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  2. Shiksa - Wikipedia

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    The etymology of the word shiksa is partly derived from the Hebrew term שקץ shekets, meaning "abomination", "impure," or "object of loathing", depending on the translator. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, it came into English usage in the late 19th century from the Yiddish shikse, which is an adaptation of the Hebrew word ...

  3. Google Translate - Wikipedia

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    Google Translate is a multilingual neural machine translation service developed by Google to translate text, documents and websites from one language into another. It offers a website interface, a mobile app for Android and iOS, as well as an API that helps developers build browser extensions and software applications. [3]

  4. Google Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Google Dictionary is an online dictionary service of Google that can be accessed with the "define" operator and other similar phrases [note 1] in Google Search. [2] It is also available in Google Translate and as a Google Chrome extension. The dictionary content is licensed from Oxford University Press's Oxford Languages. [3]

  5. Chinese respelling of the English alphabet - Wikipedia

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    In China, letters of the English alphabet are pronounced somewhat differently because they have been adapted to the phonetics (i.e. the syllable structure) of the Chinese language. The knowledge of this spelling may be useful when spelling Western names, especially over the phone, as one may not be understood if the letters are pronounced as ...

  6. Shikha (hairstyle) - Wikipedia

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    Traditionally, Hindu men shave off all their hair as a child in a samskāra or ritual known as the chudakarana. [14] A lock of hair is left at the crown (). [15]Unlike most other eastern cultures where a coming-of-age ceremony removed childhood locks of hair similar to the shikha, in India, this prepubescent hairstyle is left to grow throughout the man's life, though usually only the most ...

  7. Sasha (name) - Wikipedia

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    Sasha is a name which originated among Slavic peoples from Eastern and Southern Europe [citation needed] as the shortened version of Alexander and Alexandra.It is also used as a surname, although very rarely.

  8. International Phonetic Alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Phonemic notation commonly uses IPA symbols that are rather close to the default pronunciation of a phoneme, but for legibility often uses simple and 'familiar' letters rather than precise notation, for example /r/ and /o/ for the English [ɹʷ] and [əʊ̯] sounds, or /c, ɟ/ for [t͜ʃ, d͜ʒ] as mentioned above.

  9. Shikha - Wikipedia

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    Shikha may refer to: Shikha (hairstyle), a traditional Hindu hairstyle; Shikha, Nepal; Shikha (actress), South Indian film actress; Shikha Joshi, Indian actress; Shikha Kumar, Registered business based in Canberra, Australia. She is Owner and founder of Shikha Beauty Studio; Shikha Makan, Indian ad-film director, filmmaker and screenwriter.