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{
"word": "bem"
},
{
"word": "bastante"
},
{
"word": "mó"
}
],
"tags": [
"Brazil",
"informal"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/majˈɔʁ/",
"tags": [
"Brazil"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[maɪ̯ˈɔh]",
"tags": [
"Brazil"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/majˈɔʁ/",
"tags": [
"Brazil"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[maɪ̯ˈɔh]",
"tags": [
"Brazil"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/majˈɔɾ/",
"tags": [
"São-Paulo"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[maɪ̯ˈɔɾ]",
"tags": [
"São-Paulo"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/majˈɔʁ/",
"tags": [
"Rio-de-Janeiro"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[maɪ̯ˈɔχ]",
"tags": [
"Rio-de-Janeiro"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/majˈɔɻ/",
"tags": [
"Southern-Brazil"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[maɪ̯ˈɔɻ]",
"tags": [
"Southern-Brazil"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/majˈɔɾ/",
"tags": [
"Portugal"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/majˈɔɾ/",
"tags": [
"Portugal"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/majˈɔ.ɾi/",
"tags": [
"Portugal",
"Southern"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "(Portugal, São Paulo) -ɔɾ"
},
{
"rhymes": "(Brazil) -ɔʁ"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "mayor"
}
],
"word": "maior"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Portuguese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-22 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (fc4f0c7 and c937495). 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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