See peshmerga on Wiktionary
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"tags": [
"Southern-Brazil"
]
}
],
"word": "peshmerga"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "peshmergas",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "mfbysense"
},
"expansion": "peshmerga m or f by sense (plural peshmergas)",
"name": "es-noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"pesh‧mer‧ga"
],
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:Spanish/eɾɡa",
"Rhymes:Spanish/eɾɡa/3 syllables",
"Spanish 3-syllable words",
"Spanish countable nouns",
"Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
"Spanish feminine nouns",
"Spanish lemmas",
"Spanish masculine and feminine nouns by sense",
"Spanish masculine nouns",
"Spanish nouns",
"Spanish nouns with irregular gender",
"Spanish nouns with multiple genders",
"Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation"
],
"glosses": [
"peshmerga"
],
"links": [
[
"peshmerga",
"peshmerga#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"by-personal-gender",
"feminine",
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/peʃˈmeɾɡa/"
},
{
"ipa": "[peʃˈmeɾ.ɣ̞a]"
},
{
"rhymes": "-eɾɡa"
}
],
"word": "peshmerga"
}
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