sediment → dregs of society 6 realizations MACROAREA: Eurasia
ACCEPTED Realization 1 (ID: 5673)
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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ACCEPTED Realization 2 (ID: 3497)
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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NEW Realization 3 (ID: 52451)
type Polysemy
language Macedonian
lexeme талог
meaning 1 sediment

Го испива кафето и сама си гледа во црниот талог. 


She drinks her coffee and gazes into the black dregs.

direction →
meaning 2 people from the lowest, worst stratum of society

Околу мене само талогот на градот го завршуваше долгиот ден.


Around me, only the city's dregs were bringing the long day to a close.

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ACCEPTED Realization 4 (ID: 3997)
type Polysemy
language Mandarin Chinese
lexeme 渣滓 (zhāzi)
meaning 1 residue, dregs, husks
direction →
meaning 2 scum (fig.)
reference BKRS: 87
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ACCEPTED Realization 5 (ID: 5278)
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
ACCEPTED Realization 6 (ID: 47117)
type Polysemy
language Serbian
lexeme талог (talоg)
meaning 1 sediment
direction →
meaning 2 lumpen
reference РСЈ: 1300
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