word
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matter, affair
3 realizations
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Ancient Hebrew | |
| lexeme | dābār | |
| meaning 1 | word | dābār ṭōb ‘a good word’ (Ps 45:2) |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | matter; thing, something | dəbar ham-malkā ‘the queen's deed’ (Est 1:17) |
| reference | ||
| comment | (HALOT 211). | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Geez | |
| lexeme | nagar | |
| meaning 1 | speech, talk, word, language | ʔi-tāwṣəʔ nagara za-samāʕka (Sirach 19:10): ‘do not let go out the word that you have heard’ |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | thing, affair, matter | ba- ʔənta nagara ṭāʕot ʔəʔezzəzakəmu ‘concerning the matter of the idol I order you’; laʔəmma gabarka lita zanta nagara ʔərəʕ(ʕ)i kāʕba ʔabāgəʕika wa-ʔaʕaḳḳəb 'if you do this thing to me, I will again tend your sheep and watch them' (Gen. 30:31) |
| reference | ||
| comment | (LGz. 392; LLA 690-691). The primary meaning is А, cf. Nagara 'to speak'. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Oromo | |
| lexeme | dubbii | |
| meaning 1 | speech | Ulfaatton durateessicci dubbii dubbatan heessatti akka akeekkaccisanitti 'as the honorable chairman painted out in the speech he pronounced...' |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | affair; thing | Asirratti dubbii tokko hubaccuu nu barbaaccisa 'here it is necessary to pay attention to one matter' |
| reference | ||
| comment | (Gragg 1982:110). | |
Cf. also Arabic ʔamr- 'order; affair; thing' (BK I 54) (the original meaning of the root ʔmr is 'to speak', cp. its cognate in Ancient Hebrew ʔmr (qal) 'to say' (HALOT 66).