spot, stain
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place
3 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Classical Arabic | |
| lexeme 1 | ʔabḳaʕ- | |
| lexeme 2 | buḳʕat- | |
| meaning 1 | black and white | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | lot, land | fī kull-I buḳʕat-in in any place, anywhere |
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| comment | Lane 235, BK I 150. Lexeme buḳʕat- apparently originally meant 'a stain', cf. Contexts where meanings A and B are combined: fī l-ʔarḍ-I buḳaʕ-u min nabt-in 'in the land are small portions of herbage' | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | spot | |
| meaning 1 | spot (НБАРС 331) | spot of mud spot of mud (НБАРС 331) |
| meaning 2 | place, region, district | to investigate on the spot to investigate on the spot |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | German | |
| lexeme | Fleck | |
| meaning 1 | spot [НЕМ 321] | einen Fleck entfernen, auswaschen [Duden 1256] to remove a stain |
| meaning 2 | place (colloq.) [НЕМ 321] | ich stehe schon eine Studne auf demselben Fleck [Duden 1256] I have been standing on the same spot for an hour |
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