chinois

See also: Chinois

English

A chinois

Alternative forms

• chinoise

Etymology

Borrowed from French chinois

Noun

chinois (plural chinoises)

1. (cooking) A fine-meshed conical strainer

Coordinate terms

• food mill
• tamis

Translations

fine-meshed conical strainer

• Catalan: xinès (ca) m, colador xinès m

  Valencian: xinés (ca) m, colador xinés m

• French: chinois (fr) m
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• Japanese: シノワ (shinowa)
• Spanish: chino (es) m, colador chino m

See also

• Chinoise on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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French

Etymology

Chine (“China”) +‎ -ois (“-ese”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃi.nwa/

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Noun

chinois m (uncountable)

1. Chinese (language)
2. Greek (something difficult to understand)

Adjective

chinois (feminine chinoise, masculine plural chinois, feminine plural chinoises)

1. Chinese (relating to China)

Further reading

• “chinois”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• chiions