parapet (a piece of wood, generally at chest height, that makes up the inside of a window and is used as support by people leaning against it) · parapet (land mass that protects the defender from frontal fire and allows the firing of their weapon to occur) · balustrade, guardrail (protection at the edge of piers, bridges, terraces, etc.)
çekim: çoğul parapeitos
eş: peitoril
köken: Compound of parar + peito or borrowed from Italian parapetto.
Ela estava sentada no parapeito da janela do quarto [...]
windowsill (a flat surface protruding from the base of a window frame) · space, part of the wall, under a window
çekim: çoğul palodzes · tamlayan palodzes
köken: Apparently a variant of paloda (“lintel”) (q.v.), ultimately from the same source as the verb lodāt (“to crawl, to creep”), presumably because, since doors were originally low, one had to "crawl" under their lintels to enter the house.