Romani
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to ask (for)
4 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Armenian | |
| Lexeme | boša (բոշա) | |
| Meaning 1 | a member of the Bosha, an Armenian Gypsy | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | beggar | |
| Reference | Galstjan 1984: 132 | |
| Comment | bošayut‘un anel (բոշայութուն անել) 'to ask, beg' | |
| NEW Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Croatian | |
| Lexeme 1 | Ciganin | |
| Lexeme 2 | cigančiti | |
| Meaning 1 | Gipsy, Gypsy | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to ask (for), to beg | |
| Reference | HJP | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Russian | |
| Lexeme 1 | цыган (cygan) | |
| Lexeme 2 | выцыганить (vycyganit') | |
| Meaning 1 | a nomadic tribe of indian origin | Цыганы шумною толпой по Бессарабии кочуют. (Пушкин) Gypsies in a noisy crowd roam about in Bessarabia. (Pushkin) |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | to ask, to solicit (Ushakov, principal meaning) | Дочке удалось-таки выцыганить у отца денег на новую юбку. The daughter succeeded in scrounging from her father the money for a new skirt. |
| Reference | BAS | |
| Comment | Cf. Dal': ВЫЦЫГАНИВАТЬ - выменять, променять, добыть меною, плутовски, выбарышничать'to get smth by exchange, barter, rascally'. | |
| NEW Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Serbian | |
| Lexeme 1 | Циганин (Ciganin) | |
| Lexeme 2 | циганчити (cigančiti) | |
| Meaning 1 | Gipsy, Gypsy | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to ask (for), to beg | |
| Reference | Vujanitsh et al. 2007: 1488 | |
| Comment | ||