to drop (of liquid) spot, stain 3 realizations MACROAREA: Eurasia
ACCEPTED Realization 1 (ID: 1333)
type Polysemy
language Classical Arabic
lexeme baḳḳaʕa (بَقَّعَ)
meaning 1 to splash, sprinkle baḳḳaʕa l-maṭar-u fī mawāḍiʕ-in min-a l-ʔarḍ-i
The rain sprinkled the earth in parts, the rain fell by fits and starts.
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meaning 2 to make spotty baḳḳaʕa t̲-t̲awb-a
He got the dress sprinkled with paint, he dyed the dress by fits.
reference Lane: 235
comment Cf. also, baḳiʕa (pass.) 'to be sprinkled with water';' to be motley coloured, black and white, spotty'.
ACCEPTED Realization 2 (ID: 2167)
type Derivation
language German
lexeme 1 sprenkeln
lexeme 2 gesprenkelt
meaning 1 splash, sprinkle Er sprenkelte Wasser auf die Bügelwäsche.
He sprinkled some water on the washing he was ironing.
direction
meaning 2 speckled Die Krawatte ist bunt gesprenkelt.
A tie with motley dots.
reference Duden: 3671
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ACCEPTED Realization 3 (ID: 7121)
type Derivation
language Russian
lexeme 1 кропить (kropit')
lexeme 2 крап (krap)
meaning 1 to sprinkle кропить святой водой
to sprinkle with holy water
direction
meaning 2 speckle в крапинку, крапчатый
speckeld, mottled
reference Fasmer 1986: II 366, 382
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