thresh

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) 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/
• Rhymes: -ɛʃ

Verb

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.

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: please add this translation if you can
• 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: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: dorsen (nl)
• Emilian: bāter
• Esperanto: draŝi (eo)
• Faroese: treskja
• Finnish: puida (fi)
• French: battre (fr)
• Galician: mallar (gl), trillar (gl)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: dreschen (de)
• Greek: αλωνίζω (alonízo)
• Greenlandic: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: csépel (hu)
• Icelandic: þreskja (is)
• Italian: trebbiare (it)
• Japanese: 脱穀する (だっこくする, dakkoku suru)
• Korean: 뒹굴다 (ko) (dwinggulda), 도리깨질하다 (dorikkaejilhada)
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• Latgalian: kuļt
• Latin: trituro
• Latvian: kult
• Luxembourgish: dreschen
• Macedonian: врши (vrši)
• Norman: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: treske (no)
• 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: please add this translation if you can
• Urdu: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: đập (vi)
• Yiddish: דרעשן (dreshn)
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can