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Polysemy

Richards and Schmidt (2002, p.406) define Polysemy as “word having two or more closely related meanings.” One word having two distinct but related meaning is polysemy.

For example:

شاندار یہ عمارت بہت شاندار ہے

شاندار آج کھلاڑیوں نے بہت شاندار کھیل کھیلا۔

In this example, in first sentence the word is used in terms of “beauty/elegant”, while the same word in the second sentence is used by the native speakers in terms of “good”.

چلو = چلو ٹھیک ہے

چلو = چلو لاہور چلتے ہیں۔

Here in this example the first sentence is used by the people of Urdu language to say “it’s fine”, while in the second sentence the same word is used to say “let’s go”.