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"ref": "1662, Adam Olearius, “The Voyages & Travels of J. Albert de Mandelslo [i.e., Johan Albrecht de Mandelslo] […] into the East-Indies. […]”, in John Davies, transl., The Voyages & Travels of the Ambassadors from the Duke of Holstein, to the Great Duke of Muscovy, and the King of Persia. […], London: […] Thomas Dring, and John Starkey, […], →OCLC, book I, page 81:",
"text": "The Serrievvan hath the overſight of the Camels, and the Mahout, that of the Elephants.",
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"ref": "1891 August, Rudyard Kipling, “Moti Guj—Mutineer”, in Life’s Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People, London, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., […], published October 1891, →OCLC, page 307:",
"text": "The very best of all the elephants belonged to the very worst of all the drivers or mahouts; and the superior beast's name was Moti Guj. He was the absolute property of his mahout, which would never have been the case under native rule, for Moti Guj was a creature to be desired by kings; and his name, being translated, meant the Pearl Elephant.",
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"text": "[I]n a cabinet were about a hundred little elephants made of ivory. They were of different sizes, and some had their mahouts or palanquins on their backs.",
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"ref": "2005, Lynette A. Hart, “The Elephant–Mahout Relationship in India and Nepal: A Tourist Attraction”, in John Knight, editor, Animals in Person: Cultural Perspectives on Human–Animal Intimacies, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, published 2020, →ISBN, page 172:",
"text": "Around mid-day elephants were taken into the forest by their mahouts to forage on foods of their choice, and then carried back a supply of food gathered by mahout and elephant. During the relaxed mid-day period, it was common to see mahouts sleeping on their elephants' backs, under an umbrella for shade.",
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"word": "ទ្រមាក់"
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"word": "머하웃"
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"word": "ਮਹੌਤ"
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"masculine"
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"code": "ta",
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"word": "யானைப்பாகன்"
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"code": "te",
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"roman": "gajārōhuḍu",
"sense": "elephant trainer, keeper, and driver",
"word": "గజారోహుడు"
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{
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "māvaṭi",
"sense": "elephant trainer, keeper, and driver",
"word": "మావటి"
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{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "kwaan",
"sense": "elephant trainer, keeper, and driver",
"word": "ควาญ"
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{
"code": "th",
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"sense": "elephant trainer, keeper, and driver",
"word": "ควาญช้าง"
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"word": "مَہَوت"
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{
"code": "ur",
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"sense": "elephant trainer, keeper, and driver",
"word": "مَہاوَت"
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"code": "vi",
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"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"glosses": [
"mahout"
],
"links": [
[
"mahout",
"mahout#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
}
],
"word": "mahout"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "mahouts",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "m"
},
"expansion": "mahout m (plural mahouts)",
"name": "es-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Spanish countable nouns",
"Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
"Spanish lemmas",
"Spanish masculine nouns",
"Spanish nouns"
],
"glosses": [
"mahout"
],
"links": [
[
"mahout",
"mahout#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
}
],
"word": "mahout"
}
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