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"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "omeruta no okite",
"sense": "code of silence amongst members of the Mafia or other criminal organization",
"word": "オメルタの掟"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "omereuta",
"sense": "code of silence amongst members of the Mafia or other criminal organization",
"word": "오메르타"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "code of silence amongst members of the Mafia or other criminal organization",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "omerta"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "omertâ",
"sense": "code of silence amongst members of the Mafia or other criminal organization",
"word": "اومرتا"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "omertá",
"sense": "code of silence amongst members of the Mafia or other criminal organization",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "омерта́"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "omérta",
"sense": "code of silence amongst members of the Mafia or other criminal organization",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "оме́рта"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "code of silence amongst members of the Mafia or other criminal organization",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "омерта"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "code of silence amongst members of the Mafia or other criminal organization",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "omerta"
},
{
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "code of silence amongst members of the Mafia or other criminal organization",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "umirtà"
},
{
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "code of silence amongst members of the Mafia or other criminal organization",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "umirtati"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "omertá",
"sense": "code of silence amongst members of the Mafia or other criminal organization",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "омерта́"
}
],
"word": "omertà"
}
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