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"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "io",
"2": "noun",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "posho",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "posh"
},
"expansion": "posho (plural poshi)",
"name": "io-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Ido",
"lang_code": "io",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Ido entries with incorrect language header",
"Ido lemmas",
"Ido nouns",
"Ido terms derived from Esperanto",
"Ido terms derived from French"
],
"glosses": [
"pocket"
],
"links": [
[
"pocket",
"pocket"
]
]
}
],
"word": "posho"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "loanword",
"2": "Borrowed"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed",
"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sw",
"2": "en",
"3": "portion",
"4": "",
"5": "",
"g": "",
"g2": "",
"g3": "",
"id": "",
"lit": "",
"nocat": "",
"pos": "",
"sc": "",
"sort": "",
"tr": "",
"ts": ""
},
"expansion": "English portion",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sw",
"2": "en",
"3": "portion"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from English portion",
"name": "bor+"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from English portion.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "posho",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sw",
"2": "noun",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "posho",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "n"
},
"expansion": "posho (n class, plural posho)",
"name": "sw-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Swahili",
"lang_code": "sw",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Swahili entries with incorrect language header",
"Swahili lemmas",
"Swahili n class nouns",
"Swahili nouns",
"Swahili terms borrowed from English",
"Swahili terms derived from English",
"Swahili terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Swahili terms with audio links"
],
"glosses": [
"rations, provision"
],
"links": [
[
"rations",
"rations"
],
[
"provision",
"provision"
]
],
"tags": [
"class-10",
"class-9"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈpɔ.ʃɔ/"
},
{
"audio": "Sw-ke-posho.flac",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a0/Sw-ke-posho.flac/Sw-ke-posho.flac.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a0/Sw-ke-posho.flac/Sw-ke-posho.flac.ogg",
"tags": [
"Kenya"
],
"text": "Audio (Kenya)"
}
],
"word": "posho"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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