- and ²bear).
According to the
Oxford English Dictionary, the
three most
polysemous words in
English are run, put, and set, in that order. A
polyseme is a...
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unrelated in origin, such as
skate (glide on ice) and
skate (the fish), and
polysemous homonyms, or polysemes,
which have a
shared origin, such as
mouth (of...
- Kui (Chinese: 夔; pinyin: kuí; Wade–Giles: k'uei) is a
polysemous figure in
ancient Chinese mythology.
classic texts use this name for the
legendary musician...
-
characters are
divided into
polyphonic monosemous characters and
polyphonic polysemous characters. A
polyphonic monosemous character (多音同義字 or 異讀字) has two or...
- mawla" (Arabic: من كنت مولاه فهذا على مولاه).
Mawla (Arabic: مولاه) is a
polysemous Arabic word,
which can mean 'patron', 'master', 'leader', or 'friend'...
-
sovereignty of the land is
perpetuated in righteousness". Pono is a
notably polysemous term. Mary
Kawena Pukui's and
Samuel Hoyt Elbert's
Hawaiian dictionary...
-
Combined with
another graphic element, a
raised fist is used to
convey polysemous gestures and
opposing forces.
Depending on the
elements combined, the...
- Mawlā (Arabic: مَوْلَى,
plural mawālī مَوَالِي), is a
polysemous Arabic word,
whose meaning varied in
different periods and contexts.
Before the Islamic...
- "Whoever I am his mawla, this Ali is his mawla." The
interpretation of the
polysemous Arabic word
mawla is disputed: For Shia Muslims,
Muhammad thus invested...
- entities.
Literally meaning 'vapor', 'air', or 'breath', the word qi is
polysemous,
often translated as 'vital energy', 'vital force', 'material energy'...
