word
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letter (character)
7 realizations
Related shifts
ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Farsi | |
Lexeme | حرف ḥarf | |
Meaning 1 | letter | حرف قمري ḥarf-e qamri moon letter |
Direction | — | |
Meaning 2 | word; speech, gossip, talk | حرف حرف میاورد ḥarf ḥarf miyāvorad one thing led to another (one word is followed by another) |
Reference | Rubinčik 1970: 497 | |
Comment | ПРС 283. |
ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Balinese | |
Lexeme | sarsa | |
Meaning 1 | word | |
Direction | — | |
Meaning 2 | letter (character) | |
Reference | SEALang Balinese | |
Comment | Also 'scripture, law' |
ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Vietnamese | |
Lexeme | chữ | |
Meaning 1 | word | |
Direction | — | |
Meaning 2 | letter, (written) character | |
Reference | SEAlang Vietnamese | |
Comment |
ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Classical Arabic | |
Lexeme | ḥarf (حَرْف) | |
Meaning 1 | (obsolete) word | |
Direction | ← | |
Meaning 2 | letter (of the alphabet) | |
Reference | BK: 1, 410-411 | |
Comment | From the root ḥ-r-f 'to turn to the opposite side; to trade, to do business; to trim, to snip', to slant, to incline; to bend down, up, or back, to turn down, up, or back..., cutting edge, sharp edge; border, brink, edge, rim'. The meaning “word” is a semantic loan from Medieval Latin terminus, spawned in the environment of philosophy text translation (Praetorius 1909) |
ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Sanskrit | |
Lexeme | akṣára | |
Meaning 1 | word | |
Direction | ← | |
Meaning 2 | letter, syllabe | |
Reference | MW: 3 | |
Comment |
NEW Realization 6 | ||
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Type | Cognates | |
Language 1 | Russian | |
Language 2 | Serbian | |
Lexeme | слово (slovo) | |
Meaning 1 | word | запомнить слово, написать слово to remember a word, to write a word |
Direction | — | |
Meaning 2 | letter (character) | велико слово, мало слово big letter, small letter |
Reference | Vujanitsh et al. 2007: 1241 | |
Comment | Example for meaning 1 - BTS p.1210. Also 'word' in Polish, Czeck, Slovak, Bulgarian, Belorussian, Ukrainian. |
NEW Realization 7 | ||
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Type | Cognates | |
Language 1 | Russian | |
Language 2 | Croatian | |
Lexeme 1 | слово (slovo) | |
Lexeme 2 | slovo | |
Meaning 1 | word | запомнить слово, написать слово to remember a word, to write a word |
Direction | — | |
Meaning 2 | letter (character) | veliko slovo, malo slovo big letter, small letter |
Reference | BTS: 1210 | |
Comment | Example for meaning 2 - HJP |