See donga on Wiktionary
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"form": "dongától",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "dongáktól",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "dongáé",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"possessed-single",
"possessive",
"predicative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "dongáké",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"possessed-single",
"possessive",
"predicative"
]
},
{
"form": "dongáéi",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"possessed-single",
"possessive",
"predicative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "dongákéi",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"possessed-single",
"possessive",
"predicative"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "hu-pos-tok",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "dongám",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"possessed-single",
"possessive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "dongáim",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"possessed-many",
"possessive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "dongád",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"possessed-single",
"possessive",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "dongáid",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"possessed-many",
"possessive",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "dongája",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"possessed-single",
"possessive",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "dongái",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"possessed-many",
"possessive",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "dongánk",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"plural",
"possessed-single",
"possessive"
]
},
{
"form": "dongáink",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"plural",
"possessed-many",
"possessive"
]
},
{
"form": "dongátok",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"possessed-single",
"possessive",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "dongáitok",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"possessed-many",
"possessive",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "dongájuk",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"possessed-single",
"possessive",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "dongáik",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"possessed-many",
"possessive",
"third-person"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "hu",
"2": "noun",
"3": "",
"4": "",
"5": "plural",
"6": "dongák",
"7": "",
"8": "{{{alt}}}",
"head": "",
"nopalindromecat": ""
},
"expansion": "donga (plural dongák)",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"pl": "dongák"
},
"expansion": "donga (plural dongák)",
"name": "hu-noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"don‧ga"
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "dongá",
"2": "o"
},
"name": "hu-infl-nom"
},
{
"args": {
"1pl_pl": "dongáink",
"1pl_sg": "dongánk",
"1sg_pl": "dongáim",
"1sg_sg": "dongám",
"2pl_pl": "dongáitok",
"2pl_sg": "dongátok",
"2sg_pl": "dongáid",
"2sg_sg": "dongád",
"3pl_pl": "dongáik",
"3pl_sg": "dongájuk",
"3sg_pl": "dongái",
"3sg_sg": "dongája",
"n": "",
"perspron": ""
},
"name": "hu-infl-pos-table"
}
],
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"stave (a slightly bent wooden board that forms the sides and bottom of a larger wooden vessel (e.g. barrel, tub, vat))"
],
"links": [
[
"stave",
"stave"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Hungarian terms with collocations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "barrel vault",
"text": "dongaboltozat",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"barrel, barrellike, arc-shaped"
],
"links": [
[
"barrel",
"barrel"
],
[
"barrellike",
"barrellike"
],
[
"arc",
"arc"
],
[
"shaped",
"shaped"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(by extension, in compound words) barrel, barrellike, arc-shaped"
],
"raw_tags": [
"in compound words"
],
"tags": [
"broadly"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ˈdoŋɡɒ]"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɡɒ"
}
],
"word": "donga"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ja",
"2": "romanization",
"head": "",
"sc": "Latn"
},
"expansion": "donga",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"pos": "romanization",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "どんが"
}
],
"categories": [
"Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
"Japanese non-lemma forms",
"Japanese romanizations",
"Japanese terms with non-redundant manual script codes",
"Pages with 5 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"glosses": [
"Rōmaji transcription of どんが"
],
"links": [
[
"Rōmaji",
"romaji"
],
[
"どんが",
"どんが#Japanese"
]
],
"tags": [
"Rōmaji",
"alt-of",
"romanization"
]
}
],
"word": "donga"
}
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