door
→
manner, way
2 realizations
Related shifts
ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Classical Arabic | |
Lexeme | bāb- | |
Meaning 1 | a door; a gate; a place of entrance | bāb-u d-dār-i 'the door of the house' |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | a means of access; an expedient, a trick, a stratagem | ̣ʔabwāb-u l-ḥarb-i 'the expedients of war' |
Reference | ||
Comment | Lane 272-273; cf. also bābat- 'a mode, or manner' (ibid.) (derived from bāb-) |
ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Swahili | |
Lexeme | mlango | |
Meaning 1 | door | |
Meaning 2 | way, access, method | |
Reference | ||
Comment | Polikanov |