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"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "haris",
"sense": "Inordinately desirous; excessively eager to obtain and possess (especially money); avaricious",
"word": "حریص"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "haris",
"sense": "Inordinately desirous; excessively eager to obtain and possess (especially money); avaricious",
"word": "حریص"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "álčnyj",
"sense": "Inordinately desirous; excessively eager to obtain and possess (especially money); avaricious",
"word": "а́лчный"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "Inordinately desirous; excessively eager to obtain and possess (especially money); avaricious",
"word": "sanntach"
}
],
"word": "covetous"
}
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