to check, test
—
to taste (tr.)
2 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Classical Arabic | |
| Lexeme | d̲āḳa | |
| Meaning 1 | to taste | d̲uḳtu ṭ-ṭaʕām-a ‘I tasted the food’ |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to try, to test | d̲uḳtu fulān-an 'I tried or tested such a one'; |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | BK I 789; Lane 988 | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Russian | |
| Lexeme | пробовать (probovat') | |
| Meaning 1 | to taste | пробовать суп 'to taste soup' |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | to subject to a test | пробовать воду 'to check the water (its temperature)' |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | Cp. also such derivatives as опробовать 'to subject to a test, to use for the first time' | |