word letter (character) 7 realizations
ACCEPTED Realization 1
Type Polysemy
Language Balinese
Lexeme sarsa
Meaning 1 word
Direction
Meaning 2 letter (character)
Reference SEALang Balinese
Comment Also 'scripture, law'
ACCEPTED Realization 2
Type Polysemy
Language Classical Arabic
Lexeme ḥarf (حَرْف)
Meaning 1 (obsolete) word
Direction
Meaning 2 letter (of the alphabet)
Reference BK: 1, 410-411
Comment From the root ḥ-r-f 'to turn to the opposite side; to trade, to do business; to trim, to snip', to slant, to incline; to bend down, up, or back, to turn down, up, or back..., cutting edge, sharp edge; border, brink, edge, rim'. The meaning “word” is a semantic loan from Medieval Latin terminus, spawned in the environment of philosophy text translation (Praetorius 1909)
ACCEPTED Realization 3
Type Polysemy
Language Farsi
Lexeme حرف ḥarf
Meaning 1 letter حرف قمري ḥarf-e qamri
moon letter
Direction
Meaning 2 word; speech, gossip, talk حرف حرف میاورد ḥarf ḥarf miyāvorad
one thing led to another (one word is followed by another)
Reference Rubinčik 1970: 497
Comment ПРС 283.
NEW Realization 4
Type Cognates
Language 1 Russian
Language 2 Serbian
Lexeme слово (slovo)
Meaning 1 word запомнить слово, написать слово
to remember a word, to write a word
Direction
Meaning 2 letter (character) велико слово, мало слово
big letter, small letter
Reference Vujanitsh et al. 2007: 1241
Comment Example for meaning 1 - BTS p.1210. Also 'word' in Polish, Czeck, Slovak, Bulgarian, Belorussian, Ukrainian.
NEW Realization 5
Type Cognates
Language 1 Russian
Language 2 Croatian
Lexeme 1 слово (slovo)
Lexeme 2 slovo
Meaning 1 word запомнить слово, написать слово
to remember a word, to write a word
Direction
Meaning 2 letter (character) veliko slovo, malo slovo
big letter, small letter
Reference BTS: 1210
Comment Example for meaning 2 - HJP
ACCEPTED Realization 6
Type Polysemy
Language Sanskrit
Lexeme akṣára
Meaning 1 word
Direction
Meaning 2 letter, syllabe
Reference MW: 3
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 7
Type Polysemy
Language Vietnamese
Lexeme chữ
Meaning 1 word
Direction
Meaning 2 letter, (written) character
Reference SEAlang Vietnamese
Comment