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"expansion": "sengi (plural sengis or sengi)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"sen‧gi"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with historical senses"
],
"glosses": [
"A former (1967–1993) monetary unit of Zaire, one hundredth of a likuta, and one ten-thousandth of a zaire; it was issued only in ten sengi coins."
],
"links": [
[
"former",
"former#Adjective"
],
[
"monetary unit",
"monetary unit"
],
[
"Zaire",
"Zaire"
],
[
"one",
"one#Numeral"
],
[
"hundredth",
"hundredth"
],
[
"likuta",
"likuta"
],
[
"ten-thousandth",
"ten-thousandth"
],
[
"zaire",
"zaire"
],
[
"issued",
"issue#Verb"
],
[
"ten",
"ten#Numeral"
],
[
"coins",
"coin#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(historical) A former (1967–1993) monetary unit of Zaire, one hundredth of a likuta, and one ten-thousandth of a zaire; it was issued only in ten sengi coins."
],
"tags": [
"historical"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈsɛŋɡi/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/-ɡiː/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈsɛŋɡi/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
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}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "senghi"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "former monetary unit of Zaire",
"word": "sengi"
},
{
"code": "kg",
"lang": "Kongo",
"sense": "former monetary unit of Zaire",
"word": "sengi"
},
{
"code": "kg",
"lang": "Kongo",
"sense": "former monetary unit of Zaire",
"word": "senki"
}
],
"word": "sengi"
}
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