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{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms borrowed from Russian",
"English terms derived from Russian",
"en:Cyrillic letter names"
],
"etymology_number": 6,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ru",
"3": "я"
},
"expansion": "Russian я (ja)",
"name": "bor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Russian я (ja).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "yas",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "ya (plural yas)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"A letter of the Cyrillic alphabet: Я, я."
],
"links": [
[
"Я",
"Я"
],
[
"я",
"я"
]
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "ja",
"sense": "a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet \"Я/я\"",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "я"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet \"Я/я\"",
"word": "ja"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ja",
"sense": "a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet \"Я/я\"",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "я"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "ja",
"sense": "a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet \"Я/я\"",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "я"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"YA"
],
"word": "ya"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-24 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (82c8ff9 and f4967a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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