"truffle" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈtɹʌf.l̩/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-truffle.wav [Southern-England] Forms: truffles [plural]
Rhymes: -ʌfəl Etymology: From French truffe (previously trufle) (whence Danish and Norwegian trøffel, Swedish tryffel, German Trüffel), which originates from Old Occitan. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*tewh₂-}}, {{bor|en|fr|truffe}} French truffe, {{m|fro|trufle}} trufle, {{cog|no|trøffel}} Norwegian trøffel, {{cog|sv|tryffel}} Swedish tryffel, {{cog|de|Trüffel}} German Trüffel, {{der|en|pro|-}} Old Occitan Head templates: {{en-noun}} truffle (plural truffles)
  1. Any of various edible fungi, of the genus Tuber, that grow in the soil in southern Europe; the earthnut. Categories (lifeform): Pezizales order fungi Synonyms: earthnut Translations (tuber): truffel (Afrikaans), knolswam (Afrikaans), ὕδνον (húdnon) [neuter] (Ancient Greek), كَمْأَة (kamʔa) [feminine] (Arabic), كماية [North-Levantine-Arabic, feminine] (Arabic), գետնասունկ (getnasunk) (Armenian), դոմբալա (dombala) (Armenian), dombalan (Azerbaijani), boilur [inanimate] (Basque), тру́фель (trúfjelʹ) [masculine] (Belarusian), тру́фля (trúflja) [feminine] (Belarusian), трю́фел (trjúfel) [masculine] (Bulgarian), tòfona (Catalan), دۆمەڵان (domellan) (Central Kurdish), 塊菌 (Chinese Cantonese), 块菌 (faai³ kwan²) (Chinese Cantonese), 松露 (sōnglù) (Chinese Mandarin), domalan (Crimean Tatar), lanýž (Czech), trøffel [common-gender] (Danish), truffel (Dutch), trühvel (Estonian), trøfla [feminine] (Faroese), tryffeli (Finnish), truffe [feminine] (French), Trüffel [feminine] (German), ύτανο (ýtano) [neuter] (Greek), τρούφα (troúfa) [feminine] (Greek), כְּמֵהָה (kmehá) [feminine] (Hebrew), כְּמֵהִין (kmehín) [feminine, plural] (Hebrew), szarvasgomba (Hungarian), jarðkeppur (Icelandic), strufal [masculine] (Irish), tartufo [masculine] (Italian), 西洋松露 (seiyōshōro) (alt: せいようしょうろ) (Japanese), トリュフ (toryufu) (Japanese), tūber [neuter] (Latin), tertufulus [New-Latin, masculine] (Latin), բողբուճ (boġbuč) (Middle Armenian), kiyarik (Northern Kurdish), یر الماسی (yer elması) (Ottoman Turkish), قارچ دمبلان (qârč-e dombalân) (Persian), trufla [feminine] (Polish), trufa [feminine] (Portuguese), túbera [feminine] (Portuguese), trufă (Romanian), трю́фель (trjúfelʹ) [masculine] (Russian), та̀ртуф [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), tàrtuf [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), hľuzovka [feminine] (Slovak), tartuf [masculine] (Slovene), gomoljika [feminine] (Slovene), trufa [feminine] (Spanish), tryffel [common-gender] (Swedish), trupo (Tagalog), trüf mantarı (Turkish), трюфель (trjufelʹ) [masculine] (Ukrainian), cloronen [feminine] (Welsh), cloronen y moch (english: summer) [feminine] (Welsh), cloronen Ffrengig (english: black) [feminine] (Welsh), טרופֿליע (truflye) [feminine] (Yiddish), טריפֿל (trifl) [neuter] (Yiddish), טרופֿל (trufl) [masculine] (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-truffle-en-noun-03OQitZd Disambiguation of Pezizales order fungi: 73 27 Disambiguation of 'tuber': 95 5
  2. (by analogy) Ellipsis of chocolate truffle (“creamy chocolate confection, in the form of a ball, covered with cocoa powder”). Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis Alternative form of: chocolate truffle (extra: creamy chocolate confection, in the form of a ball, covered with cocoa powder) Categories (topical): Chocolate
    Sense id: en-truffle-en-noun-80UdwpN1 Disambiguation of Chocolate: 38 62 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, North Levantine Arabic terms with redundant script codes Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 31 69 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 22 78 Disambiguation of North Levantine Arabic terms with redundant script codes: 38 62
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Inflected forms

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          "sense": "tuber",
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          "lang": "Basque",
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          "code": "yue",
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          "sense": "tuber",
          "word": "塊菌"
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          "code": "yue",
          "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
          "roman": "faai³ kwan²",
          "sense": "tuber",
          "word": "块菌"
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "sōnglù",
          "sense": "tuber",
          "word": "松露"
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          "word": "domalan"
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          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "tuber",
          "word": "lanýž"
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          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "tuber",
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          "lang": "Dutch",
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          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "et",
          "lang": "Estonian",
          "sense": "tuber",
          "word": "trühvel"
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          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "fo",
          "lang": "Faroese",
          "sense": "tuber",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "trøfla"
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          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "tuber",
          "word": "tryffeli"
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          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "tuber",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "truffe"
        },
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          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "tuber",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "Trüffel"
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          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "ýtano",
          "sense": "tuber",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
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          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "troúfa",
          "sense": "tuber",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "code": "grc",
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          "roman": "húdnon",
          "sense": "tuber",
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            "neuter"
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        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "kmehá",
          "sense": "tuber",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "כְּמֵהָה"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "kmehín",
          "sense": "tuber",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "plural"
          ],
          "word": "כְּמֵהִין"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "tuber",
          "word": "szarvasgomba"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "tuber",
          "word": "jarðkeppur"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "tuber",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "strufal"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "tuber",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "tartufo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "alt": "せいようしょうろ",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "seiyōshōro",
          "sense": "tuber",
          "word": "西洋松露"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "toryufu",
          "sense": "tuber",
          "word": "トリュフ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "ckb",
          "lang": "Central Kurdish",
          "roman": "domellan",
          "sense": "tuber",
          "word": "دۆمەڵان"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "kmr",
          "lang": "Northern Kurdish",
          "sense": "tuber",
          "word": "kiyarik"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "tuber",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "tūber"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "tuber",
          "tags": [
            "New-Latin",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "tertufulus"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "ota",
          "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
          "roman": "yer elması",
          "sense": "tuber",
          "word": "یر الماسی"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "qârč-e dombalân",
          "sense": "tuber",
          "word": "قارچ دمبلان"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "tuber",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "trufla"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "tuber",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "trufa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "tuber",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "túbera"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "tuber",
          "word": "trufă"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "trjúfelʹ",
          "sense": "tuber",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "трю́фель"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "tuber",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "та̀ртуф"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "tuber",
          "tags": [
            "Roman",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "tàrtuf"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "tuber",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "hľuzovka"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "sl",
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "tuber",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "tartuf"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "sl",
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "tuber",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "gomoljika"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "tuber",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "trufa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "tuber",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "tryffel"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "tuber",
          "word": "trupo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "tuber",
          "word": "trüf mantarı"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "trjufelʹ",
          "sense": "tuber",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "трюфель"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "tuber",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "cloronen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "cy",
          "english": "summer",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "tuber",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "cloronen y moch"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "cy",
          "english": "black",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "tuber",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "cloronen Ffrengig"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "yi",
          "lang": "Yiddish",
          "roman": "truflye",
          "sense": "tuber",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "טרופֿליע"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "yi",
          "lang": "Yiddish",
          "roman": "trifl",
          "sense": "tuber",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "טריפֿל"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "yi",
          "lang": "Yiddish",
          "roman": "trufl",
          "sense": "tuber",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "טרופֿל"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "creamy chocolate confection, in the form of a ball, covered with cocoa powder",
          "word": "chocolate truffle"
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      "word": "truffle hog"
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      "word": "truffle oil"
    },
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      "word": "truffle pig"
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      "sense": "tuber",
      "word": "truffel"
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      "sense": "tuber",
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      "roman": "getnasunk",
      "sense": "tuber",
      "word": "գետնասունկ"
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      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "dombala",
      "sense": "tuber",
      "word": "դոմբալա"
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      "sense": "tuber",
      "word": "բողբուճ"
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      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "tuber",
      "word": "dombalan"
    },
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      "code": "eu",
      "lang": "Basque",
      "sense": "tuber",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "trúfjelʹ",
      "sense": "tuber",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "trúflja",
      "sense": "tuber",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "тру́фля"
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "trjúfel",
      "sense": "tuber",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "трю́фел"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "tuber",
      "word": "tòfona"
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    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "sense": "tuber",
      "word": "塊菌"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "roman": "faai³ kwan²",
      "sense": "tuber",
      "word": "块菌"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "sōnglù",
      "sense": "tuber",
      "word": "松露"
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      "code": "crh",
      "lang": "Crimean Tatar",
      "sense": "tuber",
      "word": "domalan"
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    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "tuber",
      "word": "lanýž"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "tuber",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "trøffel"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "tuber",
      "word": "truffel"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "tuber",
      "word": "trühvel"
    },
    {
      "code": "fo",
      "lang": "Faroese",
      "sense": "tuber",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "trøfla"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "tuber",
      "word": "tryffeli"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "tuber",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "truffe"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "tuber",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Trüffel"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "ýtano",
      "sense": "tuber",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "troúfa",
      "sense": "tuber",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "code": "grc",
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      "roman": "húdnon",
      "sense": "tuber",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "ὕδνον"
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      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "kmehá",
      "sense": "tuber",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "כְּמֵהָה"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
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      "sense": "tuber",
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        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "כְּמֵהִין"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "tuber",
      "word": "szarvasgomba"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
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      "sense": "tuber",
      "word": "jarðkeppur"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "tuber",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "strufal"
    },
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "tuber",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "tartufo"
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      "sense": "tuber",
      "word": "西洋松露"
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      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
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      "code": "kmr",
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      "sense": "tuber",
      "word": "kiyarik"
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      "sense": "tuber",
      "tags": [
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    },
    {
      "code": "la",
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      "sense": "tuber",
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      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "yer elması",
      "sense": "tuber",
      "word": "یر الماسی"
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      "code": "fa",
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      "roman": "qârč-e dombalân",
      "sense": "tuber",
      "word": "قارچ دمبلان"
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "tuber",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "trufla"
    },
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "tuber",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "trufa"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "tuber",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "túbera"
    },
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      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "tuber",
      "word": "trufă"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "trjúfelʹ",
      "sense": "tuber",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "трю́фель"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "tuber",
      "tags": [
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        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "та̀ртуф"
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      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "tuber",
      "tags": [
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        "masculine"
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      "word": "tàrtuf"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "tuber",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "hľuzovka"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "tuber",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tartuf"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "tuber",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "gomoljika"
    },
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "tuber",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "trufa"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "tuber",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "tryffel"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "tuber",
      "word": "trupo"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "tuber",
      "word": "trüf mantarı"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "trjufelʹ",
      "sense": "tuber",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "трюфель"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "tuber",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cloronen"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "english": "summer",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "tuber",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "cloronen y moch"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "english": "black",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "tuber",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "truflye",
      "sense": "tuber",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "טרופֿליע"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "trifl",
      "sense": "tuber",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "trufl",
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      "word": "טרופֿל"
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}

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