See leme on Wiktionary
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"glosses": [
"rudder (control surface of an aircraft)"
],
"links": [
[
"aeronautics",
"aeronautics"
],
[
"rudder",
"rudder"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(aeronautics) rudder (control surface of an aircraft)"
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"topics": [
"aeronautics",
"aerospace",
"business",
"engineering",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈle.mi/",
"tags": [
"Brazil"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈle.mi/",
"tags": [
"Brazil"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈle.me/",
"tags": [
"Southern-Brazil"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈlɛ.mɨ/",
"tags": [
"Portugal"
]
},
{
"homophone": "lê-me (Brazil)"
},
{
"rhymes": "-emi"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"pt:leme"
],
"word": "leme"
}
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