forehead
→
happiness, luck
1 realization
Related shifts
ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Amharic | |
Lexeme | gənbar, gəmbar | |
Meaning 1 | forehead, brow | gənbar ḳʷaṭṭärä 'to frown' (to knot one's brow) |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | fortune, luck | gənbar yälelläw 'unlucky, unfortunate' (lit. who has no forehead); gəmbaru bərtu näw 'he is very lucky' (lit. his forehead is strong) |
Reference | ||
Comment | (K 2003) |