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"Romanian countable nouns",
"Romanian entries with incorrect language header",
"Romanian feminine nouns",
"Romanian lemmas",
"Romanian nouns",
"Romanian nouns with red links in their headword lines",
"Romanian terms borrowed from French",
"Romanian terms derived from French"
],
"glosses": [
"zenana"
],
"links": [
[
"zenana",
"zenana#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
}
],
"word": "zenana"
}
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