"houngan" meaning in All languages combined

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      "expansion": "Haitian Creole oungan",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fon",
        "3": "houn",
        "4": "",
        "5": "spirit"
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      "expansion": "Fon houn (“spirit”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "kg",
        "3": "nganga",
        "4": "",
        "5": "high priest"
      },
      "expansion": "Kongo nganga (“high priest”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Haitian Creole oungan, apparently from Fon houn (“spirit”) + Kongo nganga (“high priest”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "houngans",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "houngan (plural houngans)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Voodoo",
          "orig": "en:Voodoo",
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            "Religion",
            "Culture",
            "Society",
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            "Fundamental"
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        {
          "ref": "1953, Maya Deren, Divine Horsemen, McPherson & Company, published 2004, page 48:",
          "text": "The shadow of the houngan, projected from within the tent by the flickering of the candle, dances and glides over the folds of the cloth as he completes his final preparations.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1995, Sidney Mintz & Michel-Rolph Trouillot, in Cosentino (ed.), Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou, South Sea International Press 1998, page 147",
          "text": "By then, estimates of the number of oungans killed in 1986-87 had reached as high as 400."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Kevin Filan, The Haitian Vodou Handbook, Destiny Books, page 16:",
          "text": "From 1751 to 1758, Makandal, a one-armed former slave and houngan, staged a rebellion that claimed some six thousand lives.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008 April 5, Marc Lacey, “A U.S.-Trained Entrepreneur Becomes Voodoo’s Pope”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "Most voodoo priests, known as houngans, operate semi-independently, catering to their followers without much structure.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        "A (male) voodoo priest."
      ],
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          "voodoo",
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          "priest",
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        {
          "english": "the female equivalent",
          "word": "mambo"
        }
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        {
          "word": "oungan"
        }
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        "houngan"
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      "ipa": "/ˈ(h)uŋ.ɡən/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/-ɡæn/"
    }
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  "word": "houngan"
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      "name": "bor"
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    {
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        "1": "en",
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        "3": "houn",
        "4": "",
        "5": "spirit"
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      "expansion": "Fon houn (“spirit”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "kg",
        "3": "nganga",
        "4": "",
        "5": "high priest"
      },
      "expansion": "Kongo nganga (“high priest”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Haitian Creole oungan, apparently from Fon houn (“spirit”) + Kongo nganga (“high priest”).",
  "forms": [
    {
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      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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  "pos": "noun",
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      "word": "mambo"
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          "ref": "1953, Maya Deren, Divine Horsemen, McPherson & Company, published 2004, page 48:",
          "text": "The shadow of the houngan, projected from within the tent by the flickering of the candle, dances and glides over the folds of the cloth as he completes his final preparations.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1995, Sidney Mintz & Michel-Rolph Trouillot, in Cosentino (ed.), Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou, South Sea International Press 1998, page 147",
          "text": "By then, estimates of the number of oungans killed in 1986-87 had reached as high as 400."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Kevin Filan, The Haitian Vodou Handbook, Destiny Books, page 16:",
          "text": "From 1751 to 1758, Makandal, a one-armed former slave and houngan, staged a rebellion that claimed some six thousand lives.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008 April 5, Marc Lacey, “A U.S.-Trained Entrepreneur Becomes Voodoo’s Pope”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "Most voodoo priests, known as houngans, operate semi-independently, catering to their followers without much structure.",
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈ(h)uŋ.ɡən/"
    },
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      "ipa": "/-ɡæn/"
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "oungan"
    }
  ],
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