See xmara in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "East Slavic:"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "be",
"2": "хма́ра",
"3": "хмуры́на"
},
"expansion": "Belarusian: хма́ра (xmára), хмуры́на (xmurýna)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Belarusian: хма́ра (xmára), хмуры́на (xmurýna)"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ru",
"2": "хма́ра",
"3": "хму́ра"
},
"expansion": "Russian: хма́ра (xmára), хму́ра (xmúra)",
"name": "desc"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "dialectal"
},
"expansion": "(dialectal)",
"name": "q"
}
],
"text": "Russian: хма́ра (xmára), хму́ра (xmúra) (dialectal)"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "uk",
"2": "хма́ра",
"3": "хму́ра"
},
"expansion": "Ukrainian: хма́ра (xmára), хму́ра (xmúra)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Ukrainian: хма́ра (xmára), хму́ра (xmúra)"
},
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"depth": 1,
"templates": [],
"text": "South Slavic:"
},
{
"depth": 2,
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"args": {
"1": "sh",
"2": "-"
},
"expansion": "Serbo-Croatian:",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Serbo-Croatian:"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sh",
"2": "тмо̀ра",
"sclb": "1"
},
"expansion": "Cyrillic script: тмо̀ра",
"name": "desc"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "possibly"
},
"expansion": "(possibly)",
"name": "q"
}
],
"text": "Cyrillic script: тмо̀ра (possibly)"
},
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"depth": 2,
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"2": "tmòra",
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"name": "desc"
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"args": {
"1": "possibly"
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"expansion": "(possibly)",
"name": "q"
}
],
"text": "Latin script: tmòra (possibly)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [],
"text": "West Slavic:"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "cs",
"2": "chmara",
"3": "chmoura"
},
"expansion": "Czech: chmara, chmoura",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Czech: chmara, chmoura"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pl",
"2": "chmara",
"3": "chmura"
},
"expansion": "Polish: chmara, chmura",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Polish: chmara, chmura"
},
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"depth": 2,
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{
"args": {
"1": "zlw-osk",
"2": "chmára",
"3": "chmúra"
},
"expansion": "Old Slovak: chmára, chmúra",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Old Slovak: chmára, chmúra"
},
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"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "rsk",
"2": "хмара"
},
"expansion": "Pannonian Rusyn: хмара (xmara)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Pannonian Rusyn: хмара (xmara)"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sk",
"2": "chmúra"
},
"expansion": "Slovak: chmúra",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Slovak: chmúra"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [],
"text": "Sorbian:"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "hsb",
"2": "khmura"
},
"expansion": "Upper Sorbian: khmura",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Upper Sorbian: khmura"
},
{
"depth": 3,
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{
"args": {
"1": "dsb",
"2": "chmura"
},
"expansion": "Lower Sorbian: chmura",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Lower Sorbian: chmura"
}
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},
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"2": "ἀμαυρός",
"3": "",
"4": "dark, dull"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek ἀμαυρός (amaurós, “dark, dull”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
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"2": "*tьma",
"3": "",
"4": "darkness"
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{
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"1": "en",
"2": "cloud"
},
"expansion": "English cloud",
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},
{
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"1": "ang",
"2": "clūd",
"3": "",
"4": "boulder, rocky mass"
},
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},
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"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*kh₂em-",
"4": "*kh₂mer-",
"t": "to curve, to distort"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *kh₂mer- (“to curve, to distort”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
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"1": "grc",
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"3": "",
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},
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}
],
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"forms": [
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"form": "xmàra",
"tags": [
"canonical",
"feminine"
]
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{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "inflection",
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"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "sla-decl-noun",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "xmara",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "xmàrě",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dual",
"nominative"
]
},
{
"form": "xmàry",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "xmàry",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "xmàru",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dual",
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "xmàrъ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "xmàrě",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "xmàrama",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dative",
"dual"
]
},
{
"form": "xmàramъ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "xmàrǫ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "xmàrě",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dual"
]
},
{
"form": "xmàry",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "xmàrojǫ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "xmàrǭ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "xmàrama",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dual",
"instrumental"
]
},
{
"form": "xmàramī",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "xmàrě",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"locative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "xmàru",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dual",
"locative"
]
},
{
"form": "xmàrasъ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"locative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "xmàraxъ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"locative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "xmàro",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "xmàrě",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dual",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "xmàry",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "*xmura",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"ap": "a"
},
"name": "sla-decl-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Proto-Slavic",
"lang_code": "sla-pro",
"original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xmara",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"english": "dusky, dim",
"word": "xmurъ"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"english": "lump, clod",
"tags": [
"possibly"
],
"word": "komъ"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"sense": "*xmariti, *xmuriti (“to dim”)",
"word": "xmarьnъ"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"english": "murky, cloudy, gloomy",
"sense": "*xmariti, *xmuriti (“to dim”)",
"word": "хmurьnъ"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"dusky, dark billow"
],
"id": "en-xmara-sla-pro-noun-smPALIPg",
"links": [
[
"dusky",
"dusky"
],
[
"dark",
"dark"
],
[
"billow",
"billow"
]
],
"tags": [
"reconstruction"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "3 84 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "3 84 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "5 75 20",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Proto-Slavic entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "5 84 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Proto-Slavic nominals with accent paradigm a",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"dark cloud"
],
"id": "en-xmara-sla-pro-noun-OttxBXPT",
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[
"dark",
"dark"
],
[
"cloud",
"cloud"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "*tǫča"
}
],
"tags": [
"reconstruction"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"incoherent mass → swarm (of insects), covey (of birds), crowd (of people)"
],
"id": "en-xmara-sla-pro-noun-VY-ZcB7g",
"links": [
[
"incoherent",
"incoherent"
],
[
"mass",
"mass"
],
[
"swarm",
"swarm"
],
[
"covey",
"covey"
],
[
"crowd",
"crowd"
]
],
"tags": [
"reconstruction"
]
}
],
"word": "xmara"
}
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"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Proto-Slavic entries with incorrect language header",
"Proto-Slavic feminine nouns",
"Proto-Slavic hard a-stem nouns",
"Proto-Slavic lemmas",
"Proto-Slavic nominals with accent paradigm a",
"Proto-Slavic nouns",
"Proto-Slavic terms with unknown etymologies",
"sla-pro:Clouds"
],
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [],
"text": "East Slavic:"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "be",
"2": "хма́ра",
"3": "хмуры́на"
},
"expansion": "Belarusian: хма́ра (xmára), хмуры́на (xmurýna)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Belarusian: хма́ра (xmára), хмуры́на (xmurýna)"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ru",
"2": "хма́ра",
"3": "хму́ра"
},
"expansion": "Russian: хма́ра (xmára), хму́ра (xmúra)",
"name": "desc"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "dialectal"
},
"expansion": "(dialectal)",
"name": "q"
}
],
"text": "Russian: хма́ра (xmára), хму́ра (xmúra) (dialectal)"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "uk",
"2": "хма́ра",
"3": "хму́ра"
},
"expansion": "Ukrainian: хма́ра (xmára), хму́ра (xmúra)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Ukrainian: хма́ра (xmára), хму́ра (xmúra)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [],
"text": "South Slavic:"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sh",
"2": "-"
},
"expansion": "Serbo-Croatian:",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Serbo-Croatian:"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sh",
"2": "тмо̀ра",
"sclb": "1"
},
"expansion": "Cyrillic script: тмо̀ра",
"name": "desc"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "possibly"
},
"expansion": "(possibly)",
"name": "q"
}
],
"text": "Cyrillic script: тмо̀ра (possibly)"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sh",
"2": "tmòra",
"sclb": "1"
},
"expansion": "Latin script: tmòra",
"name": "desc"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "possibly"
},
"expansion": "(possibly)",
"name": "q"
}
],
"text": "Latin script: tmòra (possibly)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [],
"text": "West Slavic:"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "cs",
"2": "chmara",
"3": "chmoura"
},
"expansion": "Czech: chmara, chmoura",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Czech: chmara, chmoura"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pl",
"2": "chmara",
"3": "chmura"
},
"expansion": "Polish: chmara, chmura",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Polish: chmara, chmura"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "zlw-osk",
"2": "chmára",
"3": "chmúra"
},
"expansion": "Old Slovak: chmára, chmúra",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Old Slovak: chmára, chmúra"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "rsk",
"2": "хмара"
},
"expansion": "Pannonian Rusyn: хмара (xmara)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Pannonian Rusyn: хмара (xmara)"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sk",
"2": "chmúra"
},
"expansion": "Slovak: chmúra",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Slovak: chmúra"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [],
"text": "Sorbian:"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "hsb",
"2": "khmura"
},
"expansion": "Upper Sorbian: khmura",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Upper Sorbian: khmura"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "dsb",
"2": "chmura"
},
"expansion": "Lower Sorbian: chmura",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Lower Sorbian: chmura"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "sla-pro"
},
"expansion": "Uncertain",
"name": "unc"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "ἀμαυρός",
"3": "",
"4": "dark, dull"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek ἀμαυρός (amaurós, “dark, dull”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sla-pro",
"2": "*tьma",
"3": "",
"4": "darkness"
},
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},
{
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"1": "en",
"2": "cloud"
},
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},
{
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"2": "clūd",
"3": "",
"4": "boulder, rocky mass"
},
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},
{
"args": {
"1": "sla-pro",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*kh₂em-",
"4": "*kh₂mer-",
"t": "to curve, to distort"
},
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"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "κᾰμᾰ́ρᾱ",
"3": "",
"4": "vault, heap, mass"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek κᾰμᾰ́ρᾱ (kămắrā, “vault, heap, mass”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Uncertain:\n* Per Vasmer, Trubachev (ESSJa): From contamination of original *xmura and *para (“vapor”) or *mara (“dusk, illusion, mirage”). The former is sometimes compared with Ancient Greek ἀμαυρός (amaurós, “dark, dull”).\n* Per Gudkov (EIRJa): From dissimilation of an earlier *tьmora/*tьmara → *kmara → *xmara, cognate with Proto-Slavic *tьma (“darkness”).\n* If the original meaning of the word was more concerned with the shape rather than with the hue of the cloud (as in English cloud < Old English clūd (“boulder, rocky mass”)), then possibly from an ō-grade of Proto-Indo-European *kh₂mer- (“to curve, to distort”). Compare Ancient Greek κᾰμᾰ́ρᾱ (kămắrā, “vault, heap, mass”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "xmàra",
"tags": [
"canonical",
"feminine"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "sla-decl-noun",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "xmara",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "xmàrě",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dual",
"nominative"
]
},
{
"form": "xmàry",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "xmàry",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "xmàru",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dual",
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "xmàrъ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "xmàrě",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "xmàrama",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dative",
"dual"
]
},
{
"form": "xmàramъ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "xmàrǫ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "xmàrě",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dual"
]
},
{
"form": "xmàry",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "xmàrojǫ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "xmàrǭ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "xmàrama",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dual",
"instrumental"
]
},
{
"form": "xmàramī",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "xmàrě",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"locative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "xmàru",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dual",
"locative"
]
},
{
"form": "xmàrasъ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"locative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "xmàraxъ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"locative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "xmàro",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "xmàrě",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dual",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "xmàry",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "*xmura",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"ap": "a"
},
"name": "sla-decl-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Proto-Slavic",
"lang_code": "sla-pro",
"original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xmara",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"english": "dusky, dim",
"word": "xmurъ"
},
{
"sense": "*xmariti, *xmuriti (“to dim”)",
"word": "xmarьnъ"
},
{
"english": "murky, cloudy, gloomy",
"sense": "*xmariti, *xmuriti (“to dim”)",
"word": "хmurьnъ"
},
{
"english": "lump, clod",
"tags": [
"possibly"
],
"word": "komъ"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"dusky, dark billow"
],
"links": [
[
"dusky",
"dusky"
],
[
"dark",
"dark"
],
[
"billow",
"billow"
]
],
"tags": [
"reconstruction"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"dark cloud"
],
"links": [
[
"dark",
"dark"
],
[
"cloud",
"cloud"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "*tǫča"
}
],
"tags": [
"reconstruction"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"incoherent mass → swarm (of insects), covey (of birds), crowd (of people)"
],
"links": [
[
"incoherent",
"incoherent"
],
[
"mass",
"mass"
],
[
"swarm",
"swarm"
],
[
"covey",
"covey"
],
[
"crowd",
"crowd"
]
],
"tags": [
"reconstruction"
]
}
],
"word": "xmara"
}
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