"koan" meaning in Anglais

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      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Lemmes en anglais",
      "parents": [],
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    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Mots en anglais issus d’un mot en chinois classique",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Mots en anglais issus d’un mot en japonais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Noms communs en anglais",
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    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Anglais",
      "orig": "anglais",
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_texts": [
    "Du japonais 公案, kōan, lui-même issu du chinois classique 公案 (littéralement « cas public »)."
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "koans",
      "ipas": [
        "\\ˈkəʊ.ɑːnz\\"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kōan"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Nom commun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Lexique en anglais du bouddhisme",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Wiktionnaire:Exemples manquants en anglais",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Koan."
      ],
      "id": "fr-koan-en-noun-BTeXRZGV",
      "topics": [
        "Buddhism"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Exemples en anglais",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Exemples en anglais à traduire",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
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              21,
              25
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow, 1973",
          "text": "Gibberish. Or else a koan that Achtfaden isn’t equipped to master, a transcendent puzzle that could lead him to some moment of light."
        },
        {
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              14,
              18
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age: A Romance (Fourth Estate, paperback edition, 303), 2001",
          "text": "As always the koan “Why, Why am I here, why here” begins in her head, but she beats it back like a housewife with a broom."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Aporie."
      ],
      "id": "fr-koan-en-noun-gcUGmPsw"
    }
  ],
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      "raw_tags": [
        "États-Unis"
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "\\ˈkəʊ.ɑːn\\",
      "raw_tags": [
        "(Royaume-Uni)"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "\\ˈkoʊ.ɑn\\",
      "raw_tags": [
        "(États-Unis)"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "koan"
}

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    "Mots en anglais issus d’un mot en chinois classique",
    "Mots en anglais issus d’un mot en japonais",
    "Noms communs en anglais",
    "anglais"
  ],
  "etymology_texts": [
    "Du japonais 公案, kōan, lui-même issu du chinois classique 公案 (littéralement « cas public »)."
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "koans",
      "ipas": [
        "\\ˈkəʊ.ɑːnz\\"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kōan"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Nom commun",
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        "Lexique en anglais du bouddhisme",
        "Wiktionnaire:Exemples manquants en anglais"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Koan."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "Buddhism"
      ]
    },
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        "Exemples en anglais",
        "Exemples en anglais à traduire"
      ],
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              21,
              25
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow, 1973",
          "text": "Gibberish. Or else a koan that Achtfaden isn’t equipped to master, a transcendent puzzle that could lead him to some moment of light."
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              14,
              18
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age: A Romance (Fourth Estate, paperback edition, 303), 2001",
          "text": "As always the koan “Why, Why am I here, why here” begins in her head, but she beats it back like a housewife with a broom."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Aporie."
      ]
    }
  ],
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "\\ˈkəʊ.ɑːn\\",
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        "(Royaume-Uni)"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "\\ˈkoʊ.ɑn\\",
      "raw_tags": [
        "(États-Unis)"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "koan"
}