See maw on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 23:",
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"ref": "2011 October 11, “Jumping Jack Flash (Live 1973)” (track 14), in Brussels Affair (Live 1973), performed by The Rolling Stones:",
"text": "One two! I was born in a cross-fire hurricane. And I howled at the maw in the drivin' rain. But it's all right now, in fact, it's a gas. But it's all right. I'm Jumpin' Jack Flash. It's a gas, gas, gas.",
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"ref": "1998, Charles Gordon Sinclair, International Dictionary of Food and Cooking, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 203:",
"text": "fish maw: The buoyancy bladder of a fish similar in appearance to the mammalian lung. The maw of the conger pike is used in Chinese cooking and is usually sold in dried form which needs reconstituting for about 3 hours and treating with[…]",
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"ref": "2009 April 28, Teresa M. Chen, A Tradition of Soup: Flavors from China's Pearl River Delta, North Atlantic Books, →ISBN, page 70:",
"text": "Fish maw is the commercial term for the dried swim bladders of large fish like sturgeon. Fish maw has no fishy taste and absorbs the flavors of other ingredients.",
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"ref": "2010 08, Eddie Dowd, Traditional Chinese Medicine and Fertility Treatment, Paragon Publishing, →ISBN, page 150:",
"text": "Fish maw (swim bladder) is easily obtainable from your local fishmonger[.]",
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"ref": "2020 May 12, K. Gopakumar, Balagopal Gopakumar, Health Foods from Ocean Animals, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 172:",
"text": "[...] fish maw is light, white in color, and has a spongy texture. Dried fish maw is tasteless which makes it a good complementary addition to many dishes since it can absorb the flavors of other ingredients when it is cooked with other food[…]",
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"2": "တၟံ"
},
"expansion": "Mon တၟံ",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "cbn",
"2": "ฮมอ"
},
"expansion": "Nyah Kur ฮมอ",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "km",
"2": "ថ្ម"
},
"expansion": "Khmer ថ្ម (thmɑɑ)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "bru",
"2": "tamaw"
},
"expansion": "Eastern Bru tamaw",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "bdq",
"2": "tơmo"
},
"expansion": "Bahnar tơmo",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "prk",
"2": "simaw"
},
"expansion": "Parauk simaw",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Khasian *smaːw, from Proto-Austroasiatic *t₂mɔʔ (“stone”). Cognate with Vietnamese đá, Mon တၟံ, Nyah Kur ฮมอ, Khmer ថ្ម (thmɑɑ), Eastern Bru tamaw, Bahnar tơmo, Parauk simaw.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "kha",
"2": "noun",
"g": "m"
},
"expansion": "maw m",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Khasi",
"lang_code": "kha",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Khasi entries with incorrect language header",
"Khasi lemmas",
"Khasi masculine nouns",
"Khasi nouns",
"Khasi terms derived from Proto-Austroasiatic",
"Khasi terms derived from Proto-Khasian",
"Khasi terms inherited from Proto-Austroasiatic",
"Khasi terms inherited from Proto-Khasian",
"Pages with 7 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Parauk terms in nonstandard scripts"
],
"glosses": [
"rock, stone"
],
"links": [
[
"rock",
"rock"
],
[
"stone",
"stone"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/maːu/"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "máw"
}
],
"word": "maw"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "spelling",
"tags": [
"Unified"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "arn",
"2": "noun"
},
"expansion": "maw",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Mapudungun",
"lang_code": "arn",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Mapudungun entries with incorrect language header",
"Mapudungun lemmas",
"Mapudungun nouns",
"Pages with 7 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Unified Mapudungun spellings"
],
"glosses": [
"rain"
],
"links": [
[
"rain",
"rain"
]
]
}
],
"word": "maw"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "noun"
},
"expansion": "maw",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"extra": "stomach",
"word": "mawe"
}
],
"categories": [
"Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"Middle English lemmas",
"Middle English nouns",
"Pages with 7 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of mawe (“stomach”)"
],
"links": [
[
"mawe",
"mawe#Middle_English:_stomach"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"word": "maw"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "so",
"2": "cus-pro",
"3": "*ma?-/*miʔ-"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Cushitic *ma?-/*miʔ-",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "so",
"2": "afa-pro",
"3": "*maʔ-"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Afroasiatic *maʔ-",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "egy",
"2": "mw"
},
"expansion": "Egyptian mw",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "aas",
"2": "maʔa"
},
"expansion": "Aasax maʔa",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "dal",
"2": "maʔa"
},
"expansion": "Dahalo maʔa",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "he",
"2": "מים",
"tr": "máyim"
},
"expansion": "Hebrew מים (máyim)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "syc",
"2": "ܡܝܐ",
"tr": "mayyā"
},
"expansion": "Classical Syriac ܡܝܐ (mayyā)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "so",
"2": "maanyo"
},
"expansion": "Somali maanyo",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "so",
"2": "ma'wi"
},
"expansion": "Somali ma'wi",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Cushitic *ma?-/*miʔ- (to be wet) from Proto-Afroasiatic *maʔ-. Compare Egyptian mw, Aasax maʔa, also Dahalo maʔa; Hebrew מים (máyim),\nClassical Syriac ܡܝܐ (mayyā) and Somali maanyo and Somali ma'wi.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "mawooyin",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "so",
"2": "noun",
"g": "m",
"head": "maw",
"sort": ""
},
"expansion": "maw m",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"g": "m",
"gpl": "m",
"head": "maw",
"pl": "mawooyin"
},
"expansion": "maw m (plural mawooyin m)",
"name": "so-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Somali",
"lang_code": "so",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 7 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Somali entries with incorrect language header",
"Somali lemmas",
"Somali masculine nouns",
"Somali nouns",
"Somali terms derived from Proto-Afroasiatic",
"Somali terms derived from Proto-Cushitic",
"Somali terms inherited from Proto-Afroasiatic",
"Somali terms inherited from Proto-Cushitic",
"Somali terms with redundant head parameter"
],
"glosses": [
"water container, water-jar"
],
"links": [
[
"water",
"water"
],
[
"container",
"container"
],
[
"jar",
"jar"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
}
],
"word": "maw"
}
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