'a mechanical device of a ship; a part of the battering ram''
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CAD I 110, 114-5. See SED II No. 98; also No. 37.
Realization
Type
Polysemy
Language
Latin
Lexeme
onager
Meaning 1
wild donkey
Direction
→
Meaning 2
stone fougasse
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From the Greek ὄναγρος 'wild donkey'
Realization
Type
Polysemy
Language
Syriac
Lexeme
ʕərādā
Meaning 1
‘wild ass (asinus ferus)’
Direction
→
Meaning 2
'machine (machina)'
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Comment
Brock. 547. See SED II, No. 37, also for other Semitic terms going to Proto-Semitic 'wild ass', on the one hand, and for the derived terms with the meaning 'catapult, kind of sieging engine', on the other hand. Probably a calque from Greek onagros, Latin onager.