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"roman": "dtaa-mɛɛo",
"sense": "hole",
"word": "ตาแมว"
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"word": "gözetleme deliği"
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"sense": "hole",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "kikhål"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "dtaa-mɛɛo",
"sense": "hole",
"word": "ตาแมว"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "hole",
"word": "gözetleme deliği"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "hole",
"word": "kapı dürbünü"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "hole",
"word": "logedahog"
}
],
"word": "peephole"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 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.
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