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},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "barbacã"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "barbacană"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "barbakán",
"sense": "A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "барбака́н"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "strélʹnica",
"sense": "A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "стре́льница"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "барбакан"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "barbakan"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "barbakán"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "barbakan"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "barbacana"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "barbakán",
"sense": "A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "барбака́н"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"barbican"
],
"word": "barbican"
}
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