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"Khmer",
"character"
],
"word": "មហា"
},
{
"tags": [
"Chakma",
"character"
],
"word": "𑄟"
},
{
"tags": [
"Chakma",
"character"
],
"word": "𑄦"
},
{
"tags": [
"Chakma",
"character"
],
"word": "𑄂"
}
],
"word": "mahā"
}
{
"categories": [
"Pali adjective forms",
"Pali entries with incorrect language header",
"Pali non-lemma forms",
"Pali noun forms"
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pi",
"2": "adjective form"
},
"expansion": "mahā",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Pali",
"lang_code": "pi",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"inflection of mahant:",
"masculine nominative singular"
],
"links": [
[
"mahant",
"mahant#Pali"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"masculine",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"inflection of mahant:",
"masculine/neuter vocative singular"
],
"links": [
[
"mahant",
"mahant#Pali"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"masculine",
"neuter",
"singular",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"Brahmi",
"character"
],
"word": "𑀫"
},
{
"tags": [
"Brahmi",
"character"
],
"word": "𑀳"
},
{
"tags": [
"Brahmi",
"character"
],
"word": "𑀸"
},
{
"tags": [
"Devanagari",
"character"
],
"word": "महा"
},
{
"tags": [
"Bengali"
],
"word": "মহা"
},
{
"tags": [
"Sinhalese",
"character"
],
"word": "මහා"
},
{
"word": "မဟာ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Burmese",
"character"
],
"word": "မႁႃ"
},
{
"word": "มหา"
},
{
"tags": [
"Thai",
"character"
],
"word": "มะหา"
},
{
"tags": [
"Tai-Tham",
"character"
],
"word": "ᨾᩉᩣ"
},
{
"word": "ມຫາ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Lao",
"character"
],
"word": "ມະຫາ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Khmer",
"character"
],
"word": "មហា"
},
{
"tags": [
"Chakma",
"character"
],
"word": "𑄟"
},
{
"tags": [
"Chakma",
"character"
],
"word": "𑄦"
},
{
"tags": [
"Chakma",
"character"
],
"word": "𑄂"
}
],
"word": "mahā"
}
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