to rest
→
to die
4 realizations
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
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| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Classical Arabic | |
| lexeme | ʔarāḥa | |
| meaning 1 | to breath; to have rest | أَرَاحَ بَعِيرَهُ (ʔarāḥa baˁīrahu) He alighted from his camel to rest him and to alleviate him. |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to die | أَرَاحَ فَأَرَاحَ (ʔarāḥa fa-ʔarāḥa) He rested, i. e. had rest, and so rested others (meaning: he died, and so people became at rest from him). |
| reference | Lane: 1179 | |
| comment | The original meaning is 'to breath'; cf. also ʔistarāḥa ‘to rest’, mustarāḥ- ‘the grave (as a place of rest or ease)’; mustarāḥ-, mustarīḥ- ‘the dead’ (Lane 1179, 1183). The idea behind is that the person he revived, or his spirit returned to him, after fatigue, and he had rest, and hence, he died as though he rested. |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Geez | |
| lexeme | ʔaʕrafa | |
| meaning 1 | to rest, find rest, come to rest, be at ease, find relief | kama yāʕrəfu ʔəm-́ṣāmāhomu (Apoc. 14:13) So that they have rest from their toil. |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to die | ba-zātti ʕəlat ʔaʕrafa ḳəddus ʔab ṗeṭros On this day Saint Father Peter passed away. |
| reference | CDG: 69 LLA: 970 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Mongolian (Khalkha) | |
| lexeme | amarli- | |
| meaning 1 | to calm down, to rest, to find peace | амжилтандаа амарлих to rest on one'e laurels (lit. to relax after your successes) |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to die | |
| reference | ||
| comment | БАМРС | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Russian | |
| lexeme 1 | покой | |
| lexeme 2 | покойник | |
| meaning 1 | rest | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | deadman | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||