to check, test
—
to taste (tr.)
2 realizations
Related shifts
ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Classical Arabic | |
Lexeme | d̲āḳa | |
Meaning 1 | to taste | d̲uḳtu ṭ-ṭaʕām-a ‘I tasted the food’ |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | to try, to test | d̲uḳtu fulān-an 'I tried or tested such a one'; |
Reference | ||
Comment | BK I 789; Lane 988 |
ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Russian | |
Lexeme | пробовать (probovat') | |
Meaning 1 | to taste | пробовать суп 'to taste soup' |
Direction | — | |
Meaning 2 | to subject to a test | пробовать воду 'to check the water (its temperature)' |
Reference | <personally collected data> | |
Comment | Cp. also such derivatives as опробовать 'to subject to a test, to use for the first time' |