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"word": "simila"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "of the same kind; similar",
"word": "rilata"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "of the same kind; similar",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "analogue"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "of the same kind; similar",
"word": "ähnlich"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "of the same kind; similar",
"word": "analog"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "of the same kind; similar",
"word": "affine"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "nalik",
"sense": "of the same kind; similar",
"word": "налик"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "of the same kind; similar",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pokrewny"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "of the same kind; similar",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "zbliżony"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "of the same kind; similar",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "semelhante"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "srodní",
"sense": "of the same kind; similar",
"word": "сродни́"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "podóbnyj",
"sense": "of the same kind; similar",
"word": "подо́бный"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "of the same kind; similar",
"word": "srȍdan"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "of the same kind; similar",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "podobný"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "of the same kind; similar",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "príbuzný"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "of the same kind; similar",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "taký ako ..."
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "of the same kind; similar",
"word": "semejante"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "of the same kind; similar",
"word": "similar"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "podibnyj",
"sense": "of the same kind; similar",
"word": "подібний"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"akin"
],
"word": "akin"
}
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