See wahala on Wiktionary
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},
"expansion": "wàhálà",
"name": "yo-pos"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "wàhálà"
},
"expansion": "wàhálà",
"name": "yo-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Yoruba",
"lang_code": "yo",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 5 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Yoruba entries with incorrect language header",
"Yoruba lemmas",
"Yoruba nouns",
"Yoruba terms borrowed from Hausa",
"Yoruba terms derived from Arabic",
"Yoruba terms derived from Hausa",
"Yoruba terms with IPA pronunciation"
],
"glosses": [
"trouble, problem, difficulty"
],
"links": [
[
"trouble",
"trouble"
],
[
"problem",
"problem"
],
[
"difficulty",
"difficulty"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "ìṣòro"
},
{
"word": "gòòbe"
},
{
"word": "rògbòdìyàn"
},
{
"word": "yánpọnyánrin"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/wà.há.là/"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "وَهَلَ"
},
{
"word": "wàálà"
}
],
"word": "wahala"
}
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