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"sense": "small cardboard box in which matches are kept",
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"roman": "huǒcháihé",
"sense": "small cardboard box in which matches are kept",
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"sense": "small cardboard box in which matches are kept",
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"sense": "small cardboard box in which matches are kept",
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"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "quti kebrit",
"sense": "small cardboard box in which matches are kept",
"word": "قوطی کبریت"
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "small cardboard box in which matches are kept",
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{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "small cardboard box in which matches are kept",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "caixa de fósforo/fósforos"
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"code": "pa",
"lang": "Punjabi",
"roman": "ḍabbī",
"sense": "small cardboard box in which matches are kept",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ਡੱਬੀ"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "spíčečnyj korobók",
"sense": "small cardboard box in which matches are kept",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "спи́чечный коробо́к"
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"sense": "small cardboard box in which matches are kept",
"tags": [
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"word": "спи́чечная коро́бка"
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"sense": "small cardboard box in which matches are kept",
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "small cardboard box in which matches are kept",
"word": "กล่องไม้ขีด"
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"roman": "tsag sgra sgam chung",
"sense": "small cardboard box in which matches are kept",
"word": "ཙག་སྒྲ་སྒམ་ཆུང"
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"code": "bo",
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"roman": "mu zi sgam chung",
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"sense": "small cardboard box in which matches are kept",
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"word": "matchbox"
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"etymology_text": "From the die-cast toy car brand Matchbox owned by Mattel, so-called due to the size of the toys to fix in matchboxes.",
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"sense": "small cardboard box in which matches are kept",
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"sense": "small cardboard box in which matches are kept",
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"sense": "small cardboard box in which matches are kept",
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"sense": "small cardboard box in which matches are kept",
"word": "火柴盒"
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"code": "da",
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "small cardboard box in which matches are kept",
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"sense": "small cardboard box in which matches are kept",
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "small cardboard box in which matches are kept",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "small cardboard box in which matches are kept",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "spirtókouto",
"sense": "small cardboard box in which matches are kept",
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"neuter"
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "small cardboard box in which matches are kept",
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"code": "ga",
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"sense": "small cardboard box in which matches are kept",
"tags": [
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"word": "bosca cipíní"
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "small cardboard box in which matches are kept",
"tags": [
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"word": "scatola di fiammiferi"
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"code": "ja",
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"roman": "matchi-bako",
"sense": "small cardboard box in which matches are kept",
"word": "マッチ箱"
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"code": "ms",
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"sense": "small cardboard box in which matches are kept",
"word": "kotak mancis"
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"sense": "small cardboard box in which matches are kept",
"word": "തീപ്പെട്ടി"
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"roman": "tīppeṭṭikkūṭŭ",
"sense": "small cardboard box in which matches are kept",
"word": "തീപ്പെട്ടിക്കൂട്"
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"code": "gv",
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"sense": "small cardboard box in which matches are kept",
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"sense": "small cardboard box in which matches are kept",
"word": "pāki māti"
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"sense": "small cardboard box in which matches are kept",
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"code": "fa",
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"sense": "small cardboard box in which matches are kept",
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "small cardboard box in which matches are kept",
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"code": "pa",
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"sense": "small cardboard box in which matches are kept",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"sense": "small cardboard box in which matches are kept",
"word": "กล่องไม้ขีด"
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"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "tsag sgra sgam chung",
"sense": "small cardboard box in which matches are kept",
"word": "ཙག་སྒྲ་སྒམ་ཆུང"
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"code": "bo",
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"roman": "mu zi sgam chung",
"sense": "small cardboard box in which matches are kept",
"word": "མུ་ཟི་སྒམ་ཆུང"
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"code": "tr",
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"word": "kibrit kutusu"
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"word": "matchbox"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.