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"word": "საქსოფონი"
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"sense": "a musical instrument of the woodwind family",
"word": "សាក់សូហ្វូន"
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"sense": "a musical instrument of the woodwind family",
"word": "색소폰"
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{
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"3": "saxophone"
},
"expansion": "French saxophone",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "-o-",
"3": ""
},
"expansion": "-o-",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "-phone",
"3": "",
"4": "something that makes a sound"
},
"expansion": "-phone (“something that makes a sound”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "grc",
"3": "φωνή",
"4": "",
"5": "sound, voice"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound, voice”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "de",
"3": "-"
},
"expansion": "German",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "Sachs",
"3": "",
"4": "Saxon"
},
"expansion": "Sachs (“Saxon”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "Sax",
"3": "-o-",
"4": "-phone"
},
"expansion": "Sax + -o- + -phone",
"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from French saxophone, a combination of the surname of its inventor Adolphe Sax (1814–1894) + -o- + -phone (“something that makes a sound”), from Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound, voice”). The first element surname is a variant of the German Sachs (“Saxon”). Analyzable as Sax + -o- + -phone.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "saxophones",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "saxophoning",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "saxophoned",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "saxophoned",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "saxophone (third-person singular simple present saxophones, present participle saxophoning, simple past and past participle saxophoned)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"To play the saxophone."
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈsæksəfoʊn/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"audio": "En-us-saxophone.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/42/En-us-saxophone.ogg/En-us-saxophone.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/En-us-saxophone.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "audio (US)"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Adolphe Sax"
],
"word": "saxophone"
}
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