not all mention the type of building. […] [page 81] Caravanserais served caravans, but they also had a multitude of other functions. It is generally agreed that they continued the function of the ribats in Transoxania, and therefore it is taken for granted that they had military uses.",
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"text": "Casting my fortunes at Mrs. Thompson's, I soon became initiated into the etiquette and usage of that polite caravansary; and I now write of that era of two-pronged forks, and when \"saveall\" was the choicest dish, and the observances at the table not altogether Chesterfieldian.",
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"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "ক্যারাভানসরাই"
},
{
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"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"tags": [
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"word": "商隊旅館"
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"word": "商队旅馆"
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"word": "karavanserai"
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"word": "karavanserai"
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"word": "karavanserajo"
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"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
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"code": "ka",
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"word": "ქარვასლა"
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"word": "חאן"
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"word": "कारवां सराय"
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"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
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"code": "it",
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"code": "ja",
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"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
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},
{
"code": "ko",
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"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "캐러밴서라이"
},
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"code": "kum",
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"code": "ckb",
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"code": "kmr",
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"code": "oc",
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"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "کاروانسرا"
},
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"code": "fa",
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"word": "کاروانسرای"
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"code": "fa",
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"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
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"masculine"
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"code": "pt",
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"masculine"
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"code": "pt",
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"code": "ru",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "караван-сара́й"
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"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
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],
"word": "каравансара́й"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"tags": [
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"masculine"
],
"word": "каравансарај"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "karavansaraj"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "karavanserail"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "karavanseraj"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "caravasar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "caravansaray"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "karavanseraj"
},
{
"code": "tg",
"lang": "Tajik",
"roman": "korvonsaroy",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "корвонсарой"
},
{
"code": "ta",
"lang": "Tamil",
"roman": "kēravaṉcerāy",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "கேரவன்செராய்"
},
{
"code": "tt",
"lang": "Tatar",
"roman": "kärwansaray",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "кәрвансарай"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "สถานีคาราวาน"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "kervansaray"
},
{
"code": "tk",
"lang": "Turkmen",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "kerwensaraý"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "karaván-saráj",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "карава́н-сара́й"
},
{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "kārvā̃ sarāy",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "کارواں سرائے"
},
{
"code": "ug",
"lang": "Uyghur",
"roman": "karwan saray",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "كارۋان ساراي"
},
{
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "karvonsaroy"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "karovöp"
},
{
"code": "fy",
"lang": "West Frisian",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "karavaanseray"
},
{
"code": "fy",
"lang": "West Frisian",
"sense": "roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest",
"word": "karavanseray"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"english": "resting place",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "place resembling a caravanserai (sense 1) as being a place for resting temporarily, or a meeting place",
"word": "levähdyspaikka"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"english": "meeting place",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "place resembling a caravanserai (sense 1) as being a place for resting temporarily, or a meeting place",
"word": "kohtauspaikka"
}
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"genitive",
"singular"
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},
{
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},
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"Romanian terms derived from French",
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