to contain
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to remember
1 realization
Related shifts
ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Classical Arabic | |
Lexeme | وَعَى waʕā | |
Meaning 1 | to contain (of a vessel) | وِعَآءُ القَلْبِ the pericardium |
Direction | — | |
Meaning 2 | to remember, to memorize, to carry in one's memory | wa-ḳad waʕaytu ʕanhu mā ḳāla And I remembered what he had said. |
Reference | Lane: 962, 3056 | |
Comment | Cf. وِعَاءٌ ‘bag, or wallet, or receptacle, for travelling-provisions, and for goods or utensils, etc.; vessel'; وَعْىٌ 'carrying in memory, consciousness'. |