green
→
dark-skinned
3 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Classical Arabic | |
| lexeme | ʔaḫḍar- | |
| meaning 1 | green | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | black, dark-skinned | |
| reference | ||
| comment | BK I 586; Fischer 1965:338. It is also used to denote horses' colour - meaning 'dark'. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Farsi | |
| lexeme 1 | سبز sabz | |
| lexeme 2 | سبزه sabze | |
| meaning 1 | green (plants) | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | swarthy | |
| reference | Rubinčik 1970: 2, 16 | |
| comment | ПРС 437. Не калька ли это с арабского, где зеленый используется как цвет кожи (смуглой, темной, но не черной); ср. кальки в эфиосемитские языки | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Cognates | |
| language 1 | Geez | |
| language 2 | Tigrinya | |
| lexeme 1 | ḥamalmil | |
| lexeme 2 | ḥamälmil | |
| meaning 1 | green (LGz. 233) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | brown (leather) (KT 170KT 170) | |
| reference | ||
| comment | Cf. Also the Tigre ḥamalmil 'brown' (also skin) (LH 59). Presumably both Tigre and Tigrinya have calques from Arabic. | |