lean, thin (of a person) infertile (soil) 12 realizations Multi-area
ACCEPTED Realization 1 (ID: 11329)
type Polysemy
language French
lexeme maigre
meaning 1 lean
direction
meaning 2 infertile (soil)
reference Larousse online
comment
ACCEPTED Realization 2 (ID: 239)
type Polysemy
language German
lexeme mager
meaning 1 lean, meagre
direction
meaning 2 barren, infertile magerer Boden
thin [exhausted] soil
reference
comment Also the It. magro, Fr. Maigre
ACCEPTED Realization 3 (ID: 2603)
type Polysemy
language German
lexeme dürr
meaning 1 lean
direction
meaning 2 lean (soil)
reference ABBYY LINGUO
comment Оба значения производны от исходного "высохший"
NEW Realization 4 (ID: 46630)
type Polysemy
language Japanese
lexeme yaseru (痩せる)
meaning 1 to lose weight
direction
meaning 2 for fertile land to become barren
reference BJaRS: 2, 592
comment
ACCEPTED Realization 5 (ID: 26089)
type Polysemy
language Kazakh
lexeme азу
meaning 1 to become thin (of a person)
direction
meaning 2 to become infertile (soil)
reference Syzdykova, Xusain (eds.) 2008: 32
comment
ACCEPTED Realization 6 (ID: 36514)
type Polysemy
language Latin
lexeme macer
meaning 1 lean

taurus macer


lean bull

direction
meaning 2 infertile (soil)

solus macer


infertile soil

reference Dvoreckij 1976: 608
comment
ACCEPTED Realization 7 (ID: 9654)
type Polysemy
language Mandarin Chinese
lexeme báo
meaning 1 thin
direction
meaning 2 barren, infertile (earth)
reference
comment БКРС 5384
ACCEPTED Realization 8 (ID: 7940)
type Polysemy
language Russian
lexeme тощий (toščij)
meaning 1 lean
direction
meaning 2 lean

тощая почва

Любовь моя, нежный цветок, взросший на тощей почве, не могла устоять против такой бури, какую довелось мне выдержать.
 [А. В. Дружинин. Рассказ Алексея Дмитрича (1848)]


lean soil
reference The Russian National Corpus
comment
ACCEPTED Realization 9 (ID: 3045)
type Polysemy
language Spanish
lexeme delgado
meaning 1 thin, lean
direction
meaning 2 poor, lean (soil)
reference
comment Narumov 1995: 268
ACCEPTED Realization 10 (ID: 2658)
type Polysemy
language Tigrinya
lexeme ʕabärä
meaning 1 to become or grow thin, lose weight (person), to become gaunt (cattle) ʔəzom ḳʷälaʕu bəzäy mäṭän ʕabirom ʔalläwu
These children are extremely thin.
direction
meaning 2 to dry out, become bare of vegetation (soil)
reference TED: 1873
comment Сf. ʕabar 'infertile, barren, dry (field, soil)' [TED 1873].
ACCEPTED Realization 11 (ID: 7044)
type Polysemy
language Tigrinya
lexeme räḳḳiḳ̆
meaning 1 thin
direction
meaning 2 barren (soil) räḳḳiḳ̆ bota
place where the soil is infertile
reference TED: 560
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ACCEPTED Realization 12 (ID: 834)
type Polysemy
language Turkish
lexeme arık
meaning 1 lean
direction
meaning 2 barren, infertile arık toprak
thin soil
reference
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