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"etymology_text": "From Middle English nonne, nunne, from Old English nunne (“nun”), from Late Latin nonna (“nun, tutor”), originally (along with masculine form nonnus (“man”)) a term of address for elderly persons, perhaps from children's speech, reminiscent of nana, like papa etc. Doublet of nonna.",
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{
"word": "monk"
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{
"word": "frater"
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"Gender",
"Human",
"Biology",
"Psychology",
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"ref": "1988, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 258",
"text": "Thus, when the nuns came to the mission and we saw that instead of murmuring soft blessings and gliding seraphically over the grass in diaphanous habits, they wore smart blouses and skirts and walked, laughed and talked in low twanging tones very much like our own American missionaries did, we were very disappointed.",
"type": "quotation"
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"A member of a Christian religious community of women who live by certain vows and usually wear a habit, (Roman Catholicism, specifically) those living together in a cloister."
],
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"vow"
],
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"habit",
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[
"Roman Catholicism",
"Roman Catholicism"
],
[
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"cloister"
]
],
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"sense": "member of a religious community",
"word": "nonnus"
}
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"word": "sister"
},
{
"word": "moniale"
},
{
"word": "sistren"
},
{
"word": "cloistress"
}
],
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"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "non"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "murgeshë"
},
{
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "rāhiba",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "رَاهِبَة"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "mianjnuhi",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "միանձնուհի"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "ast",
"lang": "Asturian",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "monxa"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "rahibə"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "manáška",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "мана́шка"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "monahínja",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "монахи́ня"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "kalúgerka",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "калу́герка"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "monja"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "xiūnǚ",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "修女"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "nígū",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "尼姑"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "gūzi",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "姑子"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "ní",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "尼"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "jeptiška"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "řeholnice"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "nonne"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "non"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "(klooster-, slot-)zuster"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "myv",
"lang": "Erzya",
"roman": "śkamonava",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "ськамонава"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "monaĥino"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "nunn"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "nunna"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "nunna"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "nonne"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "religieuse"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bonne sœur"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "moniale"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "nonnain"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "madre"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "monxa"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"archaic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "touquinegra"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "freira"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "monazoni",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "მონაზონი"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Nonne"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Ordensschwester"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Klosterschwester"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "Schwester"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "monachí",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "μοναχή"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "kalógria",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "καλόγρια"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "nezirá",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "נְזִירָה"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "maṭhvāsinī",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "मठवासिनी"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "bhaktin",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "भक्तिन"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "apáca"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "nővér"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "nunna"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "biarawati"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "suster"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bean rialta"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "suora"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "monaca"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"alt": "しゅうどうじょ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "shūdōjo",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "修道女"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"alt": "にそう",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "nisō",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "尼僧"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "dōtei",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "童貞"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"alt": "あま",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "ama",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"derogatory"
],
"word": "尼"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"alt": "修女",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "sunyeo",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "수녀"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"alt": "比丘尼",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "biguni",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "비구니"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "ky",
"lang": "Kyrgyz",
"roman": "monahinya",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "монахиня"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "nonna"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "monacha"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mūķene"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "vienuolė"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "lb",
"lang": "Luxembourgish",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Nonn"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "kaluǵerka",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "калуѓерка"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "rahib perempuan"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "none"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "gelenmaa",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "гэлэнмаа"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "nonne"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "nonne"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "nonne"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "nunne"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "prs",
"lang": "Dari",
"roman": "rāhiba",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "رَاهِبَه"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "fa-ira",
"lang": "Iranian Persian",
"roman": "râhebe",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "راهِبِه"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "zakonnica"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mniszka"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "siostra zakonna"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "siostra"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "freira"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "religiosa"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "madre"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "monja"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "călugăriță"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "monáxinja",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "мона́хиня"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "monáška",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "мона́шка"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cailleach dhubh"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bean-chràbhaidh"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "часна сестра"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "калуђерица"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "монахиња"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "редовница"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "časna sestra"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "kaluđerica"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "monahinja"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "redovnica"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "sms",
"lang": "Skolt Sami",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "manaših"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mníška"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "rehoľníčka"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "nuna"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "redovnica"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "dsb",
"lang": "Lower Sorbian",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mnichowka"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "monja"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "religiosa"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "sista"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "nunna"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "madre"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "tg",
"lang": "Tajik",
"roman": "rohiba",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "роҳиба"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "tdt",
"lang": "Tetun Dili",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "madre"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "chii",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "ชี"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "แม่ชี"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "btsun ma",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "བཙུན་མ"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "rahibe"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "monáxynja",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "мона́хиня"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "monáška",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "мона́шка"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "černýcja",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "черни́ця"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "rāhiba",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "راہِبَہ"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "nan",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "نَن"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "ug",
"lang": "Uyghur",
"roman": "rahibe",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "راھىبە"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "rohiba"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "monashka"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "xơ"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "bà xơ"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "nữ tu sĩ"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "nữ tu"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "wym",
"lang": "Vilamovian",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "nunn"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "kleudan"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "hikleudan"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "jikleudan"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 17 2 0",
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "lleian"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 30 2 0",
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "member of a non-Christian religious community of women",
"word": "non"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 30 2 0",
"code": "my",
"lang": "Burmese",
"roman": "sila.hrang",
"sense": "member of a non-Christian religious community of women",
"word": "သီလရှင်"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 30 2 0",
"code": "my",
"english": "mendicant Buddhist nun",
"lang": "Burmese",
"roman": "bhikhku.ni",
"sense": "member of a non-Christian religious community of women",
"word": "ဘိက္ခုနီ"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 30 2 0",
"code": "nan-hbl",
"lang": "Chinese",
"roman": "zh-min-nan",
"sense": "member of a non-Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"Hokkien"
],
"word": "尼姑"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 30 2 0",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "member of a non-Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mniška"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 30 2 0",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "member of a non-Christian religious community of women",
"word": "monaĥino"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 30 2 0",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "member of a non-Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "monxa"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 30 2 0",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "monazoni",
"sense": "member of a non-Christian religious community of women",
"word": "მონაზონი"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 30 2 0",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "monachí",
"sense": "member of a non-Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "μοναχή"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 30 2 0",
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "maṭhvāsinī",
"sense": "member of a non-Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "मठवासिनी"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 30 2 0",
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "tapasvinī",
"sense": "member of a non-Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "तपस्विनी"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 30 2 0",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "member of a non-Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "monaca"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 30 2 0",
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "cii",
"sense": "member of a non-Christian religious community of women",
"word": "ជី"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 30 2 0",
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "gelenmaa",
"sense": "member of a non-Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "гэлэнмаа"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 30 2 0",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "member of a non-Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mniszka"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 30 2 0",
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "chii",
"sense": "member of a non-Christian religious community of women",
"word": "ชี"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 30 2 0",
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"sense": "member of a non-Christian religious community of women",
"word": "แม่ชี"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 30 2 0",
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "a ni",
"sense": "member of a non-Christian religious community of women",
"word": "ཨ་ནི"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 30 2 0",
"code": "xto",
"lang": "Tocharian A",
"sense": "member of a non-Christian religious community of women",
"word": "aśi"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 30 2 0",
"code": "ug",
"lang": "Uyghur",
"roman": "rahibe",
"sense": "member of a non-Christian religious community of women",
"word": "راھىبە"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 30 2 0",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "member of a non-Christian religious community of women",
"word": "nữ tu sĩ"
}
]
},
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{
"text": "a Buddhist nun",
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}
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"A member of a similar female community in other confessions."
],
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[
"confession",
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],
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"(by extension) A member of a similar female community in other confessions."
],
"tags": [
"broadly"
]
},
{
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{
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}
],
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{
"ref": "1881, Pierce Egan, chapter 8, in Life in London, page 205",
"text": "\"I mean to inform you,\" answered the Oxonian, with a grin on his face, \"that those three nymphs, who have so much dazzled your optics, are three nuns, and the plump female is Mother .... of great notoriety [...]\"",
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}
],
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"A prostitute."
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[
"prostitute",
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]
],
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"(archaic, Britain, slang) A prostitute."
],
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 100 0",
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 100 0",
"sense": "prostitute",
"word": "abbot"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 100 0",
"sense": "prostitute",
"word": "Covent Garden nun"
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{
"word": "prostitute"
}
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]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A kind of pigeon with the feathers on its head like the hood of a nun."
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[
"pigeon",
"pigeon"
],
[
"feather",
"feather"
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]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/nʌn/"
},
{
"ipa": "/nʊn/",
"tags": [
"Ireland",
"Northern-England"
]
},
{
"homophone": "none"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʌn"
},
{
"audio": "En-au-nun.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0e/En-au-nun.ogg/En-au-nun.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/En-au-nun.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
},
{
"enpr": "nŭn",
"tags": [
"Ireland",
"Northern-England"
]
}
],
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}
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"args": {
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],
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{
"form": "nuns",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
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{
"args": {},
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"Language",
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"_dis": "22 2 11 1 49 15",
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"_dis": "21 2 10 1 52 14",
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[
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[
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[
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[
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{
"word": "noon"
},
{
"word": "nūn"
}
],
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{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "nūn",
"sense": "Semitic letter",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "نُون"
},
{
"code": "ar",
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"roman": "n",
"sense": "Semitic letter",
"tags": [
"letter"
],
"word": "ن"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "Semitic letter",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "nun"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "Semitic letter",
"word": "noen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "Semitic letter",
"word": "nun"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "Semitic letter",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "noun"
},
{
"code": "fr",
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"lang": "Macedonian",
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"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "калуѓерка"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "rahib perempuan"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "none"
},
{
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "gelenmaa",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "гэлэнмаа"
},
{
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "nonne"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "nonne"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "nonne"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "nunne"
},
{
"code": "prs",
"lang": "Dari",
"roman": "rāhiba",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "رَاهِبَه"
},
{
"code": "fa-ira",
"lang": "Iranian Persian",
"roman": "râhebe",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "راهِبِه"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "zakonnica"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mniszka"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "siostra zakonna"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "siostra"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "freira"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "religiosa"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "madre"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "monja"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "călugăriță"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "monáxinja",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "мона́хиня"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "monáška",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "мона́шка"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cailleach dhubh"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bean-chràbhaidh"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "часна сестра"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "калуђерица"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "монахиња"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "редовница"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "časna sestra"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "kaluđerica"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "monahinja"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "redovnica"
},
{
"code": "sms",
"lang": "Skolt Sami",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "manaših"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mníška"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "rehoľníčka"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "nuna"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "redovnica"
},
{
"code": "dsb",
"lang": "Lower Sorbian",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mnichowka"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "monja"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "religiosa"
},
{
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "sista"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "nunna"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "madre"
},
{
"code": "tg",
"lang": "Tajik",
"roman": "rohiba",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "роҳиба"
},
{
"code": "tdt",
"lang": "Tetun Dili",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "madre"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "chii",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "ชี"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "แม่ชี"
},
{
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "btsun ma",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "བཙུན་མ"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "rahibe"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "monáxynja",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "мона́хиня"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "monáška",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "мона́шка"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "černýcja",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "черни́ця"
},
{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "rāhiba",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "راہِبَہ"
},
{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
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"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
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"feminine"
],
"word": "نَن"
},
{
"code": "ug",
"lang": "Uyghur",
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"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "راھىبە"
},
{
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "rohiba"
},
{
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "monashka"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "xơ"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "bà xơ"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "nữ tu sĩ"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"word": "nữ tu"
},
{
"code": "wym",
"lang": "Vilamovian",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
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"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "kleudan"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "hikleudan"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "jikleudan"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "member of a Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "lleian"
},
{
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "member of a non-Christian religious community of women",
"word": "non"
},
{
"code": "my",
"lang": "Burmese",
"roman": "sila.hrang",
"sense": "member of a non-Christian religious community of women",
"word": "သီလရှင်"
},
{
"code": "my",
"english": "mendicant Buddhist nun",
"lang": "Burmese",
"roman": "bhikhku.ni",
"sense": "member of a non-Christian religious community of women",
"word": "ဘိက္ခုနီ"
},
{
"code": "nan-hbl",
"lang": "Chinese",
"roman": "zh-min-nan",
"sense": "member of a non-Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"Hokkien"
],
"word": "尼姑"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "member of a non-Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mniška"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "member of a non-Christian religious community of women",
"word": "monaĥino"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "member of a non-Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "monxa"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "monazoni",
"sense": "member of a non-Christian religious community of women",
"word": "მონაზონი"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "monachí",
"sense": "member of a non-Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "μοναχή"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "maṭhvāsinī",
"sense": "member of a non-Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "मठवासिनी"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "tapasvinī",
"sense": "member of a non-Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "तपस्विनी"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "member of a non-Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "monaca"
},
{
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "cii",
"sense": "member of a non-Christian religious community of women",
"word": "ជី"
},
{
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "gelenmaa",
"sense": "member of a non-Christian religious community of women",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "гэлэнмаа"
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{
"code": "pl",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mniszka"
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{
"code": "th",
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"roman": "chii",
"sense": "member of a non-Christian religious community of women",
"word": "ชี"
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{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"sense": "member of a non-Christian religious community of women",
"word": "แม่ชี"
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{
"code": "bo",
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"word": "ཨ་ནི"
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{
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{
"code": "ug",
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"word": "راھىبە"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
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