ladle

English

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A ladle

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA: /ˈleɪ.dəl/, SAMPA: /"leId@l/
• Rhymes: -eɪdəl

Etymology

From Middle English ladel, from Old English hlædel

Noun

ladle (plural ladles)

1. A deep-bowled spoon with a long, usually curved, handle.
2. A container used in a foundry to transport and pour out molten metal

Synonyms

• (deep-bowled spoon): dipper

Derived terms

• frying ladle

Translations

deep-bowled spoon with a long, usually curved, handle

Asturian: garfiella (ast) f. Bosnian: kutlača (bs) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 杓子 (zh) (sháozi), 瓢 (zh) (piáo) Chinese Characters: 勺 (sháo) Crimean Tatar: çömüç Croatian: kuhača (hr) f. Czech: naběračka (cs) f. Dutch: (Belgium) pollepel (nl) m., (Netherlands) opscheplepel (nl) m., juslepel (nl) m. Finnish: kauha (fi) French: louche (fr) f. cuillère à pot (fr), poche (fr), pochon (fr) German: Schöpflöffel (de) m., Schöpfkelle (de) f. Greek: κουτάλα (el) f. Icelandic: ausa (is) f. Italian: mestolo (it) m. Japanese: お玉杓子 (ja) (おたまじゃくし, otamajakushi), お玉 (ja) (おたま, otama) Macedonian: црпка (mk) (c'rpka) f., црпалка (mk) (c'rpalka) f., кутлача (mk) (kútlača) f.

Polish: chochla (pl) f. Portuguese: concha (pt) f. Romanian: polonic (ro) n. Russian: половник (ru) (polóvnik) m., черпак (ru) (čerpák) m., ковш (ru) (kovš) m., поварёшка (ru) (povarjóška) f. Scottish Gaelic: ladar (gd) m. Serbian: сусак (sr) (susak) m. Cyrillic: кутлача (sr) f., сипача f. Roman: kutlača (sr) f., sipača f. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: паљак (sh) (paljak) m. Latin: paljak (sh) m. Sicilian: cuppinu m. Slovak: naberačka f. Spanish: cucharón (es) m. Swedish: slev (sv), skopa (sv)

Verb

ladle (third-person singular simple present ladles, present participle ladling, simple past and past participle ladled)

1. (transitive) to serve something with a ladle

Translations

serve with a ladle

Dutch: opscheppen (nl), inscheppen (nl), opdienen (nl) Icelandic: ausa (is) Macedonian: црпи (mk) (c'rpi), нацрпува (mk) (nac'rpuva)

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