edge, border
→
blade, edge (of an instrument)
4 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 | |
| 8166 | to sharpen | → | to set bounds | Open |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Classical Arabic | |
| lexeme | ḥadd- | |
| meaning 1 | edge | الحدّ الفاصل بين the demarcation line between; watershed |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | blade | بحدّ السيف with a sword (lit. with a blade of sword) |
| reference | Lane: 525 BK: I 388 | |
| comment | From the verb ḥadda- 'to sharpen, to hone (a knife)' (Wehr:187) with the semantic shift towards 'to delimit, to set bounds' (ibid.), and ḥadd- 'limit (also fig.)' (ibid.). | |
| NEW Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Classical Arabic | |
| lexeme 1 | شَفْر šafr- | |
| lexeme 2 | شَفْرَة šafra- | |
| meaning 1 | edge, rim, border, fringe | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | blade (of a sword, of a knife), large knife | |
| reference | Lane: 1580 Wehr: 558 | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Turkish | |
| lexeme | uç | |
| meaning 1 | edge, border | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | blade | |
| reference | Baskakov 1977: 877 | |
| comment | ||