woman
→
Aloe vera (plant)
4 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 | |
| 5025 | daughter | → | Aloe vera (plant) | Open |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Sanskrit | |
| lexeme | vīrā | |
| meaning 1 | A woman with a husband and a son living | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | Aloe vera (plant) | |
| reference | Apte: 1487 | |
| comment | Meanings: also "heroic", "full of heroism", "wife of a hero". | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Tamil | |
| lexeme | peṇ | |
| meaning 1 | woman | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | Aloe vera (plant) | |
| reference | Tamil lexicon: 2856 | |
| comment | Meaning 1: main word for "woman" | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Tamil | |
| lexeme | kaṉṉi | |
| meaning 1 | woman | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | Aloe vera (plant) | |
| reference | Winslow Tamil: 275 | |
| comment | Meaning 2: "The wild or Socotrine aloe, an evergreen". Another meaning: "a young unmarried woman, a virgin, a maiden.". | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Tamil | |
| lexeme 1 | peṇ | |
| lexeme 2 | iḷampeṇ | |
| meaning 1 | woman | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | Aloe vera (plant) | |
| reference | Tamil lexicon: 357 | |
| comment | Derivation: iḷampeṇ < iḷam "youth, young" + peṇ "woman" | |