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"3": "beliung"
},
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],
"etymology_text": "From Malay beliung.",
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"lang_code": "tpi",
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"adze"
],
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"axe"
],
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"axe",
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]
]
},
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"glosses": [
"hatchet"
],
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]
]
}
],
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}
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"etymology_number": 2,
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},
"expansion": "English belong",
"name": "bor"
}
],
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"2": "preposition"
},
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}
],
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"lang_code": "tpi",
"pos": "prep",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"english": "my sister",
"text": "sista bilong mi"
},
{
"english": "they gather the red flowers of this [shrub]",
"ref": "James Leach and Porer Nombo, Reite Plants, p. 10",
"text": "ol bai kisim retpela plaua bilong en"
},
{
"english": "→New International Version translation",
"ref": "1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 1:25:",
"text": "God i kamapim ol kain kain animal bilong ples na ol bikpela na liklik animal bilong bus. God i lukim olgeta dispela samting i gutpela, na em i amamas.",
"type": "quote"
}
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"of, belonging to"
],
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"belong",
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]
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},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"english": "a drunk",
"text": "man bilong dringim bia"
},
{
"english": "an aggressive man",
"text": "man bilong paitim"
},
{
"english": "→New International Version translation",
"ref": "1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 1:7:",
"text": "Orait dispela banis i kamap. God i mekim dispela banis i kamap bilong banisim wara antap na wara daunbilo.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"having a tendency to, known for"
],
"id": "en-bilong-tpi-prep-7fxb8-Kb",
"links": [
[
"tendency",
"tendency"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"english": "→New International Version translation",
"ref": "1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 1:15:",
"text": "Ol dispela lait i mas kamap long skai bilong givim lait long graun.”",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"english": "Bark for banishing spirits",
"ref": "James Leach and Porer Nombo, Reite Plants, p. 38",
"text": "Skin diwai bilong rausim tewel"
}
],
"glosses": [
"for the purpose of"
],
"id": "en-bilong-tpi-prep-DzvwS7BG",
"links": [
[
"purpose",
"purpose"
]
]
}
],
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "blong"
}
],
"word": "bilong"
}
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"Pages with entries",
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"Tok Pisin lemmas",
"Tok Pisin nouns",
"Tok Pisin prepositions",
"Tok Pisin terms borrowed from English",
"Tok Pisin terms borrowed from Malay",
"Tok Pisin terms derived from English",
"Tok Pisin terms derived from Malay"
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"pos": "noun",
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"adze"
],
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[
"adze",
"adze"
]
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"axe"
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"hatchet"
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"Pages with entries",
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],
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"3": "belong"
},
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"name": "bor"
}
],
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"1": "tpi",
"2": "preposition"
},
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"name": "head"
}
],
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"lang_code": "tpi",
"pos": "prep",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
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],
"examples": [
{
"english": "my sister",
"text": "sista bilong mi"
},
{
"english": "they gather the red flowers of this [shrub]",
"ref": "James Leach and Porer Nombo, Reite Plants, p. 10",
"text": "ol bai kisim retpela plaua bilong en"
},
{
"english": "→New International Version translation",
"ref": "1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 1:25:",
"text": "God i kamapim ol kain kain animal bilong ples na ol bikpela na liklik animal bilong bus. God i lukim olgeta dispela samting i gutpela, na em i amamas.",
"type": "quote"
}
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"of, belonging to"
],
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[
"belong",
"belong"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Tok Pisin terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "a drunk",
"text": "man bilong dringim bia"
},
{
"english": "an aggressive man",
"text": "man bilong paitim"
},
{
"english": "→New International Version translation",
"ref": "1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 1:7:",
"text": "Orait dispela banis i kamap. God i mekim dispela banis i kamap bilong banisim wara antap na wara daunbilo.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"having a tendency to, known for"
],
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[
"tendency",
"tendency"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Tok Pisin terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "→New International Version translation",
"ref": "1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 1:15:",
"text": "Ol dispela lait i mas kamap long skai bilong givim lait long graun.”",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"english": "Bark for banishing spirits",
"ref": "James Leach and Porer Nombo, Reite Plants, p. 38",
"text": "Skin diwai bilong rausim tewel"
}
],
"glosses": [
"for the purpose of"
],
"links": [
[
"purpose",
"purpose"
]
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "blong"
}
],
"word": "bilong"
}
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