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"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "a curse",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "prokletí"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "a curse",
"word": "kirous"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "a curse",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "imprécation"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "a curse",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "malédiction"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "a curse",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "exécration"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a curse",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Fluch"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "a curse",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "imprecazione"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "a curse",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "imprecātiō"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "a curse",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "escomenja"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "a curse",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "escomenge"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "a curse",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "imprecacion"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prokljátije",
"sense": "a curse",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "прокля́тие"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "a curse",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "förbannelse"
},
{
"code": "txb",
"lang": "Tocharian B",
"sense": "a curse",
"word": "śāp"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "a curse",
"word": "küfür"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "a curse",
"word": "sövgü"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "prokljattja",
"sense": "a curse",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "прокляття"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"imprecation"
],
"word": "imprecation"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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