beetle
—
freak, oddity
3 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| NEW Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Croatian | |
| Lexeme | buba | |
| Meaning 1 | beetle | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | crazy thought, whim | (imati) bubu (bube) u glavi, staviti bubu (buhu) u uho (komu) to have crazy thought in the head, to give someone an obsession |
| Reference | HJP | |
| Comment | ||
| NEW Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Hungarian | |
| Lexeme | bogár | |
| Meaning 1 | beetle | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | whim | |
| Reference | Гальди 1974: 97 | |
| Comment | ||
| NEW Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Serbian | |
| Lexeme 1 | буба (buba) | |
| Lexeme 2 | буба (buba), бубица (bubica) | |
| Meaning 1 | beetle | U jednom trenutku, tokom ćaskanja uletela mi je buba u usta. At one point, during the chat, a bug flew into my mouth. |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | crazy thought, whim | Znate, on je imao bubu u glavi, sve je snijevao o velikoj Hrvatskoj, o Slovenstvu ... You know, he had a crazy thought in his head, he has been dreaming about a great Croatia, about Slavdom... |
| Reference | Vujanitsh et al. 2007: 117 CLARIN.SI | |
| Comment | ||
Ср. русское "у всех свои тараканы в голове".