a physical threshold · a figurative threshold, such as a limit
çekim: çoğul drempels
eş: stofdorpel
köken: From Middle Dutch drempel, dreppel, drumpel, a word of uncertain origin found in the northern dialects, perhaps related to dorsen (“to thresh”).
köken: From Old Swedish þriskulde, from Old Norse þreskǫldr, þreskjǫldr, þrepskjǫldr, from Proto-Germanic *þreskwaþluz. Cognates include Danish tærskel, Norwegian Bokmål terskel, Middle Low German dreskelef, English threshold.
köken: Borrowed from Kazakh Астана (Astana), from Classical Persian آسْتَانَه (āstāna, “a threshold”), from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾstʾnk' /āstānag/).
threshold, doorsill, sill, doorstep (lowermost part of a doorway that one crosses to enter) · ridge (an angular, often rectangular, projection that in some way serves a purpose similar to that of a threshold) · threshold (limit, boundary or point important for determining whether something happens or not)
çekim: çoğul kynnykset · tamlayan kynnyksen
köken: From Proto-Finnic *kündüs (compare Estonian künnis, Ingrian kynnys, Karelian kynnyš, Veps künduz, Votic čünnüz), possibly an old derivation from kynsi (“(finger)nail”) (compare Erzya кенкш (kenkš, “door”), possibly from кенже (kenže, “(finger)nail”), which is akin to kynsi).
köken: Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic прагъ (pragŭ), from Proto-Slavic *porgъ (“threshold”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *parˀgas, from Proto-Indo-European *porg-o-. Compare Macedonian праг (prag), Serbo-Croatian prȁg.