white
→
white (politics)
10 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 | |
| 5612 | red | → | socialist or communist | Open |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Bashkir | |
| Lexeme | аҡ | |
| Meaning 1 | white | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | white (politics) | |
| Reference | Bashkir Uraksin 1996: 18 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Chukchee | |
| Lexeme | илгыльын | |
| Meaning 1 | white | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | member of the White Army | |
| Reference | Moll, Inènlikèj 1957: 40 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | English | |
| Lexeme | white | |
| Meaning 1 | white | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | pertaining to constitutional or anti-revolutionary political parties or movements | Aimée de Coigny had always adopted with enthusiasm the political views
of her ruling lover and she had thus already held nearly every shade of
opinion from red republicanism to white reaction. (1932, Duff Cooper, Talleyrand) |
| Reference | English Wiktionary | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Finnish | |
| Lexeme | valkoinen | |
| Meaning 1 | white | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | forces under Pehr Evind Svinhufvud's first senate who opposed the "Reds", or the Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic, during the Finnish civil war (1918) | Valkoiset saivat merkittävää tukea saksalaisilta joukoilta, joiden käyttöä muun muassa Mannerheim ja Maalaisliiton Santeri Alkio vastustivat. The Whites received significant support from German troops, the use of which, among others, was opposed by Mannerheim and Maalaisliito's Santeri Alkio. |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | French | |
| Lexeme | blanc | |
| Meaning 1 | white | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | formerly, Chouans, party opposite to the Republicans, known as the Blues; In the XIX century, supporter of the monarchy | |
| Reference | CNRTL | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Kazakh | |
| Lexeme | ақ | |
| Meaning 1 | white | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | a White; a member of the White Guard; an anticommunist in the Russian Civil War (1917–1923) | |
| Reference | Syzdykova, Xusain (eds.) 2008: 44 | |
| Comment | ||
| NEW Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Romanian | |
| Lexeme | alb | |
| Meaning 1 | white | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | supporter of the tsarist regime | |
| Reference | MDA2 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 8 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Russian | |
| Lexeme | белый | |
| Meaning 1 | white | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | (history, politics) a anticommunist who fought against the Reds during the Russian Civil War; the term is mostly associated with monarchist forces; a member of the White Guard | |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 9 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Serbian | |
| Lexeme | бео (beo) | |
| Meaning 1 | white | бела марама, бели цвет white scarf, white flower |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | anticommunist | Ruski su nam predavali beli oficiri, emigranti iz dvadesetih godina. Russian was taught to us by white officers, emigrants from the twenties. |
| Reference | Vujanitsh et al. 2007: 77 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 10 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Tofa | |
| Lexeme | ақ | |
| Meaning 1 | white | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | a White; a member of the White Guard; an anticommunist in the Russian Civil War (1917–1923) | |
| Reference | Rassadin 2016: 25 | |
| Comment | ||
The association of white with monarchism originally came from the white flag of the Bourbon dynasty of France. White became the banner of the royalist rebellions against the French Revolution (Revolt in the Vendée).During the Civil War which followed the Russian Revolution of 1917, the White Army, a coalition of monarchists, nationalists and liberals, fought unsuccessfully against the Red Army of the Bolsheviks. A similar battle between reds and whites took place during the Civil War in Finland in the same period.