muddy, turbid, opaque
→
suspicious, questionable
5 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Croatian | |
| lexeme | mutan | |
| meaning 1 | hazy, turbid, opaque | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | suspicious, questionable | mutan čovjek, mutni poslovi suspicious man, suspicious dealings |
| reference | HJP | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | French | |
| lexeme | louche | |
| meaning 1 | vague, turbid, hazy | Ce vin est louche; ciel louche This wine is not clear, cloudy skies |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | bad; suspicious, troubling | un type louche; une histoire louche an odd guy, an odd story |
| reference | Larousse online | |
| comment | The first meaning of the adjective is 'squint-eyed'. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Hungarian | |
| lexeme | homályos | |
| meaning 1 | blurry | Homályos kép. Látása homályossá vált. Blurry image. His/her vision became blurry. |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | suspicious, questionable | Homályos múlt, homályos ügy Suspicious past, a suspicious affair |
| reference | MEK 1978 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Russian | |
| lexeme | мутный | |
| meaning 1 | hazy, turbid, opaque | Пруд был еще не велик и мутен... А. Кожевников, Живая вода The pond was yet small and turbid... |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | suspicious, questionable | Бизнес у него какой-то мутный был в начале перестройки. [Наталья Харпалёва. Второй срок (2015)] He had some suspicious business in the beginning of the perestroika. |
| reference | MAS NRC | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Serbian | |
| lexeme | мутан (mutan) | |
| meaning 1 | hazy, turbid, opaque | Voda mutna na površini nije nas zabrinjavala jer smo znali da je vidljivost u dubljim slojevima obično jako dobra. The cloudy water on the surface did not worry us because we knew that the visibility in the deeper layers is usually very good. |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | suspicious, questionable | Kjuzak će igrati mutnog advokata koji pokušava da prevari svoje mafijaške šefove za novac. Cusack will play a suspicious lawyer who tries to con his mob bosses out of money. |
| reference | Vujanitsh et al. 2007: 744 CLARIN.SI | |
| comment | ||