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"English uncountable nouns"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ar",
"3": "أَرَاك"
},
"expansion": "Arabic أَرَاك (ʔarāk)",
"name": "bor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Arabic أَرَاك (ʔarāk).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "araks",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-",
"2": "s"
},
"expansion": "arak (usually uncountable, plural araks)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"en:Brassicales order plants"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1958-1994, Hamilton Gibb & CF Beckingham, in The Travels of Ibn Battutah, Folio Society 2012, p. 51",
"text": "They use perfume freely, paint their eyes with kohl, and are constantly polishing their teeth with twigs of green arak-wood."
}
],
"glosses": [
"A toothbrush tree (Salvadora persica)."
],
"links": [
[
"toothbrush tree",
"toothbrush tree"
],
[
"Salvadora persica",
"Salvadora persica#Translingual"
]
],
"tags": [
"uncountable",
"usually"
]
}
],
"word": "arak"
}
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