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"ref": "1598, “24 Of the courſe out of the Hauen of Macau in China to the Iſland of Pulo Tymon, & the ſtraight of Sincapura.”, in W. P., transl., The Nauigation of the Portingales into the Eaſt Indies, London: John Wolfe, page 349",
"text": "When you depart from Macau to ye other coaſt, you must put out at the Eaſt chanel, if the wind bee Northweſt, if not, then you cannot paſſe, that way, but you muſt ſayle thorough the ſouthweſt chanel, which is a good way to paſſe out, running from the point of Varella, right unto the land on the other ſide of Macau,[…]",
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"roman": "⁵au-men",
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"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
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"word": "މަކާއޫ"
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"code": "gd",
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"word": "మకావు"
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"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
"word": "มาเก๊า"
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"code": "vi",
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"code": "za",
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"ref": "1598, “24 Of the courſe out of the Hauen of Macau in China to the Iſland of Pulo Tymon, & the ſtraight of Sincapura.”, in W. P., transl., The Nauigation of the Portingales into the Eaſt Indies, London: John Wolfe, page 349",
"text": "When you depart from Macau to ye other coaſt, you must put out at the Eaſt chanel, if the wind bee Northweſt, if not, then you cannot paſſe, that way, but you muſt ſayle thorough the ſouthweſt chanel, which is a good way to paſſe out, running from the point of Varella, right unto the land on the other ſide of Macau,[…]",
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"ref": "2015 September 12, Jochen Faget, “Crisis in China's gambling paradise”, in DW News, archived from the original on 2015-09-12",
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},
{
"ref": "2023 March 22, Nicole Hong, Alexandra Stevenson, “China Approves an mRNA Covid Vaccine, Its First”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-23, Business",
"text": "At the height of the Covid wave, some mainland residents ventured across the border to the Chinese territory of Macau to find foreign-made mRNA vaccines.",
"type": "quotation"
}
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{
"word": "Macao"
}
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"masculine"
],
"word": "مَاكَاوْ"
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"code": "as",
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"word": "মাকাও"
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"code": "az",
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"code": "be",
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],
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"code": "bn",
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"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
"word": "মাকাও"
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"code": "bg",
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"word": "မကာအို"
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"code": "ca",
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"word": "Macau"
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"word": "澳門"
},
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"word": "澳門"
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"code": "wuu",
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"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
"word": "澳門"
},
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"code": "wuu",
"lang": "Wu Chinese",
"roman": "⁵au-men",
"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
"word": "澳门"
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{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
"word": "Macao"
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"code": "da",
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"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
"word": "Macao"
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"code": "dv",
"lang": "Dhivehi",
"roman": "makāū",
"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
"word": "މަކާއޫ"
},
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
"word": "Makao"
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"code": "eo",
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"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
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"code": "et",
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"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
"word": "Macau"
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{
"code": "et",
"english": "seldom",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
"word": "Aomen"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
"word": "Macao"
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"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
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"code": "ka",
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"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
"word": "მაკაო"
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"word": "Macao"
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"word": "מקאו"
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"word": "ಮಕಾವು"
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"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
"word": "Аумын"
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"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
"word": "ម៉ាកាវ"
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"code": "ko",
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"roman": "Makao",
"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
"word": "마카오"
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"alt": "澳門",
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"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
"word": "오문"
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"code": "ko",
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"word": "Макао"
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"code": "lo",
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"roman": "mā kao",
"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
"word": "ມາເກົາ"
},
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"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
"word": "Makao"
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"code": "lv",
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"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
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},
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"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
"word": "Makao"
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"code": "lt",
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"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
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"code": "mzs",
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"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
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"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
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"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
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"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
"word": "Makau"
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"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
"word": "मकाउ"
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"word": "Аомэн"
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"word": "Macao"
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"code": "os",
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"word": "Макао"
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"code": "fa",
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"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
"word": "ماکائو"
},
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
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"word": "Macao"
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
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],
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
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{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
"word": "Macao"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "Makáo",
"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Мака́о"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"english": "older transliteration but common",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "Aomýnʹ",
"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Аомы́нь"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"english": "rare spelling, new transliteration",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "Aomɛ́nʹ",
"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Аомэ́нь"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
"word": "Macau"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
"word": "Macao"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
"word": "Macàthu"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "Макао"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "Макау"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "Makao"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "Makau"
},
{
"code": "si",
"lang": "Sinhalese",
"roman": "makāwō",
"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
"word": "මකාවෝ"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
"word": "Macau"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
"word": "Makaw"
},
{
"code": "tg",
"lang": "Tajik",
"roman": "Aomin",
"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
"word": "Аомин"
},
{
"code": "tg",
"lang": "Tajik",
"roman": "Aomen",
"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
"word": "Аомэн"
},
{
"code": "tg",
"lang": "Tajik",
"roman": "Makao",
"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
"word": "Макао"
},
{
"code": "ta",
"lang": "Tamil",
"roman": "makkāvu",
"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
"word": "மக்காவு"
},
{
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "makāvu",
"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
"word": "మకావు"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "maa-gáo",
"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
"word": "มาเก๊า"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
"word": "อ้าวเหมิน"
},
{
"code": "tk",
"lang": "Turkmen",
"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
"word": "Makao"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "Aomýnʹ",
"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Аоми́нь"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "Makáo",
"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Мака́о"
},
{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "makā'o",
"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
"word": "مکاؤ"
},
{
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
"word": "Makao"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
"word": "Ma Cao"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
"word": "Áo Môn"
},
{
"code": "za",
"lang": "Zhuang",
"sense": "a city just west of Hong Kong",
"word": "Aumwnz"
}
],
"word": "Macau"
}
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