back (body part) / spine, backbone
→
mountain ridge
27 realizations
Multi-area
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 | |
| 533 | back (body part) | → | plateau | Open |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 (ID: 4715) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Ancient Greek | |
| lexeme | ῥάχις | |
| meaning 1 | (anatomy) spine or backbone | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | ridge of a hill or mountain | |
| reference | LSJ: 1566 | |
| comment | Cf. rachia 'rocky shore, shore rock, surf' (Murzaev 1974: 132). | |
| NEW Realization 4 (ID: 46122) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Classical Arabic | |
| lexeme | ظَهْر ḏ̣ahr- | |
| meaning 1 | back (body part) | ˀanti ˁalayya ka-ḏ̣ahr-i ˀummī (a husband to his wife in the case of divorce:) You are to me like the back of my mother (i.e. he is not to copulate with her) |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | mountain ridge, the highest part of a mountain | hājat ḏ̣awāhir-u l-ˀarḍ-i The herbs of the elevated tracts of land dried up. |
| reference | Lane: 1926-1930 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 22 (ID: 5616) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Russian | |
| lexeme | хребет (hrebet) | |
| meaning 1 | spine | спинной хребет spine, vertebral column |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | range (of mountains) | горный хребет mountain range |
| reference | MAS | |
| comment | (Murzaev 1974: 132) | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 25 (ID: 3215) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Tigrinya | |
| lexeme | zəban | |
| meaning 1 | back (of the body) | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | ridge, plateau | |
| reference | TED: 1990 | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 26 (ID: 42273) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Turkish | |
| lexeme | sırt | |
| meaning 1 | back (body part) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | mountain ridge | |
| reference | Baskakov 1977: 774 | |
| comment | ||
Ср. также англ. back 'спина'. В сочетании со словами, обозначающими холмы и горы, означает верхнюю поверхность. Ср. We now rambled about on the broad back of the hill 'Теперь мы бродили по широкой вершине холма' (N. Hawthorne по OED).