messenger
→
angel
6 realizations
Multi-area
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 (ID: 1207) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Ancient Greek | |
| lexeme | ἄγγελος | |
| meaning 1 | messenger | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | angel | |
| reference | LSJ: 7 | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 2 (ID: 51977) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Cognates | |
| language 1 | Avestan | |
| language 2 | Farsi | |
| lexeme 1 | fraēšta- | |
| lexeme 2 | arišta / ferešte (فرشته) | |
| meaning 1 | messenger | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | angel | čūn farišta būd hamčūn dēw šud (چون فرشته بود همچون دیو شد She was like an angel, she became like a demon, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 713: |
| reference | English Wiktionary | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 4 (ID: 31035) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Classical Armenian | |
| lexeme | hreštak (հրեշտակ) | |
| meaning 1 | messenger | hreštak Hayrapetin Hṙovmay (հրեշտակ Հայրապետին Հռովմայ) the Pope's nuncio |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | angel | pahapan hreštak (պահապան հրեշտակ) |
| reference | Petrosean, Matatʿeay 1879 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 (ID: 8432) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Geez | |
| lexeme | malʔak | |
| meaning 1 | ambassador, messenger | malāʔəkt rawāṣəyān (Jes. 18:2) quick messengers |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | angel | malāʔəkt za-maḳśaft (Hen. 56:1) the punishing angels |
| reference | LLA: 48 | |
| comment | A Greek calque. | |
| NEW Realization 6 (ID: 51978) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Complex derivation | |
| language | Japanese | |
| lexeme 1 | shi (使) + ten (天) | |
| lexeme 2 | tenshi (天使) | |
| meaning 1 | messenger + sky, heaven | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | angel | |
| reference | English Wiktionary | |
| comment | https://www.kanjipedia.jp/kotoba/0005039800 |
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