pineapple
→
hand grenade
3 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Brazilian Portuguese | |
| Lexeme | abacaxi | |
| Meaning 1 | pineapple | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | (military slang) hand grenade | |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | From Tupi iwaka'ti 'pineapple' | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Cantonese Chinese | |
| Lexeme | bo1 lo4 / bo1 lo3* (菠蘿) | |
| Meaning 1 | pineapple | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | (Hong Kong Cantonese) hand grenade; explosive | |
| Reference | English Wiktionary | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | English | |
| Lexeme | pineapple | |
| Meaning 1 | tropical plant, Ananas comosus | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | hand grenade | |
| Reference | OED | |
| Comment | ||