door
→
chapter (of a book)
6 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Classical Arabic | |
| Lexeme | bāb- | |
| Meaning 1 | 'a door, a gate; a place of entrance' | bāb-u d-dār-i 'the door of the house |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | 'a chapter, a | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | Lane 272 | |
| NEW Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Farsi | |
| Lexeme | bâb (باب) | |
| Meaning 1 | door, gate | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | chapter (of a book) | |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Geez | |
| Lexeme | ʔanḳaṣ | |
| Meaning 1 | gates | ʔanḳaṣa hagar Gen. 34:24: 'the town gates' |
| Meaning 2 | chapter | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | LLA 649; Quite plausibly an Arabic calque (see the first example) | |
| NEW Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Indonesian | |
| Lexeme | bab | |
| Meaning 1 | door | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | chapter (of a book) | |
| Reference | SEALang Indonesia | |
| Comment | ||
| NEW Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Malay | |
| Lexeme | bab | |
| Meaning 1 | door, gate | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | chapter (of a book) | |
| Reference | SEALang Malay Rott et al. 1977.: 25 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Swahili | |
| Lexeme | mlango | |
| Meaning 1 | door | |
| Meaning 2 | chapter, section | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | Polikanov | |