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"word": "máquina de caminar"
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"ref": "1918, Walter E. Webb, “Add Yourself Up”, in Coast Banker and Pacific Banker and California Banker, page 377",
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"sense": "piece of indoor sporting equipment",
"word": "踏み車"
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"code": "ko",
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"roman": "reonningmeosin",
"sense": "piece of indoor sporting equipment",
"word": "런닝머신"
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"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "podvižna pateka",
"sense": "piece of indoor sporting equipment",
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"roman": "pāygirṇī",
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"sense": "piece of indoor sporting equipment",
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{
"code": "es",
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"code": "sv",
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"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
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"code": "uk",
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"roman": "bihová dorížka",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 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.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.