The Database of Semantic Shifts in the languages of the world

ID	Relation type	Meaning 1	Direction	Meaning 2

ACCEPTED Realization 1
type		Derivation
language		Classical Arabic
lexeme 1		kalb-
lexeme 2		kaliba
meaning 1	'dog'
direction	→
meaning 2	'to be seized with madness, with hydrophobia (said of a dog, of a man)'
reference
comment		Lane 2624; cf. also kalab- 'madness which affects a dog in consequence of eating human flesh; madness like that of dogs, which affecxts a man in consequence of his having been bitten by a mad dog; a disease that befalls a man from the bite of a mad dog,... so that whomsoever he bites, that person also becomes in like manner affected, abstaining from drinking water' (Lane 2626)