womb, uterus
→
relative (n.)
1 realization
Related shifts
ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
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Type | Polysemy | |
Language | Classical Arabic | |
Lexeme | raḥim- | |
Meaning 1 | womb | |
Direction | → | |
Meaning 2 | relationship, nearness of kin | ḏū r-raḥim-I ‘the possessor of relationship’; ḏū raḥim-in maḥrim-in ‘a relation whom it is unlawful to marry’ |
Reference | ||
Comment | (Lane 1056), from Proto-Semitic *raḥ(i)m-, *riḥm- 'womb', cf. SED I No. 231). |