rude, impolite → buttock 1 realization Unique
NEW Realization 1
type Polysemy
language Turkish
lexeme kaba
meaning 1 rude, impolite, vulgar, primitive

kaba adam


rude man
direction →
meaning 2 buttock




reference Baskakov 1977: 490
comment

There is also a synonim for buttocks 'kaba et' lit. 'rude (or large?) meat' and it might be the motivation for this semantic shift. However, the shift is not completely reliable, because kaba means also "large" and it is not clear which of the meaning was the source for the shift.

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