forehead
→
happiness, luck
1 realization
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Amharic | |
| lexeme | gənbar, gəmbar | |
| meaning 1 | forehead, brow | gənbar ḳʷaṭṭärä 'to frown' (to knot one's brow) |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | fortune, luck | gənbar yälelläw 'unlucky, unfortunate' (lit. who has no forehead); gəmbaru bərtu näw 'he is very lucky' (lit. his forehead is strong) |
| reference | ||
| comment | (K 2003) | |