See nam in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "Sino-Vietnamese word from 男.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "vi",
"2": "prefix",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "nam",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "nam",
"name": "vi-prefix"
}
],
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"lang_code": "vi",
"pos": "prefix",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Vietnamese terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
0,
3
]
],
"english": "a young man",
"text": "nam thanh niên",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"male; -o"
],
"links": [
[
"male",
"male"
],
[
"-o",
"-o"
]
],
"tags": [
"morpheme"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[naːm˧˧]",
"tags": [
"Hà-Nội"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[naːm˧˧]",
"tags": [
"Huế"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[naːm˧˧]",
"note": "Saigon"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q9199 (vie)-Jessica Nguyen (Pamputt)-nam.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/fc/LL-Q9199_%28vie%29-Jessica_Nguyen_%28Pamputt%29-nam.wav/LL-Q9199_%28vie%29-Jessica_Nguyen_%28Pamputt%29-nam.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/fc/LL-Q9199_%28vie%29-Jessica_Nguyen_%28Pamputt%29-nam.wav/LL-Q9199_%28vie%29-Jessica_Nguyen_%28Pamputt%29-nam.wav.ogg"
}
],
"word": "nam"
}
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