bad
↔
lean, thin (of a person)
6 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 | |
| 1890 | correct, right | → | fat (adj.)(of a person) | Open |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Classical Arabic | |
| lexeme | ġaṯṯa | |
| meaning 1 | to be bad | ġaṯṯat ʕalaynā makkat-un fa-lā budda lanā min ḫurūğ-in Mekka has become unpleasing to us, so that there is for us no avoiding going forth. |
| direction | ← | |
| meaning 2 | to be lean, meagre | ġaṯṯa baʕīrī ṯumma ġaṯṯaṯa My camel became lean, then he became somewhat fat. |
| reference | Lane: 2229 BK: II 435 | |
| comment | Meaning B is cited as primary. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Cognates | |
| language 1 | German | |
| language 2 | English | |
| lexeme 1 | schlimm | |
| lexeme 2 | slim | |
| meaning 1 | bad | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | slim, thin | |
| reference | ||
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Karaim | |
| lexeme | арыкълыкъ | |
| meaning 1 | trouble, misery | арыкълыкъ манъар woe is me! (lit. I am lost) |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | meagreness | |
| reference | ||
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Lezgian | |
| lexeme | usal | |
| meaning 1 | plain, poor, unsightly | усал парча fabric of bad quality |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | thin, lean | усал хьун to lose weight (also to get worse) |
| reference | ||
| comment | (LezgRus 328) | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Russian | |
| lexeme 1 | худой | |
| lexeme 2 | худой | |
| meaning 1 | bad | худой мир лучше доброй ссоры things look bad |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | thin | худой мальчик a thin boy |
| reference | MAS: IV, 630 | |
| comment | The meaning 'bad' is updated; it persists only in the idiomatic expressions, cf на худой конец. Cf. the noun худо: Нет худа без добра |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Yakut | |
| lexeme | дьудэй- | |
| meaning 1 | to decay | балык дьүдэйбит the fish got rotten |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | to lose weight | оҕонньор дьүдэйбит the old man lost weight |
| reference | ||
| comment | ЯРС 134. | |