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"word": "ប្រេត"
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"sense": "a hungry ghost from Buddhist folklore",
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"roman": "praet",
"sense": "a hungry ghost from Buddhist folklore",
"word": "ប្រេត"
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"sense": "a hungry ghost from Buddhist folklore",
"word": "아귀"
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"word": "бирд"
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"sense": "a hungry ghost from Buddhist folklore",
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"sense": "a hungry ghost from Buddhist folklore",
"word": "ཡི་དྭགས"
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"sense": "a hungry ghost from Buddhist folklore",
"word": "prete"
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"lang": "Vietnamese",
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"sense": "a hungry ghost from Buddhist folklore",
"word": "ma đói"
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"sense": "a hungry ghost from Buddhist folklore",
"word": "ngạ quỷ"
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