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"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "slim hardwood spear or javelin with an iron tip",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "zagaglia"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "slim hardwood spear or javelin with an iron tip",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "azagaia"
},
{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "slim hardwood spear or javelin with an iron tip",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "slim hardwood spear or javelin with an iron tip",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "azagaya"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "slim hardwood spear or javelin with an iron tip",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "assegaj"
},
{
"code": "zu",
"lang": "Zulu",
"sense": "slim hardwood spear or javelin with an iron tip",
"tags": [
"class-3",
"class-4"
],
"word": "umkhonto"
},
{
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "tree species Curtisia dentata",
"word": "assegai"
},
{
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "tree species Curtisia dentata",
"word": "assegaaiboom"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "tree species Curtisia dentata",
"word": "azagaia"
}
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"assegai"
],
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}
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"name": "der"
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"3": "assegaai"
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"name": "bor"
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ar",
"3": "زغاية",
"4": "اَلزَّغَايَة"
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"name": "der"
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"etymology_text": "From French azagaie (now zagaie) or Portuguese azagaia, Spanish azagaya, and later in the forms that have become most common borrowed from Afrikaans assegaai, from colloquial Arabic اَلزَّغَايَة (az-zaḡāya), from Proto-Berber *zaġāya (“spear”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "assegais",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "assegaiing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
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{
"form": "assegaied",
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"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"word": "Curtisia"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"To spear with an assegai."
],
"links": [
[
"spear",
"spear"
]
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈæsəɡaɪ/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "assagai"
},
{
"word": "assagaie"
},
{
"word": "assagay"
},
{
"word": "assegaai"
},
{
"word": "assegay"
},
{
"word": "azagaia"
},
{
"word": "hassagay"
},
{
"word": "hassaguay"
},
{
"word": "zagaie"
},
{
"tags": [
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],
"word": "zagaye"
}
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"assegai"
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"word": "assegai"
}
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