See تنگ in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"girth"
],
[
"strap",
"strap"
],
[
"band",
"band"
],
[
"brace",
"brace"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"a wooden instrument with iron teeth used in separating rice from the chaff"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"a machine for making powder"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"an oil-press"
],
"links": [
[
"oil-press",
"oil-press"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[taŋɡ]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Persian"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[t̪ʰäŋɡ]",
"tags": [
"Dari",
"formal"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[t̪ʰäŋɡ]",
"tags": [
"Dari",
"formal"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[t̪ʰäŋɡ]",
"tags": [
"Kabuli"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[t̪ʰäŋɡ̥]",
"note": "Hazaragi"
},
{
"ipa": "[t̪ʰæŋɡʲ̥]",
"tags": [
"Iran",
"formal"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[t̪ʰäŋɡ]",
"tags": [
"Tajik",
"formal"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"english": "deng, dang",
"word": "دنگ"
}
],
"word": "تنگ"
}
Download raw JSONL data for تنگ meaning in Persian (7.2kB)
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1698",
"msg": "unrecognized head form: tang",
"path": [
"تنگ"
],
"section": "Persian",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "تنگ",
"trace": ""
}
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