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"word": "Adelie penguin"
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"word": "African penguin"
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"word": "banded penguin"
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"word": "brush-tailed penguin"
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"word": "Chatham Island penguin"
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"word": "Chatham Islands penguin"
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"word": "chinstrap penguin"
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"word": "crested penguin"
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"word": "embrace the penguin"
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{
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"word": "emperor penguin"
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{
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"word": "erect-crested penguin"
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"word": "fairy penguin"
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"word": "Fiordland penguin"
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"word": "Galapagos penguin"
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"word": "Galápagos penguin"
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"word": "gentoo penguin"
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"word": "Humboldt penguin"
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"word": "jackass penguin"
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"word": "king penguin"
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"word": "little penguin"
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"word": "macaroni penguin"
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{
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"word": "Magellanic penguin"
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"word": "penguin diagram"
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{
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"word": "penguinery"
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"word": "penguinry"
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"word": "penguin suit"
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"word": "penguin trainer"
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"word": "Ridgen's penguin"
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"word": "rockhopper penguin"
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"word": "royal penguin"
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"word": "Snares penguin"
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"word": "Waitaha penguin"
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"word": "white-flippered penguin"
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"word": "yellow-eyed penguin"
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"2": "পেঙ্গুইন",
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"expansion": "→ Assamese: পেঙ্গুইন (peṅguin)",
"name": "desc"
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"text": "→ Assamese: পেঙ্গুইন (peṅguin)"
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"2": "ပင်ဂွင်",
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"expansion": "→ Burmese: ပင်ဂွင် (panggwang)",
"name": "desc"
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],
"text": "→ Burmese: ပင်ဂွင် (panggwang)"
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"1": "haw",
"2": "penekuina",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Hawaiian: penekuina",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Hawaiian: penekuina"
},
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"depth": 1,
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"1": "ja",
"2": "ペンギン",
"bor": "1",
"tr": "pengin"
},
"expansion": "→ Japanese: ペンギン (pengin)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Japanese: ペンギン (pengin)"
},
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"args": {
"1": "km",
"2": "ភេនឃ្វីន",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Khmer: ភេនឃ្វីន (pheinkhviin)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Khmer: ភេនឃ្វីន (pheinkhviin)"
},
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"args": {
"1": "ko",
"2": "펭귄",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Korean: 펭귄 (penggwin)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Korean: 펭귄 (penggwin)"
},
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"templates": [
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"args": {
"1": "th",
"2": "เพนกวิน",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Thai: เพนกวิน (pen-gwîn)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Thai: เพนกวิน (pen-gwîn)"
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"2": "pengwin",
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"expansion": "→ Welsh: pengwin",
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"etymology_text": "Unknown; first attested in the 16th century in reference to the auk of the Northern hemisphere; the word was later applied to the superficially similar birds of the Southern hemisphere (as was woggin). Possibly from Welsh pen (“head”) and gwyn (“white”), or from Latin pinguis (“fat”). See citations and the Wikipedia page.\n(nun): Because of the often black-and-white habit, resembling the bird's colors.",
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"ref": "1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels, section I",
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"Any of several flightless sea birds, of order Sphenisciformes, found in the Southern Hemisphere, marked by their usual upright stance, walking on short legs, and (generally) their stark black and white plumage."
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"code": "ady",
"lang": "Adyghe",
"roman": "pinɣvin",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "пингвин"
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"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "pikkewyn"
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"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pinguin"
},
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "biṭrīq",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "بِطْرِيق"
},
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"code": "arz",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "baṭrīq",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
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"masculine"
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"word": "بطريق"
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"code": "acw",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "baṭrīg",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"Hijazi-Arabic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "بَطْريق"
},
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"code": "an",
"lang": "Aragonese",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pingüino"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "pingvin",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "պինգվին"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "antʻewuk",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "անթեւուկ"
},
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"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "as",
"lang": "Assamese",
"roman": "peṅguin",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "পেঙ্গুইন"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "ast",
"lang": "Asturian",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pingüín"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "pinqvin"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "pinguino"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "pinhvín",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "пінгві́н"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "peṅguin",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "পেঙ্গুইন"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pingvín",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "пингви́н"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "my",
"lang": "Burmese",
"roman": "panggwang",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "ပင်ဂွင်"
},
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"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pingüí"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "nhn",
"lang": "Central Nahuatl",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "michtototl"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "企鵝"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "kei⁵ ngo⁴",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "企鹅"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "hak",
"lang": "Hakka Chinese",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "企鵝"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "hak",
"lang": "Hakka Chinese",
"roman": "khî-ngò",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "企鹅"
},
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"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "nan-hbl",
"lang": "Chinese",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"Hokkien"
],
"word": "徛鵝"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "nan-hbl",
"lang": "Chinese",
"roman": "zh-min-nan",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"Hokkien"
],
"word": "徛鹅"
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"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "nan-hbl",
"lang": "Chinese",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
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"word": "企鵝"
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"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "nan-hbl",
"lang": "Chinese",
"roman": "khì-gô",
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"tags": [
"Hokkien"
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"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "企鵝"
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{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "qǐ'é",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "企鹅"
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"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "wuu",
"lang": "Wu Chinese",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "企鵝"
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{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "wuu",
"lang": "Wu Chinese",
"roman": "⁵chi-ngu",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "企鹅"
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "tučňák"
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"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "pingvin"
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{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "dv",
"lang": "Dhivehi",
"roman": "pen̊guin̊",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "ޕެންގުއިން"
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"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "nl",
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"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
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"word": "pinguïn"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "vetgans"
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{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "myv",
"lang": "Erzya",
"roman": "ejmaćej",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "эймацей"
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{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "pingveno"
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{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "pingviin"
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{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
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"word": "pingvin"
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{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "pingviini"
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{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "manchot"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"informal",
"masculine"
],
"word": "pingouin"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pingüín"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ṗingvini",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "პინგვინი"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Pinguin"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "pigkouínos",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "πιγκουίνος"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "gu",
"lang": "Gujarati",
"roman": "peṅgvin",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "પેંગ્વિન"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "haw",
"lang": "Hawaiian",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "manu-hele-kū"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "haw",
"lang": "Hawaiian",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "manuhelekū"
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{
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"code": "haw",
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"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "penekuina"
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{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "pingvín",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
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"word": "פִּינְגְּוִין"
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"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "peṅguin",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "पेंगुइन"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "pingvin"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mörgæs"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "pinguino"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "pinguin"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "piongain"
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{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pinguino"
},
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"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "pengin",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "ペンギン"
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"alt": "じんちょう",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "jinchō",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"rare"
],
"word": "人鳥"
},
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"alt": "きが",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
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"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "企鵝"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "piñvin",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "пингвин"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "pheinkhviin",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "ភេនឃ្វីន"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "penggwin",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "펭귄"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "ky",
"lang": "Kyrgyz",
"roman": "pingvin",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "пингвин"
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{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "ky",
"lang": "Kyrgyz",
"roman": "karabat",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "карабат"
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{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "lo",
"lang": "Lao",
"roman": "nok khǭ kān",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "ນົກຄໍກ່ານ"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "lo",
"lang": "Lao",
"roman": "hān ying yī",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "ຫ່ານຢິ່ງຢີ້"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pingvīns"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pingvinas"
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{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "nds",
"lang": "Low German",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Pinguien"
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{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "pingvín",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "пингви́н"
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{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "penguin"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "mt",
"lang": "Maltese",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pengwin"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "arn",
"lang": "Mapudungun",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "pachanka"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "ocon šuvuu",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "оцон шувуу"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "pingvin",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "пингвин"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "javgan galuu",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"China",
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "явган галуу"
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{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "očoŋ sibaɣu",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"Mongolian"
],
"word": "ᠣᠴᠣᠩ ᠰᠢᠪᠠᠭᠤ"
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{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "yabaɣan ɣalaɣu",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"Mongolian"
],
"word": "ᠶᠠᠪᠠᠭᠠᠨ ᠭᠠᠯᠠᠭᠤ"
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{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "nhn",
"lang": "Nahuatl",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "michtototl"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "nv",
"lang": "Navajo",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "tsídii naʼałkʼaiʼí"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pîngouîn"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pingvin"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "ps",
"lang": "Pashto",
"roman": "pangwín",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "پنګوين"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "pangu'an",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "پنگوئن"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pingwin"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bezlotek"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pinguim"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pinguin"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pingvín",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "пингви́н"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "пѝнгвӣн"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "pìngvīn"
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{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tučniak"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pingvin"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pingüino"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "ngwini"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "pengwini"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "pingvin"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "pingguwino"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "tg",
"lang": "Tajik",
"roman": "pingvin",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "пингвин"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "tt",
"lang": "Tatar",
"roman": "pingwin",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "пингвин"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "pen-gwîn",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "เพนกวิน"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "penguen"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "karabat"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "tk",
"lang": "Turkmen",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "pingwin"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "pinhvín",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "пінгві́н"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "penguin",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "پنگوئن"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "ug",
"lang": "Uyghur",
"roman": "pin'gëwin",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "پىنگېۋىن"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "pingvin"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "chim cánh cụt"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "chim cụt cánh"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "pinguen"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pengwin"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "pengwiniaid"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "xh",
"lang": "Xhosa",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "oonombombiya"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "yag",
"lang": "Yámana",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "ŝúŝa"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "pingvin",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "פּינגווין"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "zza",
"lang": "Zazaki",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "penguen (diq)"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "za",
"lang": "Zhuang",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "gingoz"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 24 0 3 4 2",
"code": "zu",
"lang": "Zulu",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"class-5"
],
"word": "iphengwini"
}
]
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"ref": "1772 March, “Account of the Settlement of the Malouines”, in The Gentleman's and London Magazine, page 166",
"text": "This last species of penguin, or auk, seems to be the same with the alca cirrhata of Dr. Pallis, Spicileg. Zool. Fasc. v. p. 7. tab. i. & v. fig. 1–3. F.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1885, Journal of the American Geographical Society of New York",
"text": "More than a hundred years ago, for example, was seen the last of the great wingless penguins or auks, which early writers quaintly called \" wobble-birds.\"",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An auk (sometimes especially a great auk), a bird of the Northern Hemisphere."
],
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[
"auk",
"auk"
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[
"great auk",
"great auk"
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[
"Northern Hemisphere",
"Northern Hemisphere"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete or historical) An auk (sometimes especially a great auk), a bird of the Northern Hemisphere."
],
"tags": [
"historical",
"obsolete"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"glosses": [
"A nun."
],
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[
"nun",
"nun"
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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang) A nun."
],
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"slang"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Juggling",
"orig": "en:Juggling",
"parents": [
"Games",
"Recreation",
"Human activity",
"Human behaviour",
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A type of catch where the palm of the hand is facing towards the leg with the arm stretched downward, resembling the flipper of a penguin."
],
"id": "en-penguin-en-noun--fc7kEbu",
"links": [
[
"juggling",
"juggling#Noun"
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],
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"(juggling) A type of catch where the palm of the hand is facing towards the leg with the arm stretched downward, resembling the flipper of a penguin."
],
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"arts",
"hobbies",
"juggling",
"lifestyle",
"performing-arts",
"sports"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
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{
"ref": "1803, Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, Letter 4, p. 82",
"text": "These productive patches, and the houses, were each surrounded by a fence, made of a prickly shrub, called the Pinguin, which propagates itself with great rapidity.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A spiny bromeliad with egg-shaped fleshy fruit, Bromelia pinguin."
],
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[
"spiny",
"spiny"
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[
"bromeliad",
"bromeliad"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "British English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Military",
"orig": "en:Military",
"parents": [
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1942, Hermann Hagedorn, Sunward I've Climbed, page 143",
"text": "Although it is a permanent R.A.F. station (pre-war, that is), we meander about, even in the Mess, in battle dress and flying boots, sweaters, etc., much to the disgust of some of the more dignified 'penguins' […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1994, Monty Berger, Invasions without tears: the story of Canada's top-scoring Spitfire wing in Europe during the Second World War, →LCCN, page xi",
"text": "Notwithstanding his elevated status as the wing’s Senior Intelligence Officer, Monty, too, was a “penguin,” equal in that respect to an armament assistant, airframe mechanic, pigeon loftsman or any of the seventy-odd ground trades listed by the Royal Canadian Air Force at the war’s end.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2015 June 1, Kate Christie, In the Company of Women, Bella Books, →OCLC",
"text": "She may have been a “penguin”—an Air Force service member who didn't fly—but it sure beat being at home, as Brady had pointed out.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2019 November 5, Derek Esp, An Adventure in Education: The Autobiography of an Accidental Career in Education, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →OCLC, page 46",
"text": "This was to be my home for three months where ground officer cadets, referred to colloquially as ‘penguins’ were trained.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"A member of the air force who does not fly aircraft."
],
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"military",
"military"
],
[
"air force",
"air force"
],
[
"fly",
"fly"
],
[
"aircraft",
"aircraft"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(UK, military, slang) A member of the air force who does not fly aircraft."
],
"tags": [
"UK",
"slang"
],
"topics": [
"government",
"military",
"politics",
"war"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈpɛŋɡwɪn/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈpɪŋɡwɪn/",
"tags": [
"Canada",
"pin-pen-merger"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛŋɡwɪn"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪŋɡwɪn"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-penguin.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0e/En-us-penguin.ogg/En-us-penguin.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/En-us-penguin.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "pinguin"
}
],
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"Penguin#Etymology",
"penguin"
],
"word": "penguin"
}
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"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English refractory feminine rhymes",
"English terms derived from Latin",
"English terms derived from Welsh",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English terms with unknown etymologies",
"Hijazi Arabic terms with redundant script codes",
"Rhymes:English/ɛŋɡwɪn",
"Rhymes:English/ɛŋɡwɪn/2 syllables",
"Rhymes:English/ɪŋɡwɪn",
"Rhymes:English/ɪŋɡwɪn/2 syllables",
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"en:Penguins"
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{
"word": "Adelie penguin"
},
{
"word": "African penguin"
},
{
"word": "banded penguin"
},
{
"word": "brush-tailed penguin"
},
{
"word": "Chatham Island penguin"
},
{
"word": "Chatham Islands penguin"
},
{
"word": "chinstrap penguin"
},
{
"word": "crested penguin"
},
{
"word": "embrace the penguin"
},
{
"word": "emperor penguin"
},
{
"word": "erect-crested penguin"
},
{
"word": "fairy penguin"
},
{
"word": "Fiordland penguin"
},
{
"word": "Galapagos penguin"
},
{
"word": "Galápagos penguin"
},
{
"word": "gentoo penguin"
},
{
"word": "Humboldt penguin"
},
{
"word": "jackass penguin"
},
{
"word": "king penguin"
},
{
"word": "little penguin"
},
{
"word": "macaroni penguin"
},
{
"word": "Magellanic penguin"
},
{
"word": "penguin diagram"
},
{
"word": "penguinery"
},
{
"word": "penguinry"
},
{
"word": "penguin suit"
},
{
"word": "penguin trainer"
},
{
"word": "Ridgen's penguin"
},
{
"word": "rockhopper penguin"
},
{
"word": "royal penguin"
},
{
"word": "Snares penguin"
},
{
"word": "Waitaha penguin"
},
{
"word": "white-flippered penguin"
},
{
"word": "yellow-eyed penguin"
}
],
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{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "as",
"2": "পেঙ্গুইন",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Assamese: পেঙ্গুইন (peṅguin)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Assamese: পেঙ্গুইন (peṅguin)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "my",
"2": "ပင်ဂွင်",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Burmese: ပင်ဂွင် (panggwang)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Burmese: ပင်ဂွင် (panggwang)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "haw",
"2": "penekuina",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Hawaiian: penekuina",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Hawaiian: penekuina"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ja",
"2": "ペンギン",
"bor": "1",
"tr": "pengin"
},
"expansion": "→ Japanese: ペンギン (pengin)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Japanese: ペンギン (pengin)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "km",
"2": "ភេនឃ្វីន",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Khmer: ភេនឃ្វីន (pheinkhviin)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Khmer: ភេនឃ្វីន (pheinkhviin)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ko",
"2": "펭귄",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Korean: 펭귄 (penggwin)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Korean: 펭귄 (penggwin)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "th",
"2": "เพนกวิน",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Thai: เพนกวิน (pen-gwîn)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Thai: เพนกวิน (pen-gwîn)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "cy",
"2": "pengwin",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Welsh: pengwin",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Welsh: pengwin"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en"
},
"expansion": "Unknown",
"name": "unk"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "woggin"
},
"expansion": "woggin",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "cy",
"3": "pen",
"4": "",
"5": "head"
},
"expansion": "Welsh pen (“head”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "cy",
"2": "gwyn",
"3": "",
"4": "white"
},
"expansion": "gwyn (“white”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "pinguis",
"4": "",
"5": "fat"
},
"expansion": "Latin pinguis (“fat”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nun"
},
"expansion": "(nun):",
"name": "sense"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Unknown; first attested in the 16th century in reference to the auk of the Northern hemisphere; the word was later applied to the superficially similar birds of the Southern hemisphere (as was woggin). Possibly from Welsh pen (“head”) and gwyn (“white”), or from Latin pinguis (“fat”). See citations and the Wikipedia page.\n(nun): Because of the often black-and-white habit, resembling the bird's colors.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "penguins",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "penguin (plural penguins)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels, section I",
"text": "Here are also birds cal'd Pen-gwins (white-head in Welch) like Pigmies walking upright, their finns or wings hanging very orderly downe like sleeves […]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Any of several flightless sea birds, of order Sphenisciformes, found in the Southern Hemisphere, marked by their usual upright stance, walking on short legs, and (generally) their stark black and white plumage."
],
"links": [
[
"flightless",
"flightless"
],
[
"sea bird",
"sea bird"
],
[
"order",
"order"
],
[
"Sphenisciformes",
"Sphenisciformes#Translingual"
],
[
"Southern Hemisphere",
"Southern Hemisphere"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with historical senses",
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1772 March, “Account of the Settlement of the Malouines”, in The Gentleman's and London Magazine, page 166",
"text": "This last species of penguin, or auk, seems to be the same with the alca cirrhata of Dr. Pallis, Spicileg. Zool. Fasc. v. p. 7. tab. i. & v. fig. 1–3. F.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1885, Journal of the American Geographical Society of New York",
"text": "More than a hundred years ago, for example, was seen the last of the great wingless penguins or auks, which early writers quaintly called \" wobble-birds.\"",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An auk (sometimes especially a great auk), a bird of the Northern Hemisphere."
],
"links": [
[
"auk",
"auk"
],
[
"great auk",
"great auk"
],
[
"Northern Hemisphere",
"Northern Hemisphere"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete or historical) An auk (sometimes especially a great auk), a bird of the Northern Hemisphere."
],
"tags": [
"historical",
"obsolete"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English slang"
],
"glosses": [
"A nun."
],
"links": [
[
"nun",
"nun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang) A nun."
],
"tags": [
"slang"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Juggling"
],
"glosses": [
"A type of catch where the palm of the hand is facing towards the leg with the arm stretched downward, resembling the flipper of a penguin."
],
"links": [
[
"juggling",
"juggling#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(juggling) A type of catch where the palm of the hand is facing towards the leg with the arm stretched downward, resembling the flipper of a penguin."
],
"topics": [
"arts",
"hobbies",
"juggling",
"lifestyle",
"performing-arts",
"sports"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1803, Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, Letter 4, p. 82",
"text": "These productive patches, and the houses, were each surrounded by a fence, made of a prickly shrub, called the Pinguin, which propagates itself with great rapidity.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A spiny bromeliad with egg-shaped fleshy fruit, Bromelia pinguin."
],
"links": [
[
"spiny",
"spiny"
],
[
"bromeliad",
"bromeliad"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"British English",
"English slang",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned",
"en:Military"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1942, Hermann Hagedorn, Sunward I've Climbed, page 143",
"text": "Although it is a permanent R.A.F. station (pre-war, that is), we meander about, even in the Mess, in battle dress and flying boots, sweaters, etc., much to the disgust of some of the more dignified 'penguins' […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1994, Monty Berger, Invasions without tears: the story of Canada's top-scoring Spitfire wing in Europe during the Second World War, →LCCN, page xi",
"text": "Notwithstanding his elevated status as the wing’s Senior Intelligence Officer, Monty, too, was a “penguin,” equal in that respect to an armament assistant, airframe mechanic, pigeon loftsman or any of the seventy-odd ground trades listed by the Royal Canadian Air Force at the war’s end.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2015 June 1, Kate Christie, In the Company of Women, Bella Books, →OCLC",
"text": "She may have been a “penguin”—an Air Force service member who didn't fly—but it sure beat being at home, as Brady had pointed out.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2019 November 5, Derek Esp, An Adventure in Education: The Autobiography of an Accidental Career in Education, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →OCLC, page 46",
"text": "This was to be my home for three months where ground officer cadets, referred to colloquially as ‘penguins’ were trained.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A member of the air force who does not fly aircraft."
],
"links": [
[
"military",
"military"
],
[
"air force",
"air force"
],
[
"fly",
"fly"
],
[
"aircraft",
"aircraft"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(UK, military, slang) A member of the air force who does not fly aircraft."
],
"tags": [
"UK",
"slang"
],
"topics": [
"government",
"military",
"politics",
"war"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈpɛŋɡwɪn/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈpɪŋɡwɪn/",
"tags": [
"Canada",
"pin-pen-merger"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛŋɡwɪn"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪŋɡwɪn"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-penguin.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0e/En-us-penguin.ogg/En-us-penguin.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/En-us-penguin.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "pinguin"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ady",
"lang": "Adyghe",
"roman": "pinɣvin",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "пингвин"
},
{
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "pikkewyn"
},
{
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pinguin"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "biṭrīq",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "بِطْرِيق"
},
{
"code": "arz",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "baṭrīq",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"Egyptian-Arabic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "بطريق"
},
{
"code": "acw",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "baṭrīg",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"Hijazi-Arabic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "بَطْريق"
},
{
"code": "an",
"lang": "Aragonese",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pingüino"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "pingvin",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "պինգվին"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "antʻewuk",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "անթեւուկ"
},
{
"code": "as",
"lang": "Assamese",
"roman": "peṅguin",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "পেঙ্গুইন"
},
{
"code": "ast",
"lang": "Asturian",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pingüín"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "pinqvin"
},
{
"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "pinguino"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "pinhvín",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "пінгві́н"
},
{
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "peṅguin",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "পেঙ্গুইন"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pingvín",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "пингви́н"
},
{
"code": "my",
"lang": "Burmese",
"roman": "panggwang",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "ပင်ဂွင်"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pingüí"
},
{
"code": "nhn",
"lang": "Central Nahuatl",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "michtototl"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "企鵝"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "kei⁵ ngo⁴",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "企鹅"
},
{
"code": "hak",
"lang": "Hakka Chinese",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "企鵝"
},
{
"code": "hak",
"lang": "Hakka Chinese",
"roman": "khî-ngò",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "企鹅"
},
{
"code": "nan-hbl",
"lang": "Chinese",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"Hokkien"
],
"word": "徛鵝"
},
{
"code": "nan-hbl",
"lang": "Chinese",
"roman": "zh-min-nan",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"Hokkien"
],
"word": "徛鹅"
},
{
"code": "nan-hbl",
"lang": "Chinese",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"Hokkien"
],
"word": "企鵝"
},
{
"code": "nan-hbl",
"lang": "Chinese",
"roman": "khì-gô",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"Hokkien"
],
"word": "企鹅"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "企鵝"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "qǐ'é",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "企鹅"
},
{
"code": "wuu",
"lang": "Wu Chinese",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "企鵝"
},
{
"code": "wuu",
"lang": "Wu Chinese",
"roman": "⁵chi-ngu",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "企鹅"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tučňák"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "pingvin"
},
{
"code": "dv",
"lang": "Dhivehi",
"roman": "pen̊guin̊",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "ޕެންގުއިން"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pinguïn"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "vetgans"
},
{
"code": "myv",
"lang": "Erzya",
"roman": "ejmaćej",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "эймацей"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "pingveno"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "pingviin"
},
{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pingvin"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "pingviini"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "manchot"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"informal",
"masculine"
],
"word": "pingouin"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pingüín"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ṗingvini",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "პინგვინი"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Pinguin"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "pigkouínos",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "πιγκουίνος"
},
{
"code": "gu",
"lang": "Gujarati",
"roman": "peṅgvin",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "પેંગ્વિન"
},
{
"code": "haw",
"lang": "Hawaiian",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "manu-hele-kū"
},
{
"code": "haw",
"lang": "Hawaiian",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "manuhelekū"
},
{
"code": "haw",
"lang": "Hawaiian",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "penekuina"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "pingvín",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "פִּינְגְּוִין"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "peṅguin",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "पेंगुइन"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "pingvin"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mörgæs"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "pinguino"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "pinguin"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "piongain"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pinguino"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "pengin",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "ペンギン"
},
{
"alt": "じんちょう",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "jinchō",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"rare"
],
"word": "人鳥"
},
{
"alt": "きが",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kiga",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "企鵝"
},
{
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "piñvin",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "пингвин"
},
{
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "pheinkhviin",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "ភេនឃ្វីន"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "penggwin",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "펭귄"
},
{
"code": "ky",
"lang": "Kyrgyz",
"roman": "pingvin",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "пингвин"
},
{
"code": "ky",
"lang": "Kyrgyz",
"roman": "karabat",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "карабат"
},
{
"code": "lo",
"lang": "Lao",
"roman": "nok khǭ kān",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "ນົກຄໍກ່ານ"
},
{
"code": "lo",
"lang": "Lao",
"roman": "hān ying yī",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "ຫ່ານຢິ່ງຢີ້"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pingvīns"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pingvinas"
},
{
"code": "nds",
"lang": "Low German",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Pinguien"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "pingvín",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "пингви́н"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "penguin"
},
{
"code": "mt",
"lang": "Maltese",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pengwin"
},
{
"code": "arn",
"lang": "Mapudungun",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "pachanka"
},
{
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "ocon šuvuu",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "оцон шувуу"
},
{
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "pingvin",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "пингвин"
},
{
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "javgan galuu",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"China",
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "явган галуу"
},
{
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "očoŋ sibaɣu",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"Mongolian"
],
"word": "ᠣᠴᠣᠩ ᠰᠢᠪᠠᠭᠤ"
},
{
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "yabaɣan ɣalaɣu",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"Mongolian"
],
"word": "ᠶᠠᠪᠠᠭᠠᠨ ᠭᠠᠯᠠᠭᠤ"
},
{
"code": "nhn",
"lang": "Nahuatl",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "michtototl"
},
{
"code": "nv",
"lang": "Navajo",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "tsídii naʼałkʼaiʼí"
},
{
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pîngouîn"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pingvin"
},
{
"code": "ps",
"lang": "Pashto",
"roman": "pangwín",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "پنګوين"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "pangu'an",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "پنگوئن"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pingwin"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bezlotek"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pinguim"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pinguin"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pingvín",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "пингви́н"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "пѝнгвӣн"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "pìngvīn"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tučniak"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pingvin"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pingüino"
},
{
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "ngwini"
},
{
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "pengwini"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "pingvin"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "pingguwino"
},
{
"code": "tg",
"lang": "Tajik",
"roman": "pingvin",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "пингвин"
},
{
"code": "tt",
"lang": "Tatar",
"roman": "pingwin",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "пингвин"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "pen-gwîn",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "เพนกวิน"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "penguen"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "karabat"
},
{
"code": "tk",
"lang": "Turkmen",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "pingwin"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "pinhvín",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "пінгві́н"
},
{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "penguin",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "پنگوئن"
},
{
"code": "ug",
"lang": "Uyghur",
"roman": "pin'gëwin",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "پىنگېۋىن"
},
{
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "pingvin"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "chim cánh cụt"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "chim cụt cánh"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "pinguen"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pengwin"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "pengwiniaid"
},
{
"code": "xh",
"lang": "Xhosa",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "oonombombiya"
},
{
"code": "yag",
"lang": "Yámana",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "ŝúŝa"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "pingvin",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "פּינגווין"
},
{
"code": "zza",
"lang": "Zazaki",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "penguen (diq)"
},
{
"code": "za",
"lang": "Zhuang",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"word": "gingoz"
},
{
"code": "zu",
"lang": "Zulu",
"sense": "flightless sea bird",
"tags": [
"class-5"
],
"word": "iphengwini"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Penguin#Etymology",
"penguin"
],
"word": "penguin"
}
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"called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
"msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": khiā-gô vs. zh-min-nan",
"path": [
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],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "penguin",
"trace": ""
}
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