sediment → lumpen 4 realizations
ACCEPTED Realization 1
type Polysemy
language French
lexeme lie
meaning 1 residue, dregs
direction —
meaning 2 lumpen la lie du peuple
dregs of society
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comment
ACCEPTED Realization 2
type Polysemy
language Italian
lexeme feccia
meaning 1 residue, sediment, dregs
meaning 2 scum (fig.) la feccia della società
dregs of society, lumpens
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comment
ACCEPTED Realization 3
type Polysemy
language Mandarin Chinese
lexeme 渣滓 (zhāzi)
meaning 1 residue, dregs, husks
direction →
meaning 2 scum (fig.)
reference BKRS: 87
comment
ACCEPTED Realization 4
type Derivation
language Russian
lexeme подонок (podonok)
meaning 1 (obsolete) residue in liquids "пили только из двух бокалов, а в третий слили подонки" (А Конан Дойль "Убийство в Эбби-Грейндж", пер. Льва Борового)
"only two glasses were used, and that the dregs of both were poured into a third glass" (Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Abbey Grange", Russian translation by Lev Borovoj)
direction →
meaning 2 dreg
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comment In first meamimg also as singaria tantum подонки

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