WotD: doorknob

[muckefuck]

1. der Türknauf
2. de deurknop
3. la perilla
4. la maneta rodona giratòria
5. le bouton de porte, la clanche
6. an murlán dorais
7. y bwlyn drws
8. klamka
9. 문의 손잡이
10. 門把(手 ménbǎ(shǒu)
11. ドアノブ

Notes: This is a word I never learned when I was in Germany because I never needed it: All the doors there had Türklinken. And this, in turn, was a term I never knew the English for because I hardly need to talk about them here. But now, thanks to The Economist, I know that the term of the trade is apparently "levered doorhandle". I guess if they ever become more common here, we'll come up with something similar. It seems doorknobs are comparably rare in Catalonia given that the trade-jargoniness is the only unambiguous term I could find. Amusingly, clanche (found in east-central France) is cognate with Klinke.

Comments

[tyrannio.livejournal.com]

They don't look anything like the perilla growing by mollpeartree and princeofcairo: is it a false friend?

Not to mention the perilla here.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

According to the OED, the genus name is "of unknown origin".

Both Spanish perillas, on the other hand, share an origin as diminutives of pera "pear". (I suppose a goatee is like an inverted pear?)