zebra horse 24 realizations Multi-area
NEW Realization 1
type Derivation
language Armenian
lexeme 1 vagraji (վագր)
lexeme 2 ji (ձի)
meaning 1 zebra
direction
meaning 2 horse
reference English Wiktionary
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vagr (վագր) 'tiger'

NEW Realization 2
type Derivation
language Cantonese Chinese
lexeme 1 baan1 maa5 (斑馬/斑马)
lexeme 2 maa5 (馬/马)
meaning 1 zebra
direction
meaning 2 horse
reference English Wiktionary
comment

'striped horse'

NEW Realization 3
type Derivation
language Hakka Chinese
lexeme 1 pân-mâ (斑馬/斑马)
lexeme 2 mâ (馬/马)
meaning 1 zebra
direction
meaning 2 horse
reference English Wiktionary
comment

'striped horse'

NEW Realization 4
type Derivation
language Japanese
lexeme 1 shimauma (縞馬)
lexeme 2 uma (馬)
meaning 1 zebra
direction
meaning 2 horse
reference BJaRS English Wiktionary
comment

'stripe' + 'horse'

NEW Realization 5
type Polysemy
language Khwe
lexeme bèyèé
meaning 1 zebra
direction
meaning 2 horse
reference Kilian-Hatz, Khwe dictionary. 2003: 20 Comparative Khoe-Kwadi
comment

The original meaning attested in the whole family is considered to be "zebra". "Horse" is otherwise depicted as "home-zebra".

NEW Realization 6
type Derivation
language Korean
lexeme 1 eollungmal (얼룩말)
lexeme 2 mal (말)
meaning 1 zebra
direction
meaning 2 horse
reference English Wiktionary
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eolluk (얼룩) 'spotted, variegated'

NEW Realization 7
type Derivation
language Lao
lexeme 1 mā lāi (ມ້າລາຍ)
lexeme 2 mā (ມ້າ)
meaning 1 zebra
direction
meaning 2 horse
reference SEAlang Lao
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lāi (ລາຍ) 'stripe, line, band'

NEW Realization 8
type Derivation
language Malay
lexeme 1 kuda belang
lexeme 2 kuda
meaning 1 zebra
direction
meaning 2 horse
reference SEALang Malay
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belang 'stripe'

NEW Realization 9
type Derivation
language Malayalam
lexeme 1 varayaṉkutira (വരയൻകുതിര)
lexeme 2 kutira (കുതിര)
meaning 1 zebra
direction
meaning 2 horse
reference <personally collected data>
comment

vari (വരി) 'stripe, line'

NEW Realization 10
type Derivation
language Mandarin Chinese
lexeme 1 bānmǎ (斑馬 / 斑马)
lexeme 2 mǎ (馬 / 马)
meaning 1 zebra
direction
meaning 2 horse
reference BKRS English Wiktionary
comment

'striped horse'

NEW Realization 11
type Derivation
language Navajo
lexeme 1 tééh łį́į́ʼ
lexeme 2 łį́į́ʼ
meaning 1 zebra
direction
meaning 2 horse
reference <personally collected data>
comment

tééh 'water' + łį́į́ʼ 'horse' (a mythological animal).

Robert W. Young, William Morgan (1943), The Navajo Language: The Elements of Navaho Grammar with a Dictionary in Two Parts Containing Basic Vocabularies of Navaho and English‎, U.S. Indian Service, Education Division, page 188

NEW Realization 12
type Semantic evolution
language 1 Portuguese
language 2 Latin
lexeme 1 zebra
lexeme 2 equiferus
meaning 1 zebra
direction
meaning 2 wild horse

De equiferis non scripserunt Graeci, quoniam terrae illae non gignebant, verum tamen fortiora omnia eadem quam in equis intellegi debent.

Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 28.45.159


    About wild horses the Greeks have not written, because Greek lands did not breed them, but it must be inferred that all remedies from them are more potent than from the tame animal.

reference OED
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Portuguese zebra 'zebra', zebro 'wild horse or a wild ass (Equus hydruntinus, an extinct equine)', from Old Galician-Portuguese enzebro, ezebra, azebra (“wild ass”), from earlier cebrario (882), ezebrario (897), from Vulgar Latin *eciferus, from Latin equiferus 'wild horse', from equus 'horse' + ferus 'wild'

NEW Realization 13
type Derivation
language Southern Min (Min Nan)
lexeme 1 pan-bé (斑馬/斑马)
lexeme 2 bé (馬/马)
meaning 1 zebra
direction
meaning 2 horse
reference English Wiktionary
comment

'striped horse'

NEW Realization 14
type Derivation
language Southern Min (Min Nan)
lexeme 1 hoe-pan-bé (花斑馬/花斑马)
lexeme 2 bé (馬/马)
meaning 1 zebra
direction
meaning 2 horse
reference English Wiktionary
comment

'spotted horse'

NEW Realization 15
type Derivation
language Southern Min (Min Nan)
lexeme 1 hoe-tiâu-bé (花條馬/花条马)
lexeme 2 bé (馬/马)
meaning 1 zebra
direction
meaning 2 horse
reference English Wiktionary
comment

'striped horse'

NEW Realization 16
type Derivation
language Taiwanese Hokkien
lexeme 1 pan-má (斑馬/斑马)
lexeme 2 má (馬/马)
meaning 1 zebra
direction
meaning 2 horse
reference English Wiktionary
comment

'striped horse'

NEW Realization 17
type Derivation
language Tamil
lexeme 1 varikkutirai (வரிக்குதிரை)
lexeme 2 kutirai (குதிரை)
meaning 1 zebra
direction
meaning 2 horse
reference Ramakrishnan 1992
comment

https://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/app/crea_query.py?qs=%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%88&searchhws=yes&matchtype=exact 

vari (வரி) 'stripe, line'

NEW Realization 18
type Derivation
language Telugu
lexeme 1 cāralagurramu (చారలగుర్రము)
lexeme 2 gurramu (గుర్రము)
meaning 1 zebra
direction
meaning 2 horse
reference Brown Telugu dictionary
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cāra (చార) 'line, stripe'

NEW Realization 19
type Derivation
language Teochew (Chaozhou)
lexeme 1 bang1 bhê2 (斑馬/斑马)
lexeme 2 bhê2 (馬/马)
meaning 1 zebra
direction
meaning 2 horse
reference English Wiktionary
comment

'striped horse'

NEW Realization 20
type Derivation
language Thai
lexeme 1 máa-laai (ม้าลาย)
lexeme 2 máa (ม้า)
meaning 1 zebra
direction
meaning 2 horse
reference SEAlang Thai
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laai (ม้า) 'striped'

NEW Realization 21
type Derivation
language Tibetan
lexeme 1 rkyang khra (རྐྱང་ཁྲ)
lexeme 2 rkyang (རྐྱང)
meaning 1 zebra
direction
meaning 2 horse
reference <personally collected data>
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khra (ཁྲ) 'striped'

NEW Realization 22
type Derivation
language Unami
lexeme 1 mamalsit nehënaonkès
lexeme 2 nehënaonkès
meaning 1 zebra
direction
meaning 2 horse
reference <personally collected data>
comment

Grant Leneaux, Raymond Whritenour, editors, The Lenape Talking Dictionary, The Lenape Language Preservation Project

https://talk-lenape.org/results?query=neh%C3%ABnaonk%C3%A8s&lang=lenape 

From mamalsit anim (“striped; striped thing”) +‎ nehënaonkès (“horse”), literally “striped horse”. 

NEW Realization 23
type Derivation
language Vietnamese
lexeme 1 ngựa vằn
lexeme 2 ngựa
meaning 1 zebra
direction
meaning 2 horse
reference SEAlang Vietnamese
comment

vằn 'striped'

NEW Realization 24
type Derivation
language Wu Chinese
lexeme 1 1pe-mo (斑馬/斑马)
lexeme 2 mo (馬/马)
meaning 1 zebra
direction
meaning 2 horse
reference English Wiktionary
comment

'striped horse'