See whare on Wiktionary
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{
"args": {
"1": "ilo",
"2": "balay"
},
"expansion": "Ilocano balay",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "tl",
"2": "bahay"
},
"expansion": "Tagalog bahay",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Polynesian *fale (compare with Tahitian fare, Samoan fale, Tongan fale), from Proto-Central-Eastern Oceanic *vale, from Proto-Oceanic *pale (compare with Fijian vale), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balay (compare with Javanese balé “pavillion, hall”, Malay balai “hall”, Ilocano balay, Tagalog bahay “house”).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "mi",
"2": "noun",
"3": "",
"4": "{{{pl}}}",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "whare",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "whare",
"name": "mi-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Maori",
"lang_code": "mi",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"house"
],
"links": [
[
"house",
"house"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Maori terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_english_offsets": [
[
57,
65
]
],
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
16,
21
],
[
56,
61
]
],
"english": "The nunnery here in Gisborne has closed and the land and building have been sold, the nuns have returned to worldly garments",
"text": "Kua tūtakina te whare none i Tūranga nei, kua hokona te whare me te whenua, ko ngā none kua hoki anō ki te kākahu o te ao.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"any building"
],
"links": [
[
"building",
"building"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Maori terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_english_offsets": [
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0,
20
]
],
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
5,
10
]
],
"english": "People of this house, let us look at this man.",
"text": "E te whare nei, titiro tāua ki te tangata nei.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"people in a house"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"suit (cards)"
],
"links": [
[
"suit",
"suit"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ɸa.re/"
},
{
"ipa": "[fɐ.ɾɛ]"
}
],
"word": "whare"
}
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