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"roman": "akkaṛ bakkaṛ bambe bo",
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"word": "अक्कड़ बक्कड़ बम्बे बो"
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"note": "Ec-pec/ecc-pecc, kime-hetsz, holnap-után bejö-hetsz, cér-nára, cine-gére, ugorj, cica, az͜ e-gérre, huss/fuss!",
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"word": "úllen dúllen doff"
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"sense": "similar children's counting-out games in other languages",
"word": "cap cip cup kembang kuncup, kuda lari kejepit pintu"
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"sense": "similar children's counting-out games in other languages",
"word": "ambarabà ciccì coccò"
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"sense": "similar children's counting-out games in other languages",
"word": "(Liguria) igne migne magna mo"
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"word": "akka bakka bonka rakka"
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"word": "enike penike"
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"roman": "dim² zi² bing¹ bing¹, dim² zoek⁶ seoi⁴ jan⁴ zou⁶ daai⁶ bing¹",
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"note": "一二三四五，上山打老虎 (yī èr sān sì wǔ, shàngshān dǎ lǎohǔ, literally “12345, climb a mountain and beat a tiger”)",
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"word": "你拍一，我拍一，一隻小貓坐飛機"
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"sense": "similar children's counting-out games in other languages",
"word": "entten-tentten-teelika-mentten"
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"sense": "similar children's counting-out games in other languages",
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"word": "ene mene mu"
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"roman": "a be ba blom tou kíthe blom",
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"word": "אן דן דינו"
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"roman": "akkaṛ bakkaṛ bambe bo",
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"word": "अक्कड़ बक्कड़ बम्बे बो"
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"note": "Ec-pec/ecc-pecc, kime-hetsz, holnap-után bejö-hetsz, cér-nára, cine-gére, ugorj, cica, az͜ e-gérre, huss/fuss!",
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"sense": "similar children's counting-out games in other languages",
"word": "cap cip cup kembang kuncup, kuda lari kejepit pintu"
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"sense": "similar children's counting-out games in other languages",
"word": "(Liguria) igne migne magna mo"
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"roman": "dochira ni shiyō kana",
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"word": "elle melle deg fortelle"
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"code": "no",
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"word": "akka bakka bonka rakka"
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"code": "no",
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"word": "enike penike"
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"word": "آن مان نواران"
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"word": "entliczek pentliczek czerwony stoliczek na kogo wypadnie na tego bec"
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"word": "uni-duni-tê"
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"code": "ro",
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"word": "an-tan-te"
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"code": "ro",
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"sense": "similar children's counting-out games in other languages",
"word": "ala-bala portocala"
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"roman": "éniki béniki",
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"word": "э́ники бе́ники"
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"code": "ru",
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"word": "э́ни бе́ни"
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"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "similar children's counting-out games in other languages",
"word": "pito, pito, gorgorito"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "similar children's counting-out games in other languages",
"word": "ole, dole, doff"
}
],
"word": "eeny, meeny, miny, moe"
}
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"called_from": "translations/609-20230504",
"msg": "Translation too long compared to word, so it is skipped",
"path": [
"eeny, meeny, miny, moe"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "eeny, meeny, miny, moe",
"trace": ""
}
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