bus in Tok Pisin

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      "args": {
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        "2": "en",
        "3": "bush"
      },
      "expansion": "English bush",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From English bush.",
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "Tok Pisin",
  "lang_code": "tpi",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "bus kanaka"
        }
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          "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.",
          "translation": "→New International Version translation",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "bush (remote rural areas)"
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  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/bus/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bus"
}

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{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "bus kanaka"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "tpi",
        "2": "en",
        "3": "bush"
      },
      "expansion": "English bush",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From English bush.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "tpi",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "bus",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Tok Pisin",
  "lang_code": "tpi",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "Pages with 33 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Tok Pisin entries with incorrect language header",
        "Tok Pisin lemmas",
        "Tok Pisin nouns",
        "Tok Pisin terms derived from English",
        "Tok Pisin terms inherited from English",
        "Tok Pisin terms with quotations"
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          "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.",
          "translation": "→New International Version translation",
          "type": "quotation"
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      ],
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        "bush (remote rural areas)"
      ],
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          "bush",
          "bush"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/bus/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bus"
}

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"bus" meaning in Tok Pisin

Noun