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"text": "→ French: jerricane, jerrican"
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"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Kurtöp: ཇར་ཀན (jarkan), ཇར་ཀིན (jarkin)"
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"ref": "1987, Michael Swanwick, Vacuum Flowers, New York: Arbor House, page 46",
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{
"ref": "2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 259",
"text": "Anyone with half a brain and a jerrycan of fertilizer's got an army.",
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{
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{
"word": "jerry-can"
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"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "kanístra",
"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
"word": "кані́стра"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "tuba",
"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "qìyóu guàn",
"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
"word": "汽油罐"
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{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "yóuguàn",
"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
"word": "油罐"
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "kanystr"
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{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "jerrycan"
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{
"code": "da",
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{
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"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
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"masculine"
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"word": "bidon"
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{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ḳanisṭra",
"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
"word": "კანისტრა"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
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"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "kánistro",
"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
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"neuter"
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},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "גֶ'רִיקָן"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
"word": "jeriken"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tanica"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
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"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
"word": "ジェリカン"
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"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "jerikaen",
"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
"word": "제리캔"
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"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "jerrykanne"
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"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "jerrykanne"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kanister"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kanístra",
"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "bidón"
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"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
"word": "jerikeni"
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"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "jeepdunk"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
"tags": [
"Finland",
"common-gender"
],
"word": "jerrykanna"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
"word": "bidon"
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{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "kanístra",
"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "кані́стра"
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]
}
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"ipa": "/ˈd͡ʒɛɹiˌkæn/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈd͡ʒɛɹɪˌkæn/"
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"2": "ཇར་ཀན",
"alts": "1",
"bor": "1",
"tr": "jarkan"
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"expansion": "→ Kurtöp: ཇར་ཀན (jarkan), ཇར་ཀིན (jarkin)",
"name": "desc"
}
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"text": "→ Kurtöp: ཇར་ཀན (jarkan), ཇར་ཀིན (jarkin)"
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"depth": 1,
"templates": [
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"args": {
"1": "no",
"2": "jerrykanne",
"bor": "1"
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"ref": "1987, Michael Swanwick, Vacuum Flowers, New York: Arbor House, page 46",
"text": "The police fell back, swatting and cursing. At the gateway, somebody grabbed a jerrycan of water from Jonamon's hut and flung its contents at the swarm.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 259",
"text": "Anyone with half a brain and a jerrycan of fertilizer's got an army.",
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"A robust fuel container often made from pressed steel."
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{
"ipa": "/ˈd͡ʒɛɹɪˌkæn/"
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"word": "jerican"
},
{
"word": "jerrican"
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{
"word": "jerry can"
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"word": "jerry-can"
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"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "kanístra",
"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
"word": "кані́стра"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "tuba",
"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "qìyóu guàn",
"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
"word": "汽油罐"
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"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
"word": "油罐"
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"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
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"masculine"
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"code": "da",
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"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
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{
"code": "da",
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"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
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"word": "benzindunk"
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"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
"word": "jerrykannu"
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{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
"word": "kanisteri"
},
{
"code": "fr",
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"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "jerricane"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "bidon"
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{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ḳanisṭra",
"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
"word": "კანისტრა"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "Benzinkanister"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
"tags": [
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"word": "Kanister"
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{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "kánistro",
"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "κάνιστρο"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "גֶ'רִיקָן"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
"word": "jeriken"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tanica"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "jerikan",
"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
"word": "ジェリカン"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "jerikaen",
"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
"word": "제리캔"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
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"feminine",
"masculine"
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"word": "jerrykanne"
},
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"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
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"word": "jerrykanne"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kanister"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kanístra",
"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "кани́стра"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
"tags": [
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"word": "bidón"
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{
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
"word": "jerikeni"
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{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
"tags": [
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"word": "jeepdunk"
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{
"code": "sv",
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"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
"tags": [
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"common-gender"
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"word": "jerrykanna"
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{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
"word": "bidon"
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{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "kanístra",
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"tags": [
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"word": "кані́стра"
}
],
"word": "jerrycan"
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