rice food 16 realizations
ACCEPTED Realization 1
Type Cognates
Language 1 Batak Toba
Language 2 Javanese
Lexeme 1 da-han
Lexeme 2 paŋan
Meaning 1 rice boiling
Direction
Meaning 2 food
Reference
Comment The Proto-Austronesian root *kaən 'to eat' : Malay ma-kan 'to eat', белау məŋaŋ 'to eat', самоа 'a-'an-o 'meat'. Сирк 2008, 188
ACCEPTED Realization 2
Type Polysemy
Language Burmese
Lexeme тхəмѝн
Meaning 1 boiled rice
Direction
Meaning 2 food
Reference
Comment Novikov et al. 1976, 258
NEW Realization 3
Type Polysemy
Language Cebuano
Lexeme kan-on
Meaning 1 rice
Direction
Meaning 2 to eat
Reference <personally collected data>
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 4
Type Polysemy
Language Japanese
Lexeme gohan (ご飯)
Meaning 1 cooked rice ご飯とパンどちらがいいですか
Which do you prefer, rice or bread?
Direction
Meaning 2 meal of any sort 友達にご飯をおごってもらった
My friends treated me to a meal
Reference EDICT
Comment
NEW Realization 5
Type Polysemy
Language Korean
Lexeme bap (밥)
Meaning 1 cooked rice
Direction
Meaning 2 food, meal

gaebap (개밥)


dog food

Reference English Wiktionary
Comment
NEW Realization 6
Type Polysemy
Language Korean
Lexeme jinji (진지)
Meaning 1 (honorific) cooked rice
Direction
Meaning 2 (honorific) food, meal
Reference English Wiktionary
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 7
Type Polysemy
Language Lao
Lexeme t͡ʃaŋ3-han1
Meaning 1 rice
Direction
Meaning 2 food (monks' alms)
Reference
Comment Morev et al. 1982, 198
NEW Realization 8
Type Polysemy
Language Mandarin Chinese
Lexeme fàn (飯)
Meaning 1 cooked rice

Nǐ yào chī fàn háishì chī miàn? (你要吃飯還是吃麵? / 你要吃饭还是吃面?)


Do you want to eat rice or noodles?

Direction
Meaning 2 meal

zǎofàn (早飯/早饭)


breakfast

Reference English Wiktionary
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 9
Type Polysemy
Language Sanskrit
Lexeme anna
Meaning 1 boiled rice
Direction
Meaning 2 food
Reference MW: 45
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 10
Type Polysemy
Language Sanskrit
Lexeme jīvsādhana
Meaning 1 rice
Direction
Meaning 2 food
Reference
Comment lit. 'means to live' Кочергина 225
NEW Realization 11
Type Polysemy
Language Tagalog
Lexeme kanin
Meaning 1 rice
Direction
Meaning 2 (obsolete) food
Reference SEAlang Tagalog
Comment

From a syncopic form of kainin 'thing to be eaten'.

NEW Realization 12
Type Polysemy
Language Tai Lue
Lexeme ẋaw2 (ᦃᧁᧉ)
Meaning 1 rice
Direction
Meaning 2 food
Reference English Wiktionary
Comment
NEW Realization 13
Type Polysemy
Language Tamil
Lexeme aṉṉam (அன்னம்)
Meaning 1 (archaic) boiled rice
Direction
Meaning 2 food
Reference Tamil lexicon
Comment
NEW Realization 14
Type Polysemy
Language Telugu
Lexeme annamu (అన్నము)
Meaning 1 boiled rice
Direction
Meaning 2 food
Reference Brown Telugu dictionary
Comment
NEW Realization 15
Type Polysemy
Language Telugu
Lexeme buvva (బువ్వ)
Meaning 1 rice
Direction
Meaning 2 food
Reference Brown Telugu dictionary
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 16
Type Polysemy
Language Thai
Lexeme jang-vât
Meaning 1 rice
Direction
Meaning 2 food
Reference
Comment Morev 1964, 191marked as "Budd."