to be awake
→
ambush
1 realization
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Geez | |
| Lexeme | tagha | |
| Meaning 1 | to be awake, sleepless | tagāhku wa-konku kama ʕof bāḥtāwi wəsta nāḥs ‘I was vigilant and became as a lonely bird on a roof’ (Ps. 101:8) |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to lie in ambush | namr tagha lāʕla ʔahgurikəmu ‘a leopard watched (lay in ambush upon) your cities’ (Jer. 5:6) |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | (LLA 571) | |