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to pull / to play (a bowed instrument) / to drag / to draw / to chat / (coll.) to empty one's bowels
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to make a cut in (sth); to slit; to gash; to slash
Pandora
Manila, capital of Philippines
Godzilla
Cleopatra (c. 70–30 BC), queen of Egypt
Asia, Africa and Latin America
to drag along / to haul / (fig.) to procrastinate / shilly-shallying / sluggish / (computing) drag and drop / (loanword) tola, unit of weight, approx. 11.664 grams
(loanword) koala
carat (mass) (loanword)
Godzilla (Tw)
Canberra, capital of Australia
Aurora, Roman goddess of dawn
Kevlar
Pandora
leather shoe stuffed with Carex meyeriana 烏拉草|乌拉草, worn in northeastern China during winter
Bengal / Bangladesh
Sahara
Leonhard Euler (1707–1783), Swiss mathematician
Ebola (virus)
Salar ethnic group of Qinghai province
to droop; to hang down; to dangle
(onom.) / same as 噶喇
Mothra (Japanese モスラ Mosura), Japanese movie monster
(loanword) salad
Amhara (province, language and ethnic group of Ethiopia) / Amharic / Ethiopian
(loanword) mozzarella
Lala, Philippines
lesbian (Internet slang) / Labrador retriever
(loanword) gondola (Venetian canal boat)
(loanword) salad
Dangla or Tanggula mountain range on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau 青藏高原
Godzilla (Japanese ゴジラ Gojira) / see also 哥斯拉
Angola
Dracula, novel by Bram Stoker / Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia (1431-1476), nicknamed Vlad the Impaler or Dracula
(loanword) fellah
Ankara, capital of Turkey
to procrastinate
roller (loanword)
(coll.) to push lightly / to flick to one side / to get rid of
(coll.) to push food from one's bowl into one's mouth with chopsticks (usu. hurriedly)
(loanword) lira (currency of Turkey)
Ebola (virus)
Tambora, volcano on Indonesian island of Sumbawa 松巴哇, whose 1815 eruption is greatest in recorded history
Zola (name) / Émile Zola (1840-1902), French naturalist novelist
Sandra (name)
Nikola Tesla (1856–1943), Serbian inventor and engineer / Tesla, an American electric vehicle and clean energy company
tesla (unit)
Hera (wife of Zeus)
to wear (one's shoes) like babouche slippers / (onom.) shuffling sound
riviera (loanword) (Tw)
(loanword) chakra
Gela (city in Sicily)
New Latin
candela (unit of luminosity) / standard candle
Kampala, capital of Uganda
Allah (Arabic name of God)
Mira (red giant star, Omicron Ceti)
riviera (loanword)
Shangri-la, the beautiful, idyllic land of James Hilton's 1933 novel "Lost Horizon"; a paradise on earth / Shangri-La, a county-level city in Yunnan that takes its name from the fictional land of the 1933 novel
Marat (name) / Jean-Paul Marat (1743-1793), Swiss scientist and physician
to sweep / to brush away
Karbala (city in Iraq)
Gamera (Japanese ガメラ Gamera), Japanese movie monster
Nelson Mandela (1918-2013), South African ANC politician, president of South Africa 1994-1999
(loanword) cholera
Accra, capital of Ghana
Venezuela
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used in 拉拉蛄 / variant of
Puebla, a city southeast of Mexico City / term used to refer to plants whose specific epithet is pueblensis, such as Tillandsia pueblensis (an air plant) and Echeveria pueblensis (a succulent)
Guadalajara
Syrah (grape type)
pushing and pulling (idiom)
Anthony and Cleopatra, 1606 tragedy by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚
Tora Bora, cave complex in the White Mountains of eastern Afghanistan
guava (loanword from Taiwanese)
Zipporah, wife of Moses
Adderall (stimulant drug)
Asmara, capital of Eritrea
Kara, city in northern Togo 多哥 / Cara, Karla etc (name)
karaoke / (Tw) (of chicken etc) crispy, deep-fried
Barbara or Barbra (name)
Dombra or Tambura, Kazakh plucked lute
L'Aquila, Italy
para para, a Eurobeat dance originating in Japan, with synchronized upper body movements (loanword from Japanese)
(dialect) shrike / Taiwan pr. [hu3 bu5 la1]
Guatemala
(Protestantism) Delilah
Uppsala, Swedish university city just north of Stockholm
Honiara, capital of Solomon Islands
Kevlar
Bayankala mountain range in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, watershed of 黃河|黄河 Huang He river
(loanword) masala
Attila (406-453), Hun emperor, known as the scourge of God
(loanword) mozzarella
Allah (Arabic name of God)
(Wu dialect) I; me; my; we; us; our
Spanish Sahara (former Spanish colony in Africa)

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