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"expansion": "ism (plural ismlar)",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "ism (plural ismlar)",
"name": "uz-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Uzbek",
"lang_code": "uz",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"name"
],
"links": [
[
"name",
"name"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"uz:Grammar"
],
"glosses": [
"noun"
],
"links": [
[
"grammar",
"grammar"
],
[
"noun",
"noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(grammar) noun"
],
"topics": [
"grammar",
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"word": "ism"
}
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