pomegranate
→
hand grenade
6 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Armenian | |
| Lexeme 1 | nuṙ (նուռ) | |
| Lexeme 2 | nṙnak (նռնակ) | |
| Meaning 1 | pomegranate | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | hand grenade | |
| Reference | Galstjan 1984 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | English | |
| Lexeme | grenade | |
| Meaning 1 | (obsolete) pomegranate | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | hand grenade | |
| Reference | OED | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | French | |
| Lexeme | grenade | |
| Meaning 1 | pomegranate | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | hand grenade | |
| Reference | CNRTL | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Italian | |
| Lexeme | granata | |
| Meaning 1 | pomegranate | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | hand grenade | |
| Reference | Vocabolario Treccani | |
| Comment | ||
| NEW Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Mandarin Chinese | |
| Lexeme 1 | liú (榴) | |
| Lexeme 2 | liúdàn (榴彈 / 榴弹) | |
| Meaning 1 | pomegranate | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | hand grenade | |
| Reference | BKRS | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Spanish | |
| Lexeme | granada | |
| Meaning 1 | pomegranate | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | hand grenade | |
| Reference | DRAE | |
| Comment | ||
The bomb is reminiscent of the many-seeded fruit in size and shape. Its first use in English dates from the 1590s
Seven ceramic hand grenades of the 17th Century found 1983 in the moat of Ingolstadt Germany. Stadtmuseum Ingolstadt Wikimedia Commons / Bullenwächter