sweet-smelling, fragrant
↔
tasty
4 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Classical Arabic | |
| lexeme | ṭāba | |
| meaning 1 | to be delicious, sweet, tasty | عَذْقُ ٱبْنِ طَابٍ (ˁaḏq-u ˀbn-i ṭāb-in) a sort of palm-trees in El-Medeeneh (so called because of the sweetness of their fruit) |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to be savoury in odour | رَائِحَةٌ طَيِّبَةٌ (rā'iḥat-un ṭayyibat-un) a pleasant, sweet, or fragrant, odour |
| reference | Lane: 1900 | |
| comment | The main meaning in Arabic is 'to be good', the proto-Semitic root probably having both the meaning 'fragrant' and 'good'. Cf. Akkadian ṭābu ‘good, aromatic, of good quality’ (CAD Ṭ 19). | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Syncretism | |
| language | Classical Arabic | |
| lexeme | ḳadiyy- | |
| meaning 1 | tasty | ṭaʕām-un ḳadiyy-un tasty and fragrant food |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | fragrant | |
| reference | BK: II 693 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Geez | |
| lexeme | ṭəʕum | |
| meaning 1 | fragrant | maʕazā ṭəʕum sweet fragrance |
| direction | ← | |
| meaning 2 | tasty, savoury | mabāləʕt ṭ̣əʕum savoury food |
| reference | LLA: 1242 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Komi | |
| lexeme | чöскыд | |
| meaning 1 | tasty, delicious | чöскыд сёян tasty food |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | fragrant | чöскыд дука дзоридз fragrant flower |
| reference | ||
| comment | КомиРС 709-710 | |
Cf. Williams 1976:463f.