See gunfire on Wiktionary
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"sense": "shots from guns",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sparo"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "shots from guns",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "schioppo"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "shots from guns",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fucilata"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "shots from guns",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "schioppettata"
},
{
"alt": "じゅうか",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "jūka",
"sense": "shots from guns",
"word": "銃火"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "shots from guns",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "geværild"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "shots from guns",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "geværeld"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "shots from guns",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ogień"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "shots from guns",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tiroteio"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "strelʹba",
"sense": "shots from guns",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "стрельба"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ogonʹ",
"sense": "shots from guns",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "огонь"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "shots from guns",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "gevärseld"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "huǒqì zuòzhàn",
"sense": "use of gunpowder-type weapons",
"word": "火器作戰 /火器作战"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "use of gunpowder-type weapons",
"word": "tulitus"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "use of gunpowder-type weapons",
"word": "tuli"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "míngpào shíjiān",
"sense": "time of firing of the morning gun or the evening gun",
"word": "鳴炮時間 /鸣炮时间"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "time of firing of the morning gun or the evening gun",
"word": "laukaus"
}
],
"word": "gunfire"
}
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