"cold weapon" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /kəʊld ˈwɛp(ə)n/ [Received-Pronunciation], /koʊld ˈwɛpən/ [General-American] Forms: cold weapons [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛpən Etymology: From cold + weapon, possibly a calque of Russian холо́дное ору́жие (xolódnoje orúžije, “cold weapon”), from холо́дное (xolódnoje) (the nominative neuter form of холо́дный (xolódnyj, “cold”)) + ору́жие (orúžije, “arm, weapon; weaponry”): see the 1876 quotation. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|cold|weapon|notext=1|type=endocentric}} cold + weapon, {{calque|en|ru|холо́дное ору́жие|nocap=1|t=cold weapon}} calque of Russian холо́дное ору́жие (xolódnoje orúžije, “cold weapon”), {{m|ru|холо́дное}} холо́дное (xolódnoje), {{glossary|nominative}} nominative, {{glossary|neuter}} neuter, {{m|ru|холо́дный|t=cold}} холо́дный (xolódnyj, “cold”), {{m|ru|ору́жие|t=arm, weapon; weaponry}} ору́жие (orúžije, “arm, weapon; weaponry”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} cold weapon (plural cold weapons)
  1. (weaponry) A weapon that does not use explosives or fire. Categories (topical): Weapons Synonyms: white arm Hyponyms: edged weapon Translations (weapon that does not use explosives or fire): سِلَاح أَبْيَض (silāḥ ʔabyaḍ) [masculine] (Arabic), սառը զենք (saṙə zenkʿ) (Armenian), arma blanca (Asturian), soyuq silah (Azerbaijani), arma zuri (Basque), хало́дная збро́я (xalódnaja zbrója) [feminine] (Belarusian), arm gwenn (Breton), хла́дно оръ́жие (hládno orǎ́žie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), arma blanca [feminine] (Catalan), چەکی سپی (çekî spî) (Central Kurdish), шийла герз (šiı̇la gerz) (Chechen), 冷兵器 (lěngbīngqì) (Chinese Mandarin), chladná zbraň [feminine] (Czech), blankvåben [neuter] (Danish), koud wapen [neuter] (Dutch), blanka armilo (Esperanto), külmrelv (Estonian), kylmä ase (Finnish), lähitaisteluase (Finnish), arme blanche [feminine] (French), arma branca (Galician), ცივი იარაღი (civi iaraɣi) (Georgian), kalte Waffe [feminine] (German), Blankwaffe (note: not very common) [feminine] (German), נשק קר (Hebrew), arma blanc (Interlingua), arma bianca [feminine] (Italian), 白兵 (hakuhei) (alt: はくへい) (Japanese), 冷兵器 (reiheiki) (alt: れいへいき) (Japanese), суық қару (suyq qaru) (Kazakh), 백병 (baekbyeong) (alt: 白兵) (Korean), aukstais ierocis [masculine] (Latvian), šaltasis ginklas [masculine] (Lithuanian), ла́дно о́ружје (ládno óružje) [neuter] (Macedonian), blankvåpen [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), цыргъӕгтӕ (cyrǧægtæ) (Ossetian), سلاح سرد (selâh-e sard) (Persian), broń biała [feminine] (Polish), arma branca [feminine] (Portuguese), armă albă [feminine] (Romanian), холо́дное ору́жие (xolódnoje orúžije) [neuter] (Russian), бе́лое ору́жие (béloje orúžije) [neuter, rare] (Russian), хладно оружје [Cyrillic, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), hladno oružje [Roman, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), chladná zbraň [feminine] (Slovak), hladno orožje [neuter] (Slovene), arma blanca [feminine] (Spanish), blankvapen [neuter] (Swedish), силоҳи сард (silohi sard) (Tajik), холо́дна збро́я (xolódna zbrója) [feminine] (Ukrainian)

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          "code": "ce",
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          "roman": "lěngbīngqì",
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          "word": "冷兵器"
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          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
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          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "civi iaraɣi",
          "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
          "word": "ცივი იარაღი"
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
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          "word": "kalte Waffe"
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          "note": "not very common",
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          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
          "word": "נשק קר"
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          "lang": "Interlingua",
          "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
          "word": "arma blanc"
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          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "arma bianca"
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        {
          "alt": "はくへい",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "hakuhei",
          "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
          "word": "白兵"
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        {
          "alt": "れいへいき",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "reiheiki",
          "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
          "word": "冷兵器"
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        {
          "code": "kk",
          "lang": "Kazakh",
          "roman": "suyq qaru",
          "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
          "word": "суық қару"
        },
        {
          "alt": "白兵",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "baekbyeong",
          "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
          "word": "백병"
        },
        {
          "code": "ckb",
          "lang": "Central Kurdish",
          "roman": "çekî spî",
          "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
          "word": "چەکی سپی"
        },
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          "code": "lv",
          "lang": "Latvian",
          "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "aukstais ierocis"
        },
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          "code": "lt",
          "lang": "Lithuanian",
          "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "šaltasis ginklas"
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          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "ládno óružje",
          "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
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          "word": "ла́дно о́ружје"
        },
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          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
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          "word": "blankvåpen"
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          "code": "os",
          "lang": "Ossetian",
          "roman": "cyrǧægtæ",
          "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
          "word": "цыргъӕгтӕ"
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          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "selâh-e sard",
          "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
          "word": "سلاح سرد"
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "tags": [
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          "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "armă albă"
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          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "xolódnoje orúžije",
          "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
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          "word": "холо́дное ору́жие"
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          "code": "ru",
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          "roman": "béloje orúžije",
          "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "бе́лое ору́жие"
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          "code": "sh",
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          "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
          "word": "силоҳи сард"
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          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "xolódna zbrója",
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      "expansion": "nominative",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "neuter"
      },
      "expansion": "neuter",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ru",
        "2": "холо́дный",
        "t": "cold"
      },
      "expansion": "холо́дный (xolódnyj, “cold”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ru",
        "2": "ору́жие",
        "t": "arm, weapon; weaponry"
      },
      "expansion": "ору́жие (orúžije, “arm, weapon; weaponry”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From cold + weapon, possibly a calque of Russian холо́дное ору́жие (xolódnoje orúžije, “cold weapon”), from холо́дное (xolódnoje) (the nominative neuter form of холо́дный (xolódnyj, “cold”)) + ору́жие (orúžije, “arm, weapon; weaponry”): see the 1876 quotation.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cold weapons",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "cold weapon (plural cold weapons)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "cold"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "firearm"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English compound nouns",
        "English compound terms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English endocentric compounds",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms calqued from Russian",
        "English terms derived from Russian",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
        "Rhymes:English/ɛpən",
        "Rhymes:English/ɛpən/3 syllables",
        "en:Weapons"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1863 January 17, “How to Make Soldiers”, in Charles Dickens, editor, All the Year Round. A Weekly Journal. [...] With which is Incorporated Household Words, volume VIII, number 195, London: […] C. Whiting, […], →OCLC, page 446, column 1",
          "text": "A fencing-room in which twenty or thirty couples of men are practising, is a fair illustration of a mélée with cold weapons.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1876, Hugo Stumm, “The Field of Operations and the Russian Resources of Operations in General”, in F. Henvey, P. Mosa, transl., The Russian Campaign against Khiva in 1873. […], part I, Calcutta, West Bengal: Foreign Department Press, →OCLC, section II (The Russian Bases of Operations in Central Asia), page 157",
          "text": "The most effective weapons in the hands of the Caucasians was the sword, or as the Russians call it \"the cold weapon\" [\"khalodnoye orúdiye,\" as opposed to firearms \"agniovoye orúdiye\"], the use of which, in hand-to-hand fight, was their special forte.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1890, Theodore Ayrault Dodge, “Army Organization and Tactics. Early Seventeenth to Early Eighteenth Century.”, in Gustavus Adolphus: A History of the Art of War from Its Revival after the Middle Ages to the End of the Spanish Succession War, […] (Great Captains), volume II, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC, page 571",
          "text": "Pistols, carbines and musketoons were the firearms of the cavalry; a sword or sabre the cold weapon.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Zhang Yun, “The History and Features of Dao”, in The Complete Taiji Dao: The Art of the Chinese Saber, Berkeley, Calif.: Blue Snake Books, North Atlantic Books, page 27",
          "text": "There are perhaps more variations of the dao than there are of any other cold weapon.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A weapon that does not use explosives or fire."
      ],
      "hyponyms": [
        {
          "word": "edged weapon"
        }
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "weaponry",
          "weaponry"
        ],
        [
          "weapon",
          "weapon#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "use",
          "use#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "explosives",
          "explosive#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "fire",
          "fire#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(weaponry) A weapon that does not use explosives or fire."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "white arm"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "engineering",
        "government",
        "military",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "politics",
        "tools",
        "war",
        "weaponry"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/kəʊld ˈwɛp(ə)n/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/koʊld ˈwɛpən/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛpən"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "silāḥ ʔabyaḍ",
      "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "سِلَاح أَبْيَض"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "saṙə zenkʿ",
      "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
      "word": "սառը զենք"
    },
    {
      "code": "ast",
      "lang": "Asturian",
      "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
      "word": "arma blanca"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
      "word": "soyuq silah"
    },
    {
      "code": "eu",
      "lang": "Basque",
      "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
      "word": "arma zuri"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "xalódnaja zbrója",
      "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "хало́дная збро́я"
    },
    {
      "code": "br",
      "lang": "Breton",
      "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
      "word": "arm gwenn"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "hládno orǎ́žie",
      "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "хла́дно оръ́жие"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "arma blanca"
    },
    {
      "code": "ce",
      "lang": "Chechen",
      "roman": "šiı̇la gerz",
      "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
      "word": "шийла герз"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "lěngbīngqì",
      "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
      "word": "冷兵器"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "chladná zbraň"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "blankvåben"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "koud wapen"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
      "word": "blanka armilo"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
      "word": "külmrelv"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
      "word": "kylmä ase"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
      "word": "lähitaisteluase"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "arme blanche"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
      "word": "arma branca"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "civi iaraɣi",
      "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
      "word": "ცივი იარაღი"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "kalte Waffe"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "note": "not very common",
      "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Blankwaffe"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
      "word": "נשק קר"
    },
    {
      "code": "ia",
      "lang": "Interlingua",
      "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
      "word": "arma blanc"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "arma bianca"
    },
    {
      "alt": "はくへい",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "hakuhei",
      "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
      "word": "白兵"
    },
    {
      "alt": "れいへいき",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "reiheiki",
      "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
      "word": "冷兵器"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "suyq qaru",
      "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
      "word": "суық қару"
    },
    {
      "alt": "白兵",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "baekbyeong",
      "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
      "word": "백병"
    },
    {
      "code": "ckb",
      "lang": "Central Kurdish",
      "roman": "çekî spî",
      "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
      "word": "چەکی سپی"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "aukstais ierocis"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "šaltasis ginklas"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "ládno óružje",
      "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "ла́дно о́ружје"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "blankvåpen"
    },
    {
      "code": "os",
      "lang": "Ossetian",
      "roman": "cyrǧægtæ",
      "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
      "word": "цыргъӕгтӕ"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "selâh-e sard",
      "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
      "word": "سلاح سرد"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "broń biała"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "arma branca"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "armă albă"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "xolódnoje orúžije",
      "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "холо́дное ору́жие"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "béloje orúžije",
      "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "rare"
      ],
      "word": "бе́лое ору́жие"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "хладно оружје"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "hladno oružje"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "chladná zbraň"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "hladno orožje"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "arma blanca"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "blankvapen"
    },
    {
      "code": "tg",
      "lang": "Tajik",
      "roman": "silohi sard",
      "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
      "word": "силоҳи сард"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "xolódna zbrója",
      "sense": "weapon that does not use explosives or fire",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "холо́дна збро́я"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cold weapon"
}

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