to drop (of liquid)
→
spot, stain
3 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Classical Arabic | |
| Lexeme | baḳḳaʕa | |
| Meaning 1 | 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 |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | to make spotty | baḳḳaʕa t̲-t̲awb-a He got the dress sprinkled with paint, he dyed the dress by fits |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | Lane 235; cf. also baḳiʕa 'to be sprinkled with water';' to be motley coloured, black and white, spotty' | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Meaning 2 | speckled | Die Krawatte ist bunt gesprenkelt a tie with motley dots |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | Duden 3671 | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Russian | |
| Lexeme 1 | kropit' | |
| Lexeme 2 | krap | |
| Meaning 1 | to sprinkle | кропить святой водою to sprinkle with holy water |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | speckle | ср. также в крапинку, крапчатый cf. Speckeld, mottled |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | Фасмер II, 366, 382 |
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