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| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 (ID: 8108) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Armenian | |
| lexeme | astġ աստղ | |
| meaning 1 | star | kinoastġ (կինոաստղ) |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | celebrity | movie star |
| reference | Galstjan 1984: 78 | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 2 (ID: 20872) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Catalan | |
| lexeme | estrella | |
| meaning 1 | star | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | celebrity | És l’estrella de la pel·lícula. |
| reference | DIEC2 | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 3 (ID: 21039) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Croatian | |
| lexeme | zvijezda | |
| meaning 1 | star | jutarnja zvijezda morning star |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | celebrity | filmska zvijezda, rok zvijezda film star, rock star |
| reference | HJP | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 (ID: 11454) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Danish | |
| lexeme | stjerne | |
| meaning 1 | star | stjerner på himlen stars in the sky |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | celebrity | filmstjerne movie star |
| reference | DDO | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 (ID: 10720) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | star | |
| meaning 1 | star | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | celebrity | guest star |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 (ID: 176) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Finnish | |
| lexeme | tähti | |
| meaning 1 | star | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | celebrity | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 7 (ID: 20873) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | French | |
| lexeme | étoile | |
| meaning 1 | star | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | artist particularly known and appreciated by the public. | La blonde Géraldine, une étoile d'opérettes (Zola, Nana,1880, p. 1325).Les premiers grands impresarii, s'annexent à coups de dollars les étoiles européennes (Morand, New-York,1930, p. 168).Je songeais qu'il est étrange que le cinéma exige de ses étoiles cet excès de maquillage pour atteindre à nous livrer, d'une figure, la pure essence (Mauriac, Journal 1,1934, p. 30). |
| reference | CNRTL | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 8 (ID: 20874) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | German | |
| lexeme | Stern | |
| meaning 1 | star | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | person enjoying great popularity | ein Schlagerstern |
| reference | DWDS | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 9 (ID: 11456) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Icelandic | |
| lexeme | stjarna | |
| meaning 1 | star | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | celebrity | |
| reference | ISLEX | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 10 (ID: 20877) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Indonesian | |
| lexeme | bintang | |
| meaning 1 | star | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | person famous as a singer/actor/actress/sports figure, etc. | |
| reference | SEALang Indonesia | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 11 (ID: 20868) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Italian | |
| lexeme | stella | |
| meaning 1 | star | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | celebrity | Greta Garbo fu una stella di prima grandezza |
| reference | Vocabolario Treccani | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 12 (ID: 20866) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Lao | |
| lexeme | dàːláː | |
| meaning 1 | star | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | celebrity | |
| reference | Morev et al. 1982: 384 | |
| comment | SEALang Lao | |
| NEW Realization 13 (ID: 20867) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Latvian | |
| lexeme | zvaigzne | |
| meaning 1 | star | spožas zvaigznes bright stars |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | celebrity | baleta, teātra zvaigzne ballet, theater star |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 14 (ID: 15670) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Mandarin Chinese | |
| lexeme | xīng (星) | |
| meaning 1 | star, planet | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | celebrity; famous | Nà wèi nǚ míngxīng niǔniē de zǒu guò wǔtái. (那位女明星扭捏地走过舞台。) The female star minced onto the stage. |
| reference | BKRS | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 15 (ID: 11453) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Norwegian | |
| lexeme | stjerne | |
| meaning 1 | star | i vest blinket en stor stjerne a large star was shining in the West |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | celebrity | filmstjerne movie star |
| reference | BO | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 16 (ID: 20869) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Portuguese | |
| lexeme | estrela | |
| meaning 1 | star | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | celebrity | estrela do music-hall; estrelas da década de 1950; estrela das artes marciais; ex-dirigente sindicalista é a nova estrela do partido |
| reference | DPLP | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 17 (ID: 34343) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Romanian | |
| lexeme | stea | |
| meaning 1 | star | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | celebrity | |
| reference | MDA2 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 18 (ID: 6749) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Russian | |
| lexeme | звезда (zvezda) | |
| meaning 1 | star | Звезды на небе stars in the sky |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | star | звезды эстрады и кино the stars of pop music andd cinema |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 19 (ID: 21038) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Serbian | |
| lexeme | звезда (zvezda) | |
| meaning 1 | star | беле звезде, жуте звезде white stars, yellow stars |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | celebrity | филмска звезда, фудбалска звезда film star, football star |
| reference | Vujanitsh et al. 2007: 427 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 20 (ID: 6845) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Spanish | |
| lexeme | estrella | |
| meaning 1 | star | estrella polar Polar Star |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | star | estrella de cine cinema star |
| reference | Narumov 1995: 354 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 21 (ID: 11455) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Swedish | |
| lexeme | stjärna | |
| meaning 1 | star | solen är vår närmaste stjärna the Sun is the star that is the closest to us |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | celebrity | filmstjärna movie star |
| reference | SAO | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 22 (ID: 2907) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Thai | |
| lexeme | dā-rā (ดารา) | |
| meaning 1 | (elegant, literary, poetic) star | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | celebrity, star | |
| reference | Morev 1964 SEAlang Thai | |
| comment | In the first meaing it has been borrowed from Pali | |
| NEW Realization 23 (ID: 32537) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Thai | |
| lexeme | daao (ดาว) | |
| meaning 1 | star | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | celebrity | |
| reference | SEAlang Thai | |
| comment | From Proto-Tai *t.naːwᴬ. |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 24 (ID: 7226) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Turkish | |
| lexeme | yıldız | |
| meaning 1 | star | beşinci kadirden yıldız a star fo the fifth magnitude |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | celebrity | sinema yıldızı cinema star |
| reference | Baskakov 1977: 927 | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 25 (ID: 20875) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Waray | |
| lexeme | bitúon | |
| meaning 1 | star | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | person or distinguished eminence especially in the theatrical procession | |
| reference | SEAlang Waray | |
| comment | ||
All languages have semantic loans from English, where a similar meaning has been recorded since the early 19th century. A possible exception is Chinese; cf. examples like xīng jiāng (星将) 'brilliant commander' lit. 'star general'.