to emit smell
→
to indicate something bad
10 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| NEW Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Croatian | |
| lexeme | mirisati | |
| meaning 1 | to emit smell | miriše po mošusu it smells like musk |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to indicate something bad | to mi miriše na prevaru that smells like a scam to me |
| reference | HJP | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | reek | |
| meaning 1 | to have or give off a strong, unpleasant smell | You reek of perfume. |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to be evidently associated with something unpleasant | The boss appointing his nephew as a director reeks of nepotism. |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | to stink | |
| meaning 1 | to have a strong bad smell | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to give an impression of dishonesty, untruth, or sin | Something stinks about the politician's excuses. |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Finnish | |
| lexeme | haiskahtaa | |
| meaning 1 | to smell foul, stink | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (figuratively) to appear suspicious; often may be translated into English using the idiom smell a rat | Hänestä juttu alkoi haiskahtaa. She began to smell a rat. |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Hungarian | |
| lexeme | bűzlik | |
| meaning 1 | to have or give off a strong, unpleasant smell | Orrfacsaróan bűzlik a temetetlen dög. The unburied carrion stinks. |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to indicate something bad | Valami bűzlik Dániában Valami bűzlik Dániában (=There's something wrong, scandal is expected) |
| reference | MEK 1978 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Russian | |
| lexeme | пахнуть | |
| meaning 1 | to have smell | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to have signs or traits of smth., to testify to the possibility of smth. | Пахнуть официозностью, казёнщиной, лживостью. Это пахнет тюрьмой. Дело пахнет скандалом. Pakhnut' ofitsioznost'yu, kazonshchinoy, lzhivost'yu. Eto pakhnet tyur'moy. Delo pakhnet skandalom. 89 / 5 000 Результаты перевода Smell of officialdom, bureaucracy, deceit. It smells like prison. The case reeks of scandal. |
| reference | BTS | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Serbian | |
| lexeme | смрдети (smrdeti) | |
| meaning 1 | to smell bad | смрдети на зној to stink of sweat |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to indicate something bad | смрдети на издају, смрдети на рат to reek of treason, to reek of war |
| reference | Vujanitsh et al. 2007: 1247 | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 8 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Serbian | |
| lexeme | мирисати (mirisati) | |
| meaning 1 | to emit smell | Ружа мирише. Соба мирише на просуто вино и зифт. The rose smells. The room smells of spilled wine and pitch. |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to indicate something bad | мирисати на кризу (рат итд.) to smell like a crisis (war etc.) |
| reference | Vujanitsh et al. 2007: 713 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 9 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Swedish | |
| lexeme | stinka | |
| meaning 1 | to smell bad; to stink, reek | Hon glödde av iver och stank av eau de cologne. (1926, Hjalmar Bergman, Farmor och Vår Herre) She glowed with ardour and reeked of cologne. |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to give impression of foul play or dishonesty | Den fortsatta granskningen av partiet visar att det fortfarande stinker. (2000, Claes Arvidsson, Svenska Dagbladet - editor's column) The follow-up examination of the party shows that it still stinks. |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 10 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Turkish | |
| lexeme | kokmak | |
| meaning 1 | to have smell; to have a bad smell; stink, reek | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to show signs of, reek of, be redolent with | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||