thresh

English

Etymology

From Middle English thresshen, threshen, threschen, from Old English þrescan, from Proto-Germanic *þreskaną.

Compare West Frisian terskje, Dutch dorsen, Low German dörschen, German dreschen, Danish tærske, Swedish tröska, Yiddish דרעשן (dreshn). Doublet of thrash.

Pronunciation

• enPR: thrĕsh, IPA^(key): /θɹɛʃ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛʃ

Verb

thresh (third-person singular simple present threshes, present participle threshing, simple past and past participle threshed)

1. (transitive, agriculture) To separate the grain from the straw or husks (chaff) by mechanical beating, with a flail or machinery.
2. (transitive, literary) To beat soundly, usually with some tool such as a stick or whip; to drub.
3. (intransitive, literary) To violently toss the limbs about.
   • 1967, J. A. Baker, The Peregrine, page 41:

     The jay fell all lopsidedly and threshing, as though it were having a fit. The ground killed it.

Synonyms

• thrash

Derived terms

• threshel
• thresher
• thresherman
• threshing
• threshold

Translations

to separate the grain from the straw or husks

• Afrikaans: dors
• Amharic: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: دَرَسَ (ar) (darasa)
• Armenian: կալսել (hy) (kalsel)
• Aromanian: triyir
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: вършея (bg) (vǎršeja)
• Catalan: trillar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 打穀／打谷 (zh) (dǎgǔ), 打谷 (zh) (dǎgǔ), 脫粒／脱粒 (zh) (tuōlì), 脱粒 (zh) (tuōlì)

• Czech: please add this translation if you can
• Danish: tærske
• Dutch: dorsen (nl)
• Emilian: bāter
• Esperanto: draŝi (eo)
• Faroese: treskja
• Finnish: puida (fi)
• French: battre (fr), fouler (fr)
• Galician: mallar (gl), trillar (gl)
• Georgian: დაბეგვა (dabegva)
• German: dreschen (de)
• Greek: αλωνίζω (el) (alonízo)
• Greenlandic: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: דש (he) (dash)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: csépel (hu)
• Icelandic: þreskja (is)
• Italian: trebbiare (it)
• Japanese: 脱穀する (ja) (だっこくする, dakkoku suru)
• Korean: 뒹굴다 (ko) (dwinggulda), 도리깨질하다 (dorikkaejilhada)
• Latgalian: kuļt
• Latin: trituro
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• Latvian: kult
• Luxembourgish: dreschen (lb)
• Macedonian: врши (vrši)
• Maltese: derra
• Norman: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: treske (no)

  Nynorsk: treske, treskje

• Old Norse: þreskja
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: młócić (pl)
• Portuguese: malhar (pt), espalhar (pt), debulhar (pt)
• Quechua: t'ustuy
• Romanian: treiera (ro)
• Russian: молоти́ть (ru) (molotítʹ)
• Scots: please add this translation if you can
• Scottish Gaelic: buail
• Serbo-Croatian: please add this translation if you can
• Slovak: mlátiť
• Slovene: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: trillar (es), desgranar (es), apalear (es), azotar (es)
• Swahili: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: tröska (sv)
• Tagalog: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: молоти́ти (molotýty)
• Urdu: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: đập (vi)
• Welsh: dyrnu (cy)
• Yiddish: דרעשן (dreshn)
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can