"John Doe" meaning in English

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Proper name

Audio: En-au-John Doe.ogg [Australia]
Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} John Doe
  1. A fictitious name used in legal documents for an unknown or anonymous male person. Categories (topical): People Synonyms: Richard Roe, Joe Bloggs [Australia, UK], John Citizen Hyponyms: Juan Doe (english: an unknown Latino) Derived forms: Juanita Doe, Juan Doe, Jane Doe Translations (male name used in legal documents): 陳大文 (Chinese Cantonese), 陈大文 (english: can⁴ daai⁶ man⁴) (Chinese Cantonese), 張三 (Chinese Mandarin), 张三 (Zhāng Sān) (Chinese Mandarin), 李四 (Lǐ Sì) (Chinese Mandarin), 王五 (Wáng Wǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), 王小明 (Wáng Xiǎomíng) (Chinese Mandarin), N.N. (Finnish), Matti Meikäläinen [masculine] (Finnish), X (French), Max Mustermann [masculine] (German), N. N. (German), NN (German), ישראל ישראלי (english: Israel Israeli) (Hebrew), פְּלוֹנִי אַלְמוֹנִי (ploni almoni) (Hebrew), NN [feminine, masculine] (Italian), ignoto [masculine] (Italian), Mario Rossi [masculine] (Italian), 山田太郎 (Yamada Tarō) (alt: やまだ たろう) (Japanese), 홍길동 (english: Hong Gildong) (Korean), NN [feminine, masculine] (Latin), Ola Nordmann [masculine] (Norwegian), NN [feminine, masculine] (Polish), Ива́н Ива́нович (Iván Ivánovič) [masculine] (Russian), NN (Spanish), Juan Perez [masculine] (Spanish), NN (Swedish), Nguyễn Văn A (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-John_Doe-en-name-azebHaJ6 Disambiguation of People: 57 43 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 67 33 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 77 23 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 76 24 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 72 28

Noun

Audio: En-au-John Doe.ogg [Australia] Forms: John Does [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} John Doe (plural John Does)
  1. Any unknown or anonymous male person. Related terms: so-and-so, what's-his-name, you-know-who Translations (any unknown or anonymous male person): فُلان (fulān) [masculine] (Arabic), فُلان الْفُلانِيّ (fulān al-fulāniyy) [masculine] (Arabic), فُلان اِبْن فُلان (fulān ibn fulān) [masculine] (Arabic), فلان (flān) [Moroccan-Arabic, masculine] (Arabic), فلان بن فلان (flān bin flān) [Moroccan-Arabic, masculine] (Arabic), فلان بن علان (flān bin ʕallān) [Moroccan-Arabic, masculine] (Arabic), (mau⁵) (Chinese Cantonese), 佚名 (yìmíng) (Chinese Mandarin), 某甲 (mǒujiǎ) (Chinese Mandarin), Ajnulo (Esperanto), Sinjoro Ajnulo (Esperanto), Matti Meikäläinen (Finnish), Jean Dupont (French), Tartempion (French), Untel [masculine] (French), Unetelle [feminine] (French), Fulano [masculine] (Galician), Xan [masculine] (Galician), Max Mustermann (German), Otto Normalverbraucher (German), Gipsz Jakab (Hungarian), Jón Jónsson [masculine] (Icelandic), Seán Ó Rudaí (Irish), Mario Rossi (Italian), Pinco Pallino (Italian), だれだれ (daredare) (Japanese), ほげ (hoge) [Internet] (Japanese), Петар Петровски (Petar Petrovski) [masculine] (Macedonian), mat (Malay), Si Fulan (english: classical) (Malay), Ola Nordmann (Norwegian), Jan Kowalski [masculine] (Polish), Kowalski [masculine] (Polish), Fulano [masculine] (Portuguese), Xulescu (Romanian), Domnul Xulescu (Romanian), имяре́к (imjarék) [masculine] (Russian), Иван Иванович Иванов (Ivan Ivanovič Ivanov) (Russian), Вася Пупкин (Vasja Pupkin) [humorous] (Russian), Nepoznati Netko (Serbo-Croatian), Fulano [masculine] (Spanish), Mengano [masculine] (Spanish), Zutano [masculine] (Spanish), sarı çizmeli Mehmet Ağa (Turkish), Nguyễn Văn A (Vietnamese), Tibî Meyî [common-gender] (Walloon), משה גרויס (moyshe groys) [masculine] (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-John_Doe-en-noun-BXEd9Uta

Inflected forms

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          "code": "ary",
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          "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
          "tags": [
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            "masculine"
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          "word": "فلان بن علان"
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          "code": "yue",
          "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
          "roman": "mau⁵",
          "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
          "word": "某"
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        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "yìmíng",
          "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
          "word": "佚名"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "mǒujiǎ",
          "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
          "word": "某甲"
        },
        {
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
          "word": "Ajnulo"
        },
        {
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
          "word": "Sinjoro Ajnulo"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
          "word": "Matti Meikäläinen"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
          "word": "Jean Dupont"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
          "word": "Tartempion"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Untel"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Unetelle"
        },
        {
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Fulano"
        },
        {
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Xan"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
          "word": "Max Mustermann"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
          "word": "Otto Normalverbraucher"
        },
        {
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "note": "פלוני m from Plony Almony - an unknown person in the biblical book of Ruth.",
          "roman": "ploní",
          "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
          "word": "Gipsz Jakab"
        },
        {
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Jón Jónsson"
        },
        {
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
          "word": "Seán Ó Rudaí"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
          "word": "Mario Rossi"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
          "word": "Pinco Pallino"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "note": "なになに (naninani, literally “what-what”)",
          "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "daredare",
          "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
          "word": "だれだれ"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "hoge",
          "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
          "tags": [
            "Internet"
          ],
          "word": "ほげ"
        },
        {
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "Petar Petrovski",
          "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Петар Петровски"
        },
        {
          "code": "ms",
          "lang": "Malay",
          "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
          "word": "mat"
        },
        {
          "code": "ms",
          "english": "classical",
          "lang": "Malay",
          "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
          "word": "Si Fulan"
        },
        {
          "code": "no",
          "lang": "Norwegian",
          "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
          "word": "Ola Nordmann"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Jan Kowalski"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Kowalski"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Fulano"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
          "word": "Xulescu"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
          "word": "Domnul Xulescu"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "imjarék",
          "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "имяре́к"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "Ivan Ivanovič Ivanov",
          "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
          "word": "Иван Иванович Иванов"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "Vasja Pupkin",
          "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
          "tags": [
            "humorous"
          ],
          "word": "Вася Пупкин"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
          "word": "Nepoznati Netko"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Fulano"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Mengano"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Zutano"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
          "word": "sarı çizmeli Mehmet Ağa"
        },
        {
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "note": "постражда́лий (postraždályj, literally “victim”)",
          "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person"
        },
        {
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "note": "невідомий (nevidomyj, literally “unknown someone”)",
          "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person"
        },
        {
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
          "word": "Nguyễn Văn A"
        },
        {
          "code": "wa",
          "lang": "Walloon",
          "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "Tibî Meyî"
        },
        {
          "code": "yi",
          "lang": "Yiddish",
          "roman": "moyshe groys",
          "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "משה גרויס"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "audio": "En-au-John Doe.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0f/En-au-John_Doe.ogg/En-au-John_Doe.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/En-au-John_Doe.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
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    }
  ],
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    "en:John Doe"
  ],
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}
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      "english": "an unknown female",
      "word": "Jane Doe"
    },
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      "english": "an unknown female",
      "word": "Jane Roe"
    }
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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
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    {
      "word": "Juanita Doe"
    },
    {
      "word": "Juan Doe"
    },
    {
      "word": "Jane Doe"
    }
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      "args": {},
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      "english": "an unknown Latino",
      "word": "Juan Doe"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
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        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1885, Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume 4",
          "text": "i.e. \"to Tom, Dick or Harry:\" the names like John Doe and Richard Roe are used indefinitely in Arab.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "A fictitious name used in legal documents for an unknown or anonymous male person."
      ]
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      "audio": "En-au-John Doe.ogg",
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/En-au-John_Doe.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
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    }
  ],
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    {
      "word": "Richard Roe"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "UK"
      ],
      "word": "Joe Bloggs"
    },
    {
      "word": "John Citizen"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "sense": "male name used in legal documents",
      "word": "陳大文"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "english": "can⁴ daai⁶ man⁴",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "sense": "male name used in legal documents",
      "word": "陈大文"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "male name used in legal documents",
      "word": "張三"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "Zhāng Sān",
      "sense": "male name used in legal documents",
      "word": "张三"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "Lǐ Sì",
      "sense": "male name used in legal documents",
      "word": "李四"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "Wáng Wǔ",
      "sense": "male name used in legal documents",
      "word": "王五"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "Wáng Xiǎomíng",
      "sense": "male name used in legal documents",
      "word": "王小明"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "male name used in legal documents",
      "word": "N.N."
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "male name used in legal documents",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Matti Meikäläinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "male name used in legal documents",
      "word": "X"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "male name used in legal documents",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Max Mustermann"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "male name used in legal documents",
      "word": "N. N."
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "male name used in legal documents",
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    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "english": "Israel Israeli",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "sense": "male name used in legal documents",
      "word": "ישראל ישראלי"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "ploni almoni",
      "sense": "male name used in legal documents",
      "word": "פְּלוֹנִי אַלְמוֹנִי"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "male name used in legal documents",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "NN"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "male name used in legal documents",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ignoto"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "male name used in legal documents",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Mario Rossi"
    },
    {
      "alt": "やまだ たろう",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "Yamada Tarō",
      "sense": "male name used in legal documents",
      "word": "山田太郎"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "english": "Hong Gildong",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "sense": "male name used in legal documents",
      "word": "홍길동"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "male name used in legal documents",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "NN"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "male name used in legal documents",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Ola Nordmann"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "male name used in legal documents",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "NN"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "Iván Ivánovič",
      "sense": "male name used in legal documents",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Ива́н Ива́нович"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "male name used in legal documents",
      "word": "NN"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "male name used in legal documents",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Juan Perez"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "male name used in legal documents",
      "word": "NN"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "male name used in legal documents",
      "word": "Nguyễn Văn A"
    }
  ],
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    "en:John Doe"
  ],
  "word": "John Doe"
}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
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    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English placeholder terms",
    "English proper nouns",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
    "English uncountable nouns",
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        "plural"
      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "word": "so-and-so"
    },
    {
      "word": "what's-his-name"
    },
    {
      "word": "you-know-who"
    }
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      "glosses": [
        "Any unknown or anonymous male person."
      ]
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      "audio": "En-au-John Doe.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0f/En-au-John_Doe.ogg/En-au-John_Doe.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/En-au-John_Doe.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
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    }
  ],
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    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "fulān",
      "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "فُلان"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "fulān al-fulāniyy",
      "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "فُلان الْفُلانِيّ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "fulān ibn fulān",
      "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "فُلان اِبْن فُلان"
    },
    {
      "code": "ary",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "flān",
      "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
      "tags": [
        "Moroccan-Arabic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "فلان"
    },
    {
      "code": "ary",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "flān bin flān",
      "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
      "tags": [
        "Moroccan-Arabic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "فلان بن فلان"
    },
    {
      "code": "ary",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "flān bin ʕallān",
      "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
      "tags": [
        "Moroccan-Arabic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "فلان بن علان"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "roman": "mau⁵",
      "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
      "word": "某"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yìmíng",
      "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
      "word": "佚名"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "mǒujiǎ",
      "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
      "word": "某甲"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
      "word": "Ajnulo"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
      "word": "Sinjoro Ajnulo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
      "word": "Matti Meikäläinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
      "word": "Jean Dupont"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
      "word": "Tartempion"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Untel"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Unetelle"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Fulano"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Xan"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
      "word": "Max Mustermann"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
      "word": "Otto Normalverbraucher"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "note": "פלוני m from Plony Almony - an unknown person in the biblical book of Ruth.",
      "roman": "ploní",
      "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
      "word": "Gipsz Jakab"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Jón Jónsson"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
      "word": "Seán Ó Rudaí"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
      "word": "Mario Rossi"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
      "word": "Pinco Pallino"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "note": "なになに (naninani, literally “what-what”)",
      "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "daredare",
      "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
      "word": "だれだれ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "hoge",
      "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
      "tags": [
        "Internet"
      ],
      "word": "ほげ"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "Petar Petrovski",
      "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Петар Петровски"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
      "word": "mat"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "english": "classical",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
      "word": "Si Fulan"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
      "word": "Ola Nordmann"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Jan Kowalski"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Kowalski"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Fulano"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
      "word": "Xulescu"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
      "word": "Domnul Xulescu"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "imjarék",
      "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "имяре́к"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "Ivan Ivanovič Ivanov",
      "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
      "word": "Иван Иванович Иванов"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "Vasja Pupkin",
      "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
      "tags": [
        "humorous"
      ],
      "word": "Вася Пупкин"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
      "word": "Nepoznati Netko"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Fulano"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Mengano"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Zutano"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
      "word": "sarı çizmeli Mehmet Ağa"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "note": "постражда́лий (postraždályj, literally “victim”)",
      "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "note": "невідомий (nevidomyj, literally “unknown someone”)",
      "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
      "word": "Nguyễn Văn A"
    },
    {
      "code": "wa",
      "lang": "Walloon",
      "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "Tibî Meyî"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "moyshe groys",
      "sense": "any unknown or anonymous male person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "משה גרויס"
    }
  ],
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    "en:John Doe"
  ],
  "word": "John Doe"
}
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  "msg": "Translation too long compared to word, so it is skipped",
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