to cut
→
to cut off relationships
3 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 | ḳaṭaʕa | |
| meaning 1 | 'to cut' | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | 'to cut off one's friendship, break (with s.o.); to cut, snub (s.o.)' | fa-ḥbab ʔaḫāhā ʔiḏā kāna bihāḏihi ṣ-ṣifat-i wa-lā taḳṭaʕhu ‘love your brother if he is of such qualities, and do not cut him (do not ignore him)’ (Alf layla wa-layla vol. 1, 377) |
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| SUSPENDED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | to cut | |
| meaning 1 | to cut | to cut the rope |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | fail to recognize smn in public, to pretend not to know a person | she cut him dead at the meeting |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
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| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Spanish | |
| lexeme | cortar | |
| meaning 1 | to cut | María se ha cortado el pelo Maria has cut her hair |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to cut off relationships | María ha cortado con Juan Maria has broken up with Juan |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
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