dog
→
rabid
1 realization
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| 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) | |