See beka in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"english": "Pacific flying fox (Pteropus tonganus)",
"translation": "Pacific flying fox (Pteropus tonganus)",
"word": "beka dina"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"english": "Samoa flying fox (Pteropus samoensis)",
"translation": "Samoa flying fox (Pteropus samoensis)",
"word": "beka lulu"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"english": "night owl, person active only at night; night bat",
"tags": [
"literally",
"slang"
],
"translation": "night owl, person active only at night; night bat",
"word": "beka ni bogi"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"english": "armpit boil; bat-like lump",
"tags": [
"literally"
],
"translation": "armpit boil; bat-like lump",
"word": "kirikiribeka"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"english": "to bring/find one's own food, to not rely on others; to go like a bat",
"tags": [
"literally"
],
"translation": "to bring/find one's own food, to not rely on others; to go like a bat",
"word": "lako vakabeka"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"english": "something extremely sweet-tasting; bat thrush",
"tags": [
"literally"
],
"translation": "something extremely sweet-tasting; bat thrush",
"word": "macake na beka"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"english": "to stand around doing nothing (while others work); bat-beating",
"tags": [
"literally"
],
"translation": "to stand around doing nothing (while others work); bat-beating",
"word": "samusamu beka"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"english": "neatly arranged; arranged like bat teeth",
"tags": [
"literally"
],
"translation": "neatly arranged; arranged like bat teeth",
"word": "tuvani vaka bati ni beka"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"english": "to bring/find one's own food, to not rely on others; to fly like a bat",
"tags": [
"literally"
],
"translation": "to bring/find one's own food, to not rely on others; to fly like a bat",
"word": "vuka vakabeka"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fj",
"2": "poz-oce-pro",
"3": "*bʷeka"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Oceanic *bʷeka",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Central Pacific *bekwa, from Proto-Oceanic *bʷeka. The sense of “boil in the armpit” refers to the person affected holding up their arm like a bat’s wing.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fj",
"2": "noun"
},
"expansion": "beka",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Fijian",
"lang_code": "fj",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "78 22",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Fijian entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "80 20",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "fj",
"name": "Bats",
"orig": "fj:Bats",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "70 30",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "fj",
"name": "Medical signs and symptoms",
"orig": "fj:Medical signs and symptoms",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
10,
14
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
5,
15
]
],
"english": "Many fruit bats eat fruits such as bananas.",
"text": "E levu na beka era kana vuata me vaka na jaina.",
"translation": "Many fruit bats eat fruits such as bananas.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"bat, especially flying fox (any bat of the family Pteropodidae)"
],
"id": "en-beka-fj-noun-5xG1qdj9",
"links": [
[
"bat",
"bat"
],
[
"flying fox",
"flying fox"
],
[
"Pteropodidae",
"Pteropodidae#Translingual"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "bekwa"
},
{
"word": "doli"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "fj",
"name": "Dermatology",
"orig": "fj:Dermatology",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
3,
7
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
3,
14
]
],
"english": "An armpit boil causes great pain.",
"text": "Na beka e dau vakavuna na mosi levu.",
"translation": "An armpit boil causes great pain.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"boil in the armpit"
],
"id": "en-beka-fj-noun-aT77jmA0",
"links": [
[
"dermatology",
"dermatology"
],
[
"boil",
"boil"
],
[
"armpit",
"armpit"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(by extension, dermatology) boil in the armpit"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "kirikiribeka"
}
],
"tags": [
"broadly"
],
"topics": [
"dermatology",
"medicine",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"word": "beka"
}
{
"categories": [
"Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa",
"Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)",
"Fijian entries with incorrect language header",
"Fijian lemmas",
"Fijian nouns",
"Fijian terms derived from Proto-Oceanic",
"Fijian terms inherited from Proto-Oceanic",
"Pages with 15 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"fj:Bats",
"fj:Medical signs and symptoms"
],
"derived": [
{
"english": "Pacific flying fox (Pteropus tonganus)",
"translation": "Pacific flying fox (Pteropus tonganus)",
"word": "beka dina"
},
{
"english": "Samoa flying fox (Pteropus samoensis)",
"translation": "Samoa flying fox (Pteropus samoensis)",
"word": "beka lulu"
},
{
"english": "night owl, person active only at night; night bat",
"tags": [
"literally",
"slang"
],
"translation": "night owl, person active only at night; night bat",
"word": "beka ni bogi"
},
{
"english": "armpit boil; bat-like lump",
"tags": [
"literally"
],
"translation": "armpit boil; bat-like lump",
"word": "kirikiribeka"
},
{
"english": "to bring/find one's own food, to not rely on others; to go like a bat",
"tags": [
"literally"
],
"translation": "to bring/find one's own food, to not rely on others; to go like a bat",
"word": "lako vakabeka"
},
{
"english": "something extremely sweet-tasting; bat thrush",
"tags": [
"literally"
],
"translation": "something extremely sweet-tasting; bat thrush",
"word": "macake na beka"
},
{
"english": "to stand around doing nothing (while others work); bat-beating",
"tags": [
"literally"
],
"translation": "to stand around doing nothing (while others work); bat-beating",
"word": "samusamu beka"
},
{
"english": "neatly arranged; arranged like bat teeth",
"tags": [
"literally"
],
"translation": "neatly arranged; arranged like bat teeth",
"word": "tuvani vaka bati ni beka"
},
{
"english": "to bring/find one's own food, to not rely on others; to fly like a bat",
"tags": [
"literally"
],
"translation": "to bring/find one's own food, to not rely on others; to fly like a bat",
"word": "vuka vakabeka"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fj",
"2": "poz-oce-pro",
"3": "*bʷeka"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Oceanic *bʷeka",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Central Pacific *bekwa, from Proto-Oceanic *bʷeka. The sense of “boil in the armpit” refers to the person affected holding up their arm like a bat’s wing.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fj",
"2": "noun"
},
"expansion": "beka",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Fijian",
"lang_code": "fj",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Fijian terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
10,
14
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
5,
15
]
],
"english": "Many fruit bats eat fruits such as bananas.",
"text": "E levu na beka era kana vuata me vaka na jaina.",
"translation": "Many fruit bats eat fruits such as bananas.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"bat, especially flying fox (any bat of the family Pteropodidae)"
],
"links": [
[
"bat",
"bat"
],
[
"flying fox",
"flying fox"
],
[
"Pteropodidae",
"Pteropodidae#Translingual"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "bekwa"
},
{
"word": "doli"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Fijian terms with usage examples",
"fj:Dermatology"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
3,
7
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
3,
14
]
],
"english": "An armpit boil causes great pain.",
"text": "Na beka e dau vakavuna na mosi levu.",
"translation": "An armpit boil causes great pain.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"boil in the armpit"
],
"links": [
[
"dermatology",
"dermatology"
],
[
"boil",
"boil"
],
[
"armpit",
"armpit"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(by extension, dermatology) boil in the armpit"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "kirikiribeka"
}
],
"tags": [
"broadly"
],
"topics": [
"dermatology",
"medicine",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"word": "beka"
}
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