rude, impolite
→
buttock
1 realization
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| 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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