See gosu on Wiktionary
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"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Pali entries with incorrect language header",
"Pali non-lemma forms",
"Pali noun forms"
],
"form_of": [
{
"extra": "cow, ox, bull",
"word": "go"
}
],
"glosses": [
"locative plural of go (“cow, ox, bull”)"
],
"links": [
[
"go",
"go#Pali"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"locative",
"plural"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"Brahmi",
"character"
],
"word": "𑀕"
},
{
"tags": [
"Brahmi",
"character"
],
"word": "𑁄"
},
{
"tags": [
"Brahmi",
"character"
],
"word": "𑀲"
},
{
"tags": [
"Brahmi",
"character"
],
"word": "𑀼"
},
{
"tags": [
"Devanagari",
"character"
],
"word": "गोसु"
},
{
"tags": [
"Bengali"
],
"word": "গোসু"
},
{
"tags": [
"Sinhalese",
"character"
],
"word": "ගොසු"
},
{
"word": "ဂေါသု"
},
{
"tags": [
"Burmese",
"character"
],
"word": "ၷေႃသု"
},
{
"tags": [
"Thai",
"character"
],
"word": "โคสุ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Tai-Tham",
"character"
],
"word": "ᨣᩮᩤᩈᩩ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Lao",
"character"
],
"word": "ໂຄສຸ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Khmer",
"character"
],
"word": "គោសុ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Chakma",
"character"
],
"word": "𑄉"
},
{
"tags": [
"Chakma",
"character"
],
"word": "𑄮"
},
{
"tags": [
"Chakma",
"character"
],
"word": "𑄥"
},
{
"tags": [
"Chakma",
"character"
],
"word": "𑄪"
}
],
"word": "gosu"
}
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{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1698",
"msg": "unrecognized head form: video games",
"path": [
"gosu"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "gosu",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1698",
"msg": "unrecognized head form: video games",
"path": [
"gosu"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "adjective",
"title": "gosu",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: pre-1917",
"path": [
"gosu"
],
"section": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "gosu",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: pre-1917",
"path": [
"gosu"
],
"section": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "gosu",
"trace": ""
}
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