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],
"tags": [
"declension-4",
"feminine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[tʃūska]"
},
{
"audio": "Lv-čūska.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/77/Lv-%C4%8D%C5%ABska.ogg/Lv-%C4%8D%C5%ABska.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Lv-%C4%8D%C5%ABska.ogg"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"sense": "dialectal terms",
"word": "ķūska"
},
{
"word": "cūška"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"lv:Čūskas"
],
"word": "čūska"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Latvian dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c and c9440ce). 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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