See zigzag on Wiktionary
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"form": "zigzagmu",
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"second-person"
]
},
{
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"tags": [
"possessive",
"third-person"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {},
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"name": "id-noun"
}
],
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{
"categories": [
"Indonesian entries with incorrect language header",
"Indonesian lemmas",
"Indonesian nouns",
"Indonesian terms with redundant script codes",
"Pages with 6 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Requests for plural forms in Indonesian entries"
],
"glosses": [
"zigzag"
],
"links": [
[
"zigzag",
"zigzag"
]
]
}
],
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}
{
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{
"args": {
"1": "ro",
"2": "fr",
"3": "zigzag"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from French zigzag",
"name": "bor+"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from French zigzag.",
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{
"form": "zigzaguri",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "ro-noun-n-uri",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "zigzag",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "zigzagul",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"definite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "zigzaguri",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "zigzagurile",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"definite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "zigzag",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"error-unrecognized-form",
"indefinite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "zigzagului",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"error-unrecognized-form",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "zigzaguri",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"error-unrecognized-form",
"indefinite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "zigzagurilor",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"error-unrecognized-form",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "zigzagule",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "zigzagurilor",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "n",
"2": "zigzaguri"
},
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"name": "ro-noun"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"g": "n",
"gpd": "zigzagurilor",
"gpi": "zigzaguri",
"gsd": "zigzagului",
"gsi": "zigzag",
"n": "",
"npd": "zigzagurile",
"npi": "zigzaguri",
"nsd": "zigzagul",
"nsi": "zigzag",
"vp": "zigzagurilor",
"vs": "zigzagule",
"vs2": ""
},
"name": "ro-decl-noun"
}
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"pos": "noun",
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{
"categories": [
"Pages with 6 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Romanian countable nouns",
"Romanian entries with incorrect language header",
"Romanian lemmas",
"Romanian neuter nouns",
"Romanian nouns",
"Romanian nouns with red links in their headword lines",
"Romanian terms borrowed from French",
"Romanian terms derived from French"
],
"glosses": [
"zigzag"
],
"links": [
[
"zigzag",
"zigzag#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"neuter"
]
}
],
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}
{
"derived": [
{
"word": "zigzagueante"
},
{
"word": "zigzaguear"
},
{
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "zigzagueo"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "fr",
"3": "zigzag"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from French zigzag",
"name": "bor+"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from French zigzag.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "zigzags",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "zigzagues",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "m",
"2": "+",
"pl2": "zigzagues"
},
"expansion": "zigzag m (plural zigzags or zigzagues)",
"name": "es-noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"zig‧zag"
],
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"lang_code": "es",
"pos": "noun",
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{
"categories": [
"Pages with 6 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:Spanish/aɡ",
"Rhymes:Spanish/aɡ/2 syllables",
"Spanish 2-syllable words",
"Spanish countable nouns",
"Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
"Spanish lemmas",
"Spanish masculine nouns",
"Spanish nouns",
"Spanish nouns with multiple plurals",
"Spanish terms borrowed from French",
"Spanish terms derived from French",
"Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation"
],
"glosses": [
"zigzag"
],
"links": [
[
"zigzag",
"zigzag#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/θiɡˈθaɡ/",
"tags": [
"Spain"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[θiɣ̞ˈθaɣ̞]",
"tags": [
"Spain"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/siɡˈsaɡ/",
"tags": [
"Latin-America",
"Philippines"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[siɣ̞ˈsaɣ̞]",
"tags": [
"Latin-America",
"Philippines"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-aɡ"
}
],
"word": "zigzag"
}
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"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'genitive-dative'",
"path": [
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],
"section": "Romanian",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "zigzag",
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}
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