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"tr": "čâbok"
},
"expansion": "Persian چابک (čâbok)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "tscamboek"
},
"expansion": "tscamboek",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "chabuk"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of chabuk",
"name": "doublet"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Afrikaans sjambok, from Dutch sjambok, from Javanese cambuk, and as borrowed in Malay: modern Indonesian and Malay, ultimately from Persian چابک (čâbok). Originally spelt in the colonial Dutch transliteration tscamboek. The term was imported by VOC officials, Dutch merchants, the Maardijkers (Maluku (Moluccan) freemen and burghers), and Inlanders (Javanese and other modern Indonesian slaves and political exiles expelled to Dutch South Africa). Doublet of chabuk.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "sjamboks",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "sjambokking",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "sjambokked",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "sjambokked",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "++"
},
"expansion": "sjambok (third-person singular simple present sjamboks, present participle sjambokking, simple past and past participle sjambokked)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To whip with a sjambok; to horsewhip."
],
"links": [
[
"horsewhip",
"horsewhip"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To whip with a sjambok; to horsewhip."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈʃæmbɒk/"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"noun"
],
"word": "sambock"
},
{
"tags": [
"noun"
],
"word": "sambok"
},
{
"tags": [
"noun"
],
"word": "shambock"
},
{
"tags": [
"noun"
],
"word": "shambok"
},
{
"tags": [
"noun"
],
"word": "shambuck"
},
{
"tags": [
"noun"
],
"word": "sjambock"
},
{
"tags": [
"verb"
],
"word": "shambock"
},
{
"tags": [
"verb"
],
"word": "shambok"
},
{
"tags": [
"verb"
],
"word": "sjambock"
},
{
"tags": [
"verb"
],
"word": "sjamboke"
}
],
"word": "sjambok"
}
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