See niam in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "poj niam"
}
],
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{
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"1": "mww",
"2": "hmn-pro",
"3": "*minᴰ",
"t": "female"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Hmong *minᴰ (“female”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
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"2": "-"
},
"expansion": "Chinese",
"name": "ncog"
},
{
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"1": "女",
"2": "woman"
},
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}
],
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"2": "noun"
},
"expansion": "niam",
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{
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"mother, woman"
],
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],
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},
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}
],
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"an older female relative"
],
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"links": [
[
"older",
"older"
],
[
"female",
"female"
],
[
"relative",
"relative"
]
]
},
{
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{
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"langcode": "mww",
"name": "Christianity",
"orig": "mww:Christianity",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "35 2 3 48 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "White Hmong entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "6 37 14 43",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "mww",
"name": "Female family members",
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"parents": [],
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}
],
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"nun"
],
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[
"Christianity",
"Christianity"
],
[
"nun",
"nun"
]
],
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"(Christianity) nun"
],
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"Christianity"
]
},
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{
"kind": "other",
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"name": "Religion",
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"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "6 37 14 43",
"kind": "other",
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},
{
"_dis": "5 46 3 45",
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"parents": [],
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}
],
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"a female member of religious community"
],
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[
"religion",
"religion"
],
[
"female",
"female"
],
[
"member",
"member"
],
[
"religious",
"religious"
],
[
"community",
"community"
]
],
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"(religion) a female member of religious community"
],
"topics": [
"lifestyle",
"religion"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/niə̯˩̰/"
}
],
"word": "niam"
}
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"White Hmong entries with incorrect language header",
"White Hmong lemmas",
"White Hmong nouns",
"White Hmong terms derived from Proto-Hmong",
"White Hmong terms inherited from Proto-Hmong",
"White Hmong terms with IPA pronunciation",
"mww:Female family members",
"mww:Female people"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "poj niam"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "mww",
"2": "hmn-pro",
"3": "*minᴰ",
"t": "female"
},
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"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "zh",
"2": "-"
},
"expansion": "Chinese",
"name": "ncog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "女",
"2": "woman"
},
"expansion": "女 (nǚ, “woman”)",
"name": "zh-l"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Hmong *minᴰ (“female”). Despite phonetic similarity of the descendant forms of both Proto-Hmongic and Proto-Sinitic, likely not related to Chinese 女 (nǚ, “woman”).",
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"args": {
"1": "mww",
"2": "noun"
},
"expansion": "niam",
"name": "head"
}
],
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"lang_code": "mww",
"pos": "noun",
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{
"glosses": [
"mother, woman"
],
"links": [
[
"mother",
"mother"
],
[
"woman",
"woman"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"an older female relative"
],
"links": [
[
"older",
"older"
],
[
"female",
"female"
],
[
"relative",
"relative"
]
]
},
{
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"mww:Christianity"
],
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"nun"
],
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[
"Christianity",
"Christianity"
],
[
"nun",
"nun"
]
],
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"(Christianity) nun"
],
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"Christianity"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"mww:Religion"
],
"glosses": [
"a female member of religious community"
],
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[
"religion",
"religion"
],
[
"female",
"female"
],
[
"member",
"member"
],
[
"religious",
"religious"
],
[
"community",
"community"
]
],
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"(religion) a female member of religious community"
],
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"lifestyle",
"religion"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/niə̯˩̰/"
}
],
"word": "niam"
}
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable White Hmong dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-07 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (92124b4 and f1c2b61). 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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