See zee in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"roman": "jeḍ",
"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
"word": "জেড"
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"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
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"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
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"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
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"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
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"code": "fo",
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"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
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"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
"word": "tseta"
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"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
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"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
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"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
"word": "zet"
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"lang": "French",
"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
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],
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"tags": [
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"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
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"word": "Zet"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
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"tags": [
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"roman": "zent",
"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
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"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "zed",
"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
"tags": [
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"word": "זֵד"
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"roman": "zī",
"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
"word": "ज़ी"
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"roman": "zeḍ",
"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
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"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
"word": "zé"
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"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
"tags": [
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"word": "zeta"
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"code": "io",
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"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
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"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
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"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
"word": "zae"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
"tags": [
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"word": "zeta"
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"code": "ja",
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"roman": "zetto",
"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
"word": "ゼット"
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"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "zeddo",
"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
"word": "ゼッド"
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"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "zī",
"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
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"word": "ズィー"
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"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "jedeu",
"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
"word": "제드"
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{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"note": "same as \"G\"",
"roman": "ji",
"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
"word": "지"
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"code": "la",
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"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
"word": "zēta"
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"code": "ms",
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"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
"word": "zed"
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"code": "mr",
"lang": "Marathi",
"roman": "jheḍ",
"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
"word": "झेड"
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"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
"tags": [
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"word": "izèda"
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{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "fa",
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"roman": "zed",
"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
"word": "زد"
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{
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"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
"word": "zet"
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{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
"tags": [
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"word": "zê"
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"roman": "zɛd",
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"word": "зэд"
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"word": "зэт"
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"word": "zeta"
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"word": "A to Zee"
},
{
"word": "oh zee"
},
{
"word": "oh-zee"
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{
"word": "ohzee"
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{
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{
"word": "ozee"
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{
"word": "zee bar"
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"ipa": "/ˈzeɪː/",
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"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
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{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
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"word": "zeta"
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{
"code": "cs",
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"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
"word": "zet"
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{
"code": "nl",
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"code": "eo",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
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"code": "fi",
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"word": "zet"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "zède"
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{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "zeta"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "Zet"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
"tags": [
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{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "zent",
"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
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"neuter"
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"word": "ζεντ"
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{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "zi",
"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
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"word": "ζι"
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{
"code": "haw",
"lang": "Hawaiian",
"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
"word": "zeta"
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{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "zed",
"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
"tags": [
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"word": "זֵד"
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{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "zī",
"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
"word": "ज़ी"
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{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "zeḍ",
"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
"word": "ज़ेड"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
"word": "zé"
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{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "zeta"
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{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
"word": "ze"
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{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
"word": "zet"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
"word": "zae"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "zeta"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "zetto",
"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
"word": "ゼット"
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{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "zeddo",
"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
"word": "ゼッド"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "zī",
"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
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"word": "ズィー"
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{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "jedeu",
"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
"word": "제드"
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"code": "ko",
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"note": "same as \"G\"",
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"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
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"code": "la",
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"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
"word": "zēta"
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{
"code": "ms",
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"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
"word": "zed"
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{
"code": "mr",
"lang": "Marathi",
"roman": "jheḍ",
"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
"word": "झेड"
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{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
"tags": [
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{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "zed",
"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
"word": "زد"
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{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "zi",
"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
"word": "زی"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
"word": "zet"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
"tags": [
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"word": "zê"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zɛd",
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"neuter"
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{
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"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
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{
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"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
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"neuter"
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},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
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{
"code": "sv",
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{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
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{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "sii",
"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
"word": "ซี"
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{
"code": "th",
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"roman": "sɛ̂t",
"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
"word": "แซด"
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{
"code": "tr",
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"sense": "name of the letter Z, z",
"word": "ze"
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"code": "cy",
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"singular",
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"present"
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"zzz",
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"(intransitive, informal) To sleep or nap. (Compare zzz, catch some z's.)"
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"intransitive"
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"To zigzag; to move with sharp alternating turns."
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"(intransitive, rare) To zigzag; to move with sharp alternating turns."
],
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"ipa": "/ˈzeɪː/",
"tags": [
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"rhymes": "-iː"
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"word": "zee"
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"word": "the"
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{
"word": "representing primarily French or German accented English"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-17 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-02-02 using wiktextract (ca09fec and c40eb85). 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.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.