See ای in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"Persian entries with etymon",
"Persian entries with incorrect language header",
"Persian lemmas",
"Persian nouns",
"Persian terms borrowed from English",
"Persian terms derived from English",
"fa:Latin letter names"
],
"derived": [
{
"roman": "di-en-ey",
"word": "دیانای"
}
],
"etymology_number": "5",
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fa",
"2": ":bor",
"3": "en:ay",
"text": "+",
"tree": "1"
},
"expansion": "[Appendix:Glossary#loanword|Borrowed]] from\", \"terms\" : [ { \"children\" : [ ], \"lang_name\" : \"English\", \"term\" : \"ay\", \"status\" : \"missing\", \"lang\" : \"en\" } ], \"keyword\" : \"bor\" } ], \"lang_name\" : \"Persian\", \"term\" : \"ای\", \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang\" : \"fa\" }\" data-lang=\"fa\" data-title=\"ای\">\nBorrowed from English ay.",
"name": "ety"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from English ay.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "ey",
"tags": [
"romanization"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"tr": "ey"
},
"expansion": "ای • (ey)",
"name": "fa-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Persian",
"lang_code": "fa",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"Transliteration of the name of the Latin-script letter a in English and other European languages."
],
"links": [
[
"a",
"a#English"
]
]
}
],
"word": "ای"
}
Download raw JSONL data for ای meaning in Persian (8.8kB)
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: dialectal, Kabuli, Mashhad, Shiraz, Kazerun, Dashtestan, Bushehr",
"path": [
"ای"
],
"section": "Persian",
"subsection": "determiner",
"title": "ای",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: dialectal, Kabuli, Mashhad, Shiraz, Kazerun, Dashtestan, Bushehr",
"path": [
"ای"
],
"section": "Persian",
"subsection": "determiner",
"title": "ای",
"trace": ""
}
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