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{
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"word": "pronghorn"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "prong-set"
}
],
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{
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"2": "enm",
"3": "pronge"
},
"expansion": "Middle English pronge",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gml",
"3": "prange",
"4": "",
"5": "stick, restraining device"
},
"expansion": "Middle Low German prange (“stick, restraining device”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gml",
"2": "prangen",
"3": "",
"4": "to press, pinch"
},
"expansion": "prangen (“to press, pinch”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
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"2": "osx",
"3": "*prangan"
},
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"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
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"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*prangan"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *prangan",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*pranganą",
"t": "to press"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *pranganą (“to press”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*(s)preng-",
"4": "",
"5": "to wrap up, constrict"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *(s)preng- (“to wrap up, constrict”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "lt",
"2": "springstù",
"3": "",
"4": "to choke, become choked or obstructed"
},
"expansion": "Lithuanian springstù (“to choke, become choked or obstructed”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "lv",
"2": "sprañgât",
"3": "",
"4": "cord, constrict"
},
"expansion": "Latvian sprañgât (“cord, constrict”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "σπαργανόω",
"3": "",
"4": "to swaddle"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek σπαργανόω (sparganóō, “to swaddle”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "σπάργανον",
"3": "",
"4": "swaddling cloth"
},
"expansion": "σπάργανον (spárganon, “swaddling cloth”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "prank"
},
"expansion": "prank",
"name": "l"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "prance"
},
"expansion": "prance",
"name": "l"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "prink"
},
"expansion": "prink",
"name": "l"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English pronge, perhaps from Middle Low German prange (“stick, restraining device”), from prangen (“to press, pinch”), from Old Saxon *prangan, from Proto-West Germanic *prangan, from Proto-Germanic *pranganą (“to press”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)preng- (“to wrap up, constrict”).\nAkin to Lithuanian springstù (“to choke, become choked or obstructed”), Latvian sprañgât (“cord, constrict”), Ancient Greek σπαργανόω (sparganóō, “to swaddle”), σπάργανον (spárganon, “swaddling cloth”). See also prank, prance, prink.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "prongs",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {},
"expansion": "prong (plural prongs)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
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"pos": "noun",
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "tine"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "tooth"
}
],
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{
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{
"_dis": "91 4 4",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "a pitchfork with four prongs",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A thin, pointed, projecting part, as of an antler or a fork or similar tool. A tine."
],
"id": "en-prong-en-noun-8bZMR1ng",
"links": [
[
"point",
"point"
],
[
"project",
"project"
],
[
"antler",
"antler"
],
[
"fork",
"fork"
],
[
"tine",
"tine"
]
],
"translations": [
{
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zǎbec",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "зъбец"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pua"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "hrot"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"word": "spids"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"word": "tand"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tand"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "punt"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "spits"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "piek"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"word": "kärki"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"word": "piikki"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "dent"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pointe"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "broche"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "galla"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "puga"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "dente"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Zinke"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Zacke"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Zacken"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Stift"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Ende"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Sprosse"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Krappe"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Stachel"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Dorn"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Stab"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "stórthunx",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "στόρθυγξ"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"word": "fog"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"word": "ág"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "gaddur"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "beangán"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "punta"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "dente"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "rebbio"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "parog",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "парог"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "zabec",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "забец"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"word": "kātara"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tind"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tind"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "çatal",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"word": "چاتال"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "szpica"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "grot"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kolec"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ząb"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "badyl (of an antler)"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ponta"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "dente"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "dinte"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "špenjók",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"word": "шпенёк"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zubéc",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"word": "зубе́ц"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "otróg",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "отро́г"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "rožók",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "рожо́к"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"word": "vetva"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"word": "výbežok"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"word": "kolík"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"word": "hrot"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "diente"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "prolongación"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "punta"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"word": "spets"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"word": "klo"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"word": "led"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "udd"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"word": "sanga ng sungay"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "the two prongs of a river",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "the second prong of the argument",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A branch; a fork."
],
"id": "en-prong-en-noun-Zl4W7lap",
"links": [
[
"branch",
"branch"
],
[
"fork",
"fork"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(sometimes figurative) A branch; a fork."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"sometimes"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "razklonenie",
"sense": "branch",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "разклонение"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "branch",
"word": "gren"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "branch",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "arm"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "branch",
"word": "haara"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "branch",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bras"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "branch",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "galla"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "branch",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Zweig"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "branch",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Arm"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "branch",
"word": "ág"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "branch",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "beangán"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "branch",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ramo"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "branch",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ramificazione"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "branch",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "biforcazione"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "granka",
"sense": "branch",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "гранка"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "branch",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "braço"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "branch",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ramo"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "branch",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "braț"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vetvʹ",
"sense": "branch",
"word": "ветвь"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "branch",
"word": "vetva"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1977, John Ironstone, Orphan, page 102",
"text": "One look at that lifeguard's prong gave me a throbber like a baseball bat — not quite that big, of course, but at least that hard!",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"text": "2008, Andy Zaltzman on The Bugle podcast, episode 34, You Will Know Us By Our Knobbly Fruit.\nHang on... That looks like... No, it can't be. Is that my wang!? Micky Paintbrush, have you painted my papal prong on that nudy man!?"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The penis."
],
"id": "en-prong-en-noun-JrEPyTmp",
"links": [
[
"penis",
"penis"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(colloquial) The penis."
],
"tags": [
"colloquial"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/pɹɒŋ/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/pɹɔŋ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
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"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "çatal",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"word": "چاتال"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "szpica"
},
{
"code": "pl",
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"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "grot"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kolec"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ząb"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "badyl (of an antler)"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ponta"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "dente"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "dinte"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "špenjók",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"word": "шпенёк"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zubéc",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"word": "зубе́ц"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "otróg",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "отро́г"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "rožók",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "рожо́к"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"word": "vetva"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"word": "výbežok"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"word": "kolík"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"word": "hrot"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "diente"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "prolongación"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "punta"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"word": "spets"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"word": "klo"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"word": "led"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "udd"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "thin, pointed, projecting part",
"word": "sanga ng sungay"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "razklonenie",
"sense": "branch",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "разклонение"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "branch",
"word": "gren"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "branch",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "arm"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "branch",
"word": "haara"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "branch",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bras"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "branch",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "galla"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "branch",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Zweig"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "branch",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Arm"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "branch",
"word": "ág"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "branch",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "beangán"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "branch",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ramo"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "branch",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ramificazione"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "branch",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "biforcazione"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "granka",
"sense": "branch",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "гранка"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "branch",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "braço"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "branch",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ramo"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "branch",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "braț"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vetvʹ",
"sense": "branch",
"word": "ветвь"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "branch",
"word": "vetva"
}
],
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}
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"English countable nouns",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
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"English terms derived from Middle Low German",
"English terms derived from Old Saxon",
"English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English verbs",
"Rhymes:English/ɒŋ",
"Rhymes:English/ɒŋ/1 syllable"
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"name": "der"
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"4": "",
"5": "stick, restraining device"
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"name": "der"
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"name": "der"
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{
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"name": "der"
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
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"name": "der"
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{
"args": {
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"3": "",
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"3": "",
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"name": "cog"
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{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "σπαργανόω",
"3": "",
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{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
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"3": "",
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{
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
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},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
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},
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"name": "l"
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"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "pronging",
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"participle",
"present"
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},
{
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"past"
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},
{
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}
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"pos": "verb",
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{
"glosses": [
"To pierce or poke with, or as if with, a prong."
],
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[
"pierce",
"pierce"
],
[
"poke",
"poke#Verb"
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[
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]
}
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"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/pɹɒŋ/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/pɹɔŋ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/pɹɑŋ/",
"tags": [
"cot-caught-merger"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɒŋ"
},
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"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-prong.wav",
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-prong.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0c/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Wodencafe-prong.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Wodencafe-prong.wav.mp3",
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"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "boda",
"sense": "to pierce or poke with, or as if with, a prong",
"word": "бода"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "proboždam",
"sense": "to pierce or poke with, or as if with, a prong",
"word": "пробождам"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "promušvam",
"sense": "to pierce or poke with, or as if with, a prong",
"word": "промушвам"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to pierce or poke with, or as if with, a prong",
"word": "aufspießen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to pierce or poke with, or as if with, a prong",
"word": "spießen"
}
],
"word": "prong"
}
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