to blow
→
to strike, hit
5 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Classical Arabic | |
| Lexeme | nafaḥa | |
| Meaning 1 | 'to blow' | nafaḥat-i r-rīḥ-u the wind blew |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | 'to strike, smite' | nafaḥahu bi-s-sayf-i he struck him with the sword |
| Reference | Lane: 2820 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Classical Arabic | |
| Lexeme | لَفَحَة lafaḥat- | |
| Meaning 1 | hit | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | gust | |
| Reference | Baranov | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | English | |
| Lexeme 1 | to blow | |
| Lexeme 2 | blow | |
| Meaning 1 | to blow | A cold breeze was blowing hard |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | hard stroke with fist, hammer etc. | to reel under crushing blows |
| Reference | ODE | |
| Comment | Historically homonyms. blow 'act of striking or hitting' from Middle English blowe, blaw, northern variant of blēwe, from Proto-Germanic *blewwaną 'to beat' (Old Norse blegði 'wedge', German einbläuen, Middle Dutch blouwen). blow 'to produce an air current' from Middle English blowen, from Old English blāwan 'to blow, breathe, inflate, sound'), from Proto-West Germanic *blāan, from Proto-Germanic *blēaną 'to blow' (German blähen), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- 'to swell, blow up' | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Russian | |
| Lexeme 1 | дуть (dut') | |
| Lexeme 2 | вздуть (vzdut') | |
| Meaning 1 | to blow | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to beat, beat up | |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | ||
| NEW Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Zulu | |
| Lexeme | betha | |
| Meaning 1 | to blow | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to strike, hit | |
| Reference | Луцков А.Д. Зулу-Русский словарь 2014: 17 | |
| Comment | ||