to pierce
→
woman
2 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Semantic evolution | |
| Language 1 | Classical Arabic | |
| Language 2 | Ancient Hebrew | |
| Lexeme 1 | نَقَبَ naqaba | |
| Lexeme 2 | nəḳēbā | |
| Meaning 1 | to pierce, to bore | نَقَبَ سُرَّةَ الدَّابَّةِ He (a farrier) perforated the navel of the beast in order that a yellow fluid might issue forth. |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | woman, female ("perforata") | pän-tašḥiṯūn wa-ˁăsīṯäm lāḵäm päśäl təmūnaṯ kōl śāmäl taḇnīṯ zāḵār ˀō nəḳēbā (Deut 4:16) Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female. |
| Reference | Kogan 2015: 238 HALOT: 719 Lane: 2833 | |
| Comment | From PS *nḳb 'to tear, to pierce, to bore. 'Cf. also Akk. naḳābu 'to deflower; to rape' (CAD N₁ 328, AHw. 743). |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Syriac | |
| Lexeme 1 | nḳb | |
| Lexeme 2 | neḳbtā | |
| Meaning 1 | to pierce, to make a hole | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | woman, female ("perforata") | |
| Reference | LSyr.: 444 SL: 944 | |
| Comment | ||