stingy
→
scanty, scarce
3 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| NEW Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | French | |
| lexeme | avare | |
| meaning 1 | stingy | être avare de qch to save, not spend smth |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | scanty, poor | jour avare poor light |
| reference | ABBYY LINGUO | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Lezgian | |
| lexeme | mišeqːat | |
| meaning 1 | stingy | мишекъат инсан stingy person |
| meaning 2 | poor (in smth) | векьиз мишекъат чка a place with little grass, plants |
| reference | ||
| comment | (LezgRus 241). The same in Tabassaran (МУШАКЪАТ), where it also means 'poor (e.g. person)', cf. (TabRus 238). | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Russian | |
| lexeme | skupoj | |
| meaning 1 | too thrifty | a. Он до крайности скуп. 'He is extremely stingy.' b. Мольер и Гоголь создали бессмертные образы скупого человека. 'Molière and Gogol created immortal stingy characters.' |
| meaning 2 | scanty | Скупой свет керосиновой лампы. 'Scanty light of a petrol lamp.' |
| reference | ||
| comment | (Ushakov) | |