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"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "a flexible defensive armor",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "armorum"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "verížnica",
"sense": "a flexible defensive armor",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "вери́жница"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "pancirna košula",
"sense": "a flexible defensive armor",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "панцирна кошула"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "a flexible defensive armor",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "ringbrynje"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "a flexible defensive armor",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "brynje"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "a flexible defensive armor",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ringbrynje"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "a flexible defensive armor",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "hlenċa"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "zere",
"sense": "a flexible defensive armor",
"word": "زره"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "a flexible defensive armor",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "kolczuga"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a flexible defensive armor",
"word": "cota de malha"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kolʹčúga",
"sense": "a flexible defensive armor",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "кольчу́га"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "a flexible defensive armor",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "lančana košulja"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "a flexible defensive armor",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "верижњача"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "a flexible defensive armor",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "verižnjača"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a flexible defensive armor",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cota de malla"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "a flexible defensive armor",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "ringbrynja"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "a flexible defensive armor",
"word": "örme zincir"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "kolʹčúha",
"sense": "a flexible defensive armor",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "кольчу́га"
}
],
"word": "chain mail"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English retronyms",
"English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"English uncountable nouns",
"en:Armor",
"en:Post"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_text": "From mail.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "chain mails",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "chain mail (countable and uncountable, plural chain mails)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English collective nouns"
],
"glosses": [
"A chain letter."
],
"links": [
[
"chain letter",
"chain letter"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(sometimes collectively) A chain letter."
],
"tags": [
"collective",
"countable",
"sometimes",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "chain letters collectively",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "ketjukirjeet"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "chain letters collectively",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "forvarduša"
}
],
"word": "chain mail"
}
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