thresh

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From Middle English thrasshen, thresche, threschen, threschyn, threshen, thresshen, tressyn, þreisshe, þresshe, from Old English þerscan, þrexan, from Proto-Germanic *þreskaną (“to thresh; to tread”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh1- (“to rub, turn; to drill, pierce”). Doublet of thrash. Cognates Cognate with Dutch dorsen (“to thresh; to thrash”), German and Luxembourgish dreschen (“to thresh; to thrash”), Yiddish דרעשן (dreshn, “to thresh”), Danish tærske (“to thresh”), Faroese treskja (“to thresh”), Icelandic þreskja (“to thresh”), Norwegian Nynorsk treska, treske, treskja, treskje (“to thrash”), Swedish tröska (“to thresh”), Gothic 𐌸𐍂𐌹𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌽 (þriskan, “to thresh”), Finnish rehkiä (“to drudge; to toil”); also Welsh taradr (“auger, wimble; awl, borer; drill”), Latin terō (“to rub or triturate; to wear away or wear out, consume; to tread; to press with a mill; to pass, spend”), Greek τρίβω (trívo, “to grate; to rub”), Albanian tjerr (“to spin”), Belarusian це́рці (cjérci, “to rub; to polish; to pinch; to grind”), Bulgarian три́я (tríja, “to rub; to chafe; to grind”), Czech třít (“to rub; to spawn”), Polish tarć, treć, trzeć, trzyć (“to rub; to shred; to cut; to chafe; to crush; to spawn”), Russian тере́ть (terétʹ, “to rub; to polish; to grind”), Serbo-Croatian тр̏ти, tȑti (“to rub; to cause friction; to scour; to break, crush”), Slovak trieť (“to rub”), Slovene treti (“to crack open; to rub”), Ukrainian те́рти (térty, “to rub; to scrub”), Armenian թուր (tʻur, “sword”), Sogdian ܕܣܦܪܛܪ (dsprtr, “hand towel”), Hittite 𒋻𒌑𒍣 (tar-ú-zi, “to perform a round dance, to dance in twisting manner”), Tocharian A and Tocharian B tärk- (“to allow, let; to let go”), Sanskrit तर्कु (tarku, “spindle”).

70 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: dors — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Albanian: shij — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Amharic: ወቃ (wäḳa) — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Arabic: دَرَسَ (darasa) — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Armenian: կալսել (kalsel) — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Aromanian: triyir — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Basque: eultzitu — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Bulgarian: вършея (vǎršeja) — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Catalan: trillar — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Chinese Mandarin: 打穀 /打谷 (dǎgǔ) — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Chinese Mandarin: 脫粒 /脱粒 (tuōlì) — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Czech: mlátit — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Danish: tærske — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Dutch: dorsen — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Emilian: bāter — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Esperanto: draŝi — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Faroese: treskja — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Finnish: puida — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• French: battre — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• French: fouler — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Galician: mallar — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Galician: trillar — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Georgian: დაბეგვა (dabegva) — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• German: dreschen — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Greek: αλωνίζω (alonízo) — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Hebrew: דש (dash) — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Hindi: गाहना (gāhnā) — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Hungarian: csépel — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Icelandic: þreskja — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Ido: drashar — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Ingrian: tappaa — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Italian: trebbiare — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Japanese: 脱穀する (dakkoku suru) — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Korean: 뒹굴다 (dwinggulda) — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Korean: 도리깨질하다 (dorikkaejilhada) — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Lao: ສົງເຂົ້າ — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Latgalian: kuļt — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Latin: trituro — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Latvian: kult — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Luxembourgish: dreschen — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Macedonian: врши (vrši) — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Maltese: derra — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Megleno-Romanian: trăir — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Megleno-Romanian: trighir — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Norwegian Bokmål: treske — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Norwegian Nynorsk: treske — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Norwegian Nynorsk: treskje — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Old Norse: þreskja — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Polish: młócić — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Portuguese: malhar — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Portuguese: espalhar — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Portuguese: debulhar — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Quechua: t'ustuy — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Romanian: treiera — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Russian: молоти́ть (molotítʹ) — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Scottish Gaelic: buail — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Slovak: mlátiť — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Spanish: trillar — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Spanish: desgranar — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Spanish: apalear — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Spanish: azotar — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Swedish: tröska — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Turkish: harman çevirmek — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Turkish: harmanlamak — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Ukrainian: молоти́ти (molotýty) — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Unami: paitehike — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Vietnamese: đập — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Volapük: cepön — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Welsh: dyrnu — to separate the grain from the straw or husks
• Yiddish: דרעשן (dreshn) — to separate the grain from the straw or husks