shoulder pole
→
measure of volume
2 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Mandarin Chinese | |
| Lexeme | dàn (擔, 担) | |
| Meaning 1 | shoulder pole | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | picul, a traditional Chinese unit of weight previously around 60 kg and now standardized to 50 kg | |
| Reference | BKRS | |
| Comment | Also a classifier for things carried on a shoulder pole | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Swahili | |
| Lexeme | maarasi | |
| Meaning 1 | shoulder pole | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | measure for liquids | |
| Reference | Polikanov | |
| Comment | 1 maarasi = 2 debe = 36 liters | |