See shea in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"sense": "tree",
"word": "sɔŋɔ"
},
{
"_dis1": "50 50",
"code": "dri",
"lang": "Lela",
"sense": "tree",
"word": "rìgá̱"
},
{
"_dis1": "50 50",
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "tree",
"word": "afrikinis sviestmedis"
},
{
"_dis1": "50 50",
"code": "mql",
"lang": "Mbelime",
"sense": "tree",
"word": "càǹbù"
},
{
"_dis1": "50 50",
"code": "mos",
"lang": "Moore",
"sense": "tree",
"word": "taanga"
},
{
"_dis1": "50 50",
"code": "naw",
"lang": "Nawuri",
"sense": "tree",
"word": "kʋdʋnpɔɔ"
},
{
"_dis1": "50 50",
"code": "nko",
"lang": "Nkonya",
"sense": "tree",
"word": "klenku oyi"
},
{
"_dis1": "50 50",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "tree",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "carité"
},
{
"_dis1": "50 50",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "dérevo Ši",
"sense": "tree",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "де́рево Ши"
},
{
"_dis1": "50 50",
"code": "sxw",
"lang": "Saxwe Gbe",
"sense": "tree",
"word": "limitin"
},
{
"_dis1": "50 50",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "tree",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "karité"
},
{
"_dis1": "50 50",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "tree",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "sheanötsträd"
},
{
"_dis1": "50 50",
"code": "tuz",
"lang": "Turka",
"sense": "tree",
"word": "mũsũɔ̃gu"
}
],
"word": "shea"
}
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"Rhymes:English/iːə/2 syllables",
"Saxwe Gbe terms in nonstandard scripts",
"Terms with Adele translations",
"Terms with Adja translations",
"Terms with Ashe translations",
"Terms with Bafanji translations",
"Terms with Bambara translations",
"Terms with Basaa translations",
"Terms with Bissa translations",
"Terms with Buli (Ghana) translations",
"Terms with Catalan translations",
"Terms with Cerma translations",
"Terms with Chumburung translations",
"Terms with Dagbani translations",
"Terms with Djimini translations",
"Terms with Dutch translations",
"Terms with Dyula translations",
"Terms with Esperanto translations",
"Terms with Farefare translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with Fula translations",
"Terms with Fungwa translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Gourmanchéma translations",
"Terms with Hausa translations",
"Terms with Ifè translations",
"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with Japanese translations",
"Terms with Kabiyé translations",
"Terms with Kasem translations",
"Terms with Lela translations",
"Terms with Lithuanian translations",
"Terms with Mandarin translations",
"Terms with Mbelime translations",
"Terms with Moore translations",
"Terms with Nawuri translations",
"Terms with Nkonya translations",
"Terms with Portuguese translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Saxwe Gbe translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"Terms with Swedish translations",
"Terms with Turka translations",
"en:Sapote family plants"
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{
"word": "shea butter"
}
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"name": "bor"
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},
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{
"categories": [
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"ref": "1799, Mungo Park, chapter XVI, in Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, pages 202–203:",
"text": "The people were every where employed in collecting the fruit of the Shea trees, from which they prepare the vegetable butter mentioned in former parts of this work. […] They are not planted by the natives, but are found growing naturally in the woods; and, in clearing wood land for cultivation, every tree is cut down but the Shea.",
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}
],
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"A tree (Vitellaria paradoxa) indigenous to Africa, occurring in Mali, Cameroon, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Togo, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Burkina Faso and Uganda."
],
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[
"tree",
"tree"
],
[
"Vitellaria paradoxa",
"Vitellaria paradoxa#Translingual"
],
[
"indigenous",
"indigenous"
]
]
},
{
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],
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[
"fruit",
"fruit"
],
[
"pulp",
"pulp"
]
],
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{
"word": "shea nut"
}
]
}
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},
{
"ipa": "/ʃeɪ/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ʃi.ə/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ʃɪə/"
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{
"rhymes": "-iːə"
}
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{
"sense": "tree",
"word": "shea tree"
},
{
"sense": "tree",
"word": "vitellaria"
},
{
"sense": "tree",
"word": "Butyrospermum parkii"
},
{
"sense": "tree",
"word": "B. paradoxum"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ade",
"lang": "Adele",
"sense": "tree",
"word": "dɩdɩnpɔ"
},
{
"code": "ajg",
"lang": "Adja",
"sense": "tree",
"word": "ayɔ"
},
{
"code": "ahs",
"lang": "Ashe",
"sense": "tree",
"word": "ijajar"
},
{
"code": "bfj",
"lang": "Bafanji",
"sense": "tree",
"word": "mbʉʉ"
},
{
"code": "bas",
"lang": "Basaa",
"sense": "tree",
"word": "njàp"
},
{
"code": "bib",
"lang": "Bissa",
"sense": "tree",
"word": "kur"
},
{
"code": "bwu",
"lang": "Buli (Ghana)",
"sense": "tree",
"word": "cham"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "tree",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "karité"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "tree",
"word": "乳油木"
},
{
"code": "ncu",
"lang": "Chumburung",
"sense": "tree",
"word": "kuroŋku"
},
{
"code": "dyi",
"lang": "Djimini",
"sense": "tree",
"word": "letige"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "tree",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Sheaboom"
},
{
"code": "dyu",
"lang": "Dyula",
"sense": "tree",
"word": "si"
},
{
"code": "dyu",
"lang": "Dyula",
"sense": "tree",
"word": "sisun"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "tree",
"word": "buterarbo"
},
{
"code": "gur",
"lang": "Farefare",
"sense": "tree",
"word": "tã'aŋa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "tree",
"word": "voipuu"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "tree",
"word": "karité"
},
{
"code": "ff",
"lang": "Fula",
"sense": "tree",
"word": "kaareehi"
},
{
"code": "ula",
"lang": "Fungwa",
"sense": "tree",
"word": "jígò"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "tree",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Karitébaum"
},
{
"code": "gux",
"lang": "Gourmanché",
"sense": "tree",
"word": "sàànbu"
},
{
"code": "ha",
"lang": "Hausa",
"sense": "tree",
"word": "kaɗanya"
},
{
"code": "ife",
"lang": "Ifé",
"sense": "tree",
"word": "ɛmɛ"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "tree",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "karité"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "shiābatāno-ki",
"sense": "tree",
"word": "シアーバターノキ"
},
{
"code": "kbp",
"lang": "Kabiye",
"sense": "tree",
"word": "somuu"
},
{
"code": "xsm",
"lang": "Kasem",
"sense": "tree",
"word": "sɔŋɔ"
},
{
"code": "dri",
"lang": "Lela",
"sense": "tree",
"word": "rìgá̱"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "tree",
"word": "afrikinis sviestmedis"
},
{
"code": "mql",
"lang": "Mbelime",
"sense": "tree",
"word": "càǹbù"
},
{
"code": "mos",
"lang": "Moore",
"sense": "tree",
"word": "taanga"
},
{
"code": "naw",
"lang": "Nawuri",
"sense": "tree",
"word": "kʋdʋnpɔɔ"
},
{
"code": "nko",
"lang": "Nkonya",
"sense": "tree",
"word": "klenku oyi"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "tree",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "carité"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "dérevo Ši",
"sense": "tree",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "де́рево Ши"
},
{
"code": "sxw",
"lang": "Saxwe Gbe",
"sense": "tree",
"word": "limitin"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "tree",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "karité"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "tree",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "sheanötsträd"
},
{
"code": "tuz",
"lang": "Turka",
"sense": "tree",
"word": "mũsũɔ̃gu"
},
{
"code": "bm",
"lang": "Bambara",
"sense": "fruit",
"word": "kɔlɔ"
},
{
"code": "bib",
"lang": "Bissa",
"sense": "fruit",
"word": "ɲɔɔr"
},
{
"code": "bwu",
"lang": "Buli (Ghana)",
"sense": "fruit",
"word": "jigsidi"
},
{
"code": "bwu",
"lang": "Buli (Ghana)",
"sense": "fruit",
"word": "bakesing"
},
{
"code": "bwu",
"lang": "Buli (Ghana)",
"sense": "fruit",
"word": "bagiak"
},
{
"code": "bwu",
"lang": "Buli (Ghana)",
"sense": "fruit",
"word": "pileri"
},
{
"code": "cme",
"lang": "Cerma",
"sense": "fruit",
"word": "musɛ̃lle"
},
{
"code": "cme",
"lang": "Cerma",
"sense": "fruit",
"word": "berre"
},
{
"code": "ncu",
"lang": "Chumburung",
"sense": "fruit",
"word": "kigyamwee"
},
{
"code": "ncu",
"lang": "Chumburung",
"sense": "fruit",
"word": "kigyamuree"
},
{
"code": "ncu",
"lang": "Chumburung",
"sense": "fruit",
"word": "ke̱le̱ŋpɔ"
},
{
"code": "dag",
"lang": "Dagbani",
"sense": "fruit",
"word": "taani"
},
{
"code": "dyi",
"lang": "Djimini",
"sense": "fruit",
"word": "logombyɔ"
},
{
"code": "dyi",
"lang": "Djimini",
"sense": "fruit",
"word": "logolo"
},
{
"code": "dyi",
"lang": "Djimini",
"sense": "fruit",
"word": "lopɛrɛgɛ"
},
{
"code": "dyu",
"lang": "Dyula",
"sense": "fruit",
"word": "kɔlɔ"
},
{
"code": "dyu",
"lang": "Dyula",
"sense": "fruit",
"word": "sikɔlɔ"
},
{
"code": "dyu",
"lang": "Dyula",
"sense": "fruit",
"word": "simɔ"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "fruit",
"word": "voipuun pähkinä"
},
{
"code": "ff",
"lang": "Fula",
"sense": "fruit",
"word": "holoore"
},
{
"code": "ff",
"lang": "Fula",
"sense": "fruit",
"word": "haareere"
},
{
"code": "gux",
"lang": "Gourmanché",
"sense": "fruit",
"word": "sànkpèbu"
},
{
"code": "gux",
"lang": "Gourmanché",
"sense": "fruit",
"word": "sàànli"
},
{
"code": "gux",
"lang": "Gourmanché",
"sense": "fruit",
"word": "sàngbángu"
},
{
"code": "gux",
"lang": "Gourmanché",
"sense": "fruit",
"word": "sànkááli"
},
{
"code": "gux",
"lang": "Gourmanché",
"sense": "fruit",
"word": "sànguoli"
},
{
"code": "ha",
"lang": "Hausa",
"sense": "fruit",
"word": "kaɗanya"
},
{
"code": "ife",
"lang": "Ifè",
"sense": "fruit",
"word": "kpótsa"
},
{
"code": "kbp",
"lang": "Kabiye",
"sense": "fruit",
"word": "cʋnɛ"
},
{
"code": "kbp",
"lang": "Kabiye",
"sense": "fruit",
"word": "aga"
},
{
"code": "kbp",
"lang": "Kabiye",
"sense": "fruit",
"word": "sʋŋgbaɖʋʋ"
},
{
"code": "xsm",
"lang": "Kasem",
"sense": "fruit",
"word": "sɩʋ"
},
{
"code": "xsm",
"lang": "Kasem",
"sense": "fruit",
"word": "swɛn"
},
{
"code": "xsm",
"lang": "Kasem",
"sense": "fruit",
"word": "baguə"
},
{
"code": "mql",
"lang": "Mbelime",
"sense": "fruit",
"word": "wùòfɛ̀"
},
{
"code": "mos",
"lang": "Moore",
"sense": "fruit",
"word": "taamde"
},
{
"code": "mos",
"lang": "Moore",
"sense": "fruit",
"word": "zoonfo"
},
{
"code": "mos",
"lang": "Moore",
"sense": "fruit",
"word": "zũunfu"
},
{
"code": "sxw",
"lang": "Saxwe Gbe",
"sense": "fruit",
"word": "limikun"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "fruit",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "sheanöt"
},
{
"code": "tuz",
"lang": "Turka",
"sense": "fruit",
"word": "viiri"
}
],
"word": "shea"
}
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