See japa on Wiktionary
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "yo",
"3": "jápa"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from Yoruba jápa",
"name": "bor+"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "pcm",
"3": "japa"
},
"expansion": "Nigerian Pidgin japa",
"name": "bor"
}
],
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{
"form": "japas",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "japaing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "japaed",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "japaed",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "japa'd",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "japa'd",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"past2": "japa'd"
},
"expansion": "japa (third-person singular simple present japas, present participle japaing, simple past and past participle japaed or japa'd)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Nigerian English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "44 56",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2023 February 27, Larry Madowo, Bethlehem Feleke, Fridah Okutoyi, “Nigeria's 'japa' trend: Halting exodus of talented Nigerians is a task for the next president.”, in CNN.com, retrieved 2023-03-25",
"text": "I am japa-ing, leaving the country because of the opportunities that are available to me abroad.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"to emigrate from a country for better pay or working conditions."
],
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"links": [
[
"emigrate",
"emigrate"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Nigeria, colloquial) to emigrate from a country for better pay or working conditions."
],
"tags": [
"Nigeria",
"colloquial"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/d͡ʒá.k͡pā/",
"tags": [
"Nigeria"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"tags": [
"abbreviation"
],
"word": "JP"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "jakpa"
}
],
"word": "japa"
}
{
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "yo",
"3": "jápa"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from Yoruba jápa",
"name": "bor+"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "pcm",
"3": "japa"
},
"expansion": "Nigerian Pidgin japa",
"name": "bor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Yoruba jápa and Nigerian Pidgin japa.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "japa (uncountable)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
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{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
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"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
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],
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[
"emigration",
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],
[
"economic",
"economic"
]
],
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"(Nigeria, colloquial) the emigration of Nigerians, usually for economic opportunities."
],
"tags": [
"Nigeria",
"colloquial",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/d͡ʒá.k͡pā/",
"tags": [
"Nigeria"
]
}
],
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{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"tags": [
"abbreviation"
],
"word": "JP"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "jakpa"
}
],
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}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pcm",
"2": "yo",
"3": "jápa"
},
"expansion": "Yoruba jápa",
"name": "bor"
}
],
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"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pcm",
"2": "verb"
},
"expansion": "japa",
"name": "head"
}
],
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"lang_code": "pcm",
"pos": "verb",
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{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Nigerian Pidgin entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 6 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
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"to relocate; to emigrate"
],
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"links": [
[
"relocate",
"relocate"
],
[
"emigrate",
"emigrate"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/d͡ʒá.k͡pā/"
}
],
"word": "japa"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pl"
},
"expansion": "Uncertain",
"name": "unc"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "pl",
"2": "de",
"3": "jappen"
},
"expansion": "German jappen",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "pl",
"2": "nds-de",
"3": "gapen"
},
"expansion": "German Low German gapen",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "pl",
"2": "gml",
"3": "gāpen"
},
"expansion": "Middle Low German gāpen",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Uncertain. Possibly from German jappen, from German Low German gapen, from Middle Low German gāpen.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "pl-decl-noun-f",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "japa",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "japy",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "japy",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "jap",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "japie",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "japom",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "japę",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "japy",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "japą",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "japami",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "japie",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"locative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "japach",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"locative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "japo",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "japy",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "f"
},
"expansion": "japa f",
"name": "pl-noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"ja‧pa"
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"name": "pl-decl-noun-f"
}
],
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "30 66 4 0",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "pl",
"name": "Face",
"orig": "pl:Face",
"parents": [
"Head and neck",
"Body parts",
"Body",
"Anatomy",
"All topics",
"Biology",
"Medicine",
"Fundamental",
"Sciences",
"Healthcare",
"Health"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"human face"
],
"id": "en-japa-pl-noun-7x9eh7Ph",
"links": [
[
"derogatory",
"derogatory"
],
[
"face",
"face"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(colloquial, derogatory) human face"
],
"tags": [
"colloquial",
"derogatory",
"feminine"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Far Masovian Polish",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"human mouth"
],
"id": "en-japa-pl-noun-b1Ba~JNA",
"links": [
[
"derogatory",
"derogatory"
],
[
"mouth",
"mouth"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(colloquial or dialectal, Far Masovian, derogatory) human mouth"
],
"tags": [
"colloquial",
"derogatory",
"dialectal",
"feminine"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Chełmno-Dobrzyń Polish",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Far Masovian Polish",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"human mouth",
"open mouth"
],
"id": "en-japa-pl-noun-38lPXhR4",
"links": [
[
"derogatory",
"derogatory"
],
[
"mouth",
"mouth"
],
[
"humorous",
"humorous"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(colloquial or dialectal, Far Masovian, derogatory) human mouth",
"(Chełmno-Dobrzyń, humorous) open mouth"
],
"tags": [
"colloquial",
"derogatory",
"dialectal",
"feminine",
"humorous"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈja.pa/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈja.pa/",
"note": "Chełmno-Dobrzyń"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈja.pa/",
"note": "Far Masovian"
},
{
"rhymes": "-apa"
}
],
"word": "japa"
}
{
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{
"args": {
"1": "pl"
},
"expansion": "Uncertain",
"name": "unc"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "pl",
"2": "de",
"3": "jappen"
},
"expansion": "German jappen",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "pl",
"2": "nds-de",
"3": "gapen"
},
"expansion": "German Low German gapen",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "pl",
"2": "gml",
"3": "gāpen"
},
"expansion": "Middle Low German gāpen",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Uncertain. Possibly from German jappen, from German Low German gapen, from Middle Low German gāpen.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pl",
"2": "interjection"
},
"expansion": "japa",
"name": "head"
}
],
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"ja‧pa"
],
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"lang_code": "pl",
"pos": "intj",
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{
"categories": [
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"_dis": "79 8 8 5",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Polish entries with incorrect language header",
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"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
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"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "77 8 8 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Polish links with manual fragments",
"parents": [
"Links with manual fragments",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "78 8 8 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Polish links with redundant alt parameters",
"parents": [
"Links with redundant alt parameters",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "78 8 8 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Polish links with redundant wikilinks",
"parents": [
"Links with redundant wikilinks",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"shut up!"
],
"id": "en-japa-pl-intj-qA68S0V3",
"links": [
[
"derogatory",
"derogatory"
],
[
"shut up",
"shut up"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(derogatory) shut up!"
],
"tags": [
"derogatory"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈja.pa/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈja.pa/",
"note": "Chełmno-Dobrzyń"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈja.pa/",
"note": "Far Masovian"
},
{
"rhymes": "-apa"
}
],
"word": "japa"
}
{
"etymology_text": "From japonês (“Japanese”) or Japão (“Japan”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "japas",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "mfbysense"
},
"expansion": "japa m or f by sense (plural japas)",
"name": "pt-noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"ja‧pa"
],
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Brazilian Portuguese",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "40 60",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Portuguese entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "39 61",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Portuguese masculine and feminine nouns by sense",
"parents": [
"Masculine and feminine nouns by sense",
"Nouns by gender",
"Nouns",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "31 69",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Portuguese nouns with irregular gender",
"parents": [
"Nouns with irregular gender",
"Irregular nouns",
"Nouns by inflection type",
"Nouns",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "54 46",
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "pt",
"name": "Japan",
"orig": "pt:Japan",
"parents": [
"Asia",
"Earth",
"Eurasia",
"Nature",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"a person from Japan or of Japanese descent"
],
"id": "en-japa-pt-noun--Zbo7L46",
"links": [
[
"derogatory",
"derogatory"
],
[
"Japan",
"Japan"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Brazil, colloquial, sometimes derogatory) a person from Japan or of Japanese descent"
],
"tags": [
"Brazil",
"by-personal-gender",
"colloquial",
"derogatory",
"feminine",
"masculine",
"sometimes"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈʒa.pɐ/"
}
],
"word": "japa"
}
{
"etymology_text": "From japonês (“Japanese”) or Japão (“Japan”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "japas",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "japa m or f (plural japas)",
"name": "pt-adj"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"ja‧pa"
],
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Brazilian Portuguese",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "54 46",
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "pt",
"name": "Japan",
"orig": "pt:Japan",
"parents": [
"Asia",
"Earth",
"Eurasia",
"Nature",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"english": "two-gender diminutive",
"word": "japinha"
},
{
"tags": [
"augmentative",
"feminine"
],
"word": "japona"
}
],
"glosses": [
"from Japan or of Japanese descent"
],
"id": "en-japa-pt-adj-mUl9Ql8n",
"links": [
[
"derogatory",
"derogatory"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Brazil, colloquial, sometimes derogatory) from Japan or of Japanese descent"
],
"tags": [
"Brazil",
"colloquial",
"derogatory",
"feminine",
"masculine",
"sometimes"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈʒa.pɐ/"
}
],
"word": "japa"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "japas",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "f"
},
"expansion": "japa f (plural japas)",
"name": "es-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 6 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "9 12 15 3 0 0 0 7 10 33 2 8",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 6 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "10 14 13 2 0 0 0 9 12 28 1 11",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "japo"
}
],
"glosses": [
"female equivalent of japo"
],
"id": "en-japa-es-noun-sjcMumJu",
"links": [
[
"japo",
"japo#Spanish"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine",
"form-of"
]
}
],
"word": "japa"
}
{
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "japa",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ English: japa",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ English: japa"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pcm",
"2": "japa",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Nigerian Pidgin: japa",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Nigerian Pidgin: japa"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "yo",
"2": "já",
"3": "pa",
"t1": "to dart, dash",
"t2": "intensifier"
},
"expansion": "já (“to dart, dash”) + pa (“intensifier”)",
"name": "compound"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From já (“to dart, dash”) + pa (“intensifier”). Slang term likely popularised by Naira Marley’s 2018 song, Japa.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "jápa",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "yo",
"2": "verb",
"head": "jápa",
"head2": ""
},
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"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "verb",
"2": "jápa"
},
"expansion": "jápa",
"name": "yo-pos"
}
],
"lang": "Yoruba",
"lang_code": "yo",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Japa japa, japa to London // Japa japa, flee to Canada // Japa japa, flee to Chicago // Japa japa, flee to Africa.",
"ref": "2018, Naira Marley (lyrics and music), “Japa”, 0:52–1:08:",
"text": "Jápa jápa, jápa lọ London // Jápa jápa, já wọ Canada // Jápa jápa, já wọ Chicago // Jápa jápa, já lọ sí Africa",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to run away, to flee"
],
"id": "en-japa-yo-verb-M3zBx8E8",
"links": [
[
"run away",
"run away"
],
[
"flee",
"flee"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "sá lọ"
},
{
"word": "júbà ehoro"
},
{
"word": "họ"
},
{
"word": "na pápá bora"
},
{
"word": "fẹsẹ̀ fẹ́ẹ"
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"word": "na pápá bora"
},
{
"word": "fẹsẹ̀ fẹ́ẹ"
},
{
"word": "sá"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Yoruba colloquialisms",
"Yoruba terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "They want to relocate.",
"text": "Wọ́n fẹ́ jápa.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "You who are emigrating, be careful to not get robbed - Lai Mohammed",
"ref": "2022 November 29, “Ẹ̀yin tí ẹ̀ ń jápa ẹ ṣọ́ra kí wọ́n má baà jà yín ní olè – Lai Mohammed [You who are emigrating, be careful to not get robbed - Lai Mohammed]”, in BBC Yorùbá:",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to japa; to emigrate from a country, typically for better pay or working conditions."
],
"links": [
[
"japa",
"japa#English"
],
[
"emigrate",
"emigrate"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(colloquial) to japa; to emigrate from a country, typically for better pay or working conditions."
],
"tags": [
"colloquial"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/d͡ʒá.k͡pā/"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "já pa"
}
],
"word": "japa"
}
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"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: colloquial or dialectal, Far Masovian, derogatory",
"path": [
"japa"
],
"section": "Polish",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "japa",
"trace": ""
}
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"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: colloquial or dialectal, Far Masovian, derogatory",
"path": [
"japa"
],
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"subsection": "noun",
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"trace": ""
}
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"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: Chełmno-Dobrzyń, humorous",
"path": [
"japa"
],
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"subsection": "noun",
"title": "japa",
"trace": ""
}
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"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: Chełmno-Dobrzyń, humorous",
"path": [
"japa"
],
"section": "Polish",
"subsection": "noun",
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}
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