elephant
→
bishop (chess)
4 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Middle Persian (Pahlavi) | |
| Lexeme | pyl | |
| Meaning 1 | elephant | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | bishop (chess) | |
| Reference | MacKenzie 1971: 68 | |
| Comment | Also Farsi pil, borrowed to Arabic fīl, Arabic word re-borrowed to Farsi fil. From Farsi and/or Arabic borrowed to Armenian փիղ (pʿił), Catalan alfil, Galician alfil, Spanish alfil, arpil, Turkish fil, Turkmen pil, Urdu fīl, Uyghur pil, Uzbek fil, Tagalog alpil, arpil (from Spanish) | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Russian | |
| Lexeme | слон | |
| Meaning 1 | elephant | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | bishop (chess) | |
| Reference | MAS | |
| Comment | Ukrainian слон | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Turkish | |
| Lexeme | fil | |
| Meaning 1 | elephant | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | bishop (chess) | |
| Reference | Baskakov 1977: 302 | |
| Comment | ||
| NEW Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Ukrainian | |
| Lexeme | слон | |
| Meaning 1 | elephant | Індійський слон.. досягав 3 м висоти і важить понад 4 т. Це мешканець густих, тінистих і вологих заростей тропічного лісу |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | bishop (chess) | Слон ходить і бере фігури противника, пересуваючись по діагоналях в усякий бік на будь-яку кількість полів (Перша книга шахіста, 1952) |
| Reference | SUM-11: 9, 375 | |
| Comment | ||