edge, border
→
blade
3 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | 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 | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | English | |
| Lexeme | edge | |
| Meaning 1 | edge | along the edge of the cliff on the edge of the rock |
| Meaning 2 | blade | the edge of the razor the edge of the razor |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | ||