green
→
dark-skinned
3 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Classical Arabic | |
| lexeme | أَخْضَرُ ʔaḫḍaru | |
| meaning 1 | green | māʔ-un ʔaḫḍar-u Water inclining to a green colour, by reason of its clearness. |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | black, dark-skinned | ʔaḫḍar-u ʔaṭḥal-u tawny, brownish (man, horse) |
| reference | BK: I 586 Fischer 1965: 338 Lane: 754f. | |
| comment | It is also applied to horses, camels, asses, birds with the meaning 'dark; ashy; dust-colour'. And phrase أَخْضَرُ الجِلْدَةِ ʔaḫḍar-u l-gildat-i (lit. tawny of skin) means “of pure race, of genuine Arab origin”, because the complexions of the Arabs are tawny. | |
| 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 | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | brown (leather) | |
| reference | CDG: 233 TED: 170 | |
| comment | Cf. Also the Tigre ḥamalmil 'brown' (also skin) (WTS 59). Presumably both Tigre and Tigrinya have calques from Arabic. | |