to have smell
→
to indicate something bad
6 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||