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{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "feast day of a saint",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "ȉmendān"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "feast day of a saint",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural"
],
"word": "meniny"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "feast day of a saint",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "god"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "feast day of a saint",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "día del santo"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "feast day of a saint",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "onomástica"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "feast day of a saint",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "santo"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "feast day of a saint",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "namnsdag"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "feast day of a saint",
"word": "isim günü"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "imenýny",
"sense": "feast day of a saint",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural"
],
"word": "імени́ни"
},
{
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "feast day of a saint",
"word": "ism kuni"
},
{
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "feast day of a saint",
"word": "ism toʻyi"
},
{
"code": "wym",
"lang": "Vilamovian",
"sense": "feast day of a saint",
"word": "nomastaog"
}
],
"word": "name day"
}
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