colander

A typical household colander

English

Etymology

Middle English colyndore and Old Provençal colador (“strainer”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌləndər/, /ˈkɑləndər/

• Audio (UK)

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Noun

colander (plural colanders)

1. A bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta.

Hypernyms

• strainer

Translations

a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta

• Arabic: مِصْفَاة f
• Armenian: քամոց (kʿamocʿ)
• Azeri: süzgəc (az)
• Bulgarian: решето n (rešeto), гевгир m (gevgir)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 濾器, 滤器 (zh) (lǜqì), 漉鍋, 漉锅 (lùguō), 漏勺 (zh) (lòusháo)

• Czech: cedník (cs) m, řešeto n
• Dutch: vergiet (nl) n
• Finnish: siivilä (fi), lävikkö (fi)
• French: passoire (fr) f
• Georgian: თუშფალანგი (t’ušp’alangi)
• German: Sieb (de) m, Seiher m, Durchschlag (de) m
• Greek: σουρωτήρι (el) n (sourotíri)
• Icelandic: dörslag n
• Indonesian: penapis (id)

• Italian: colino m
• Japanese: コランダー (korandā), 水切りボール (mizukiri-bōru)
• Jèrriais: coul'rêsse f
• Maori: kumete tātari, tātari
• Norwegian: dørslag n
• Persian: آبکش (fa) (âbkeš)
• Portuguese: escorredor m
• Romanian: strecurătoare (ro) f
• Russian: дуршлаг (ru) m (duršlág)
• Scottish Gaelic: sìoltachan m
• Serbo-Croatian: cjedilo n
• Spanish: colador (es) m, escurridor (es) m
• Swedish: durkslag (sv) n
• Turkish: süzgeç (tr), kevgir (tr)

External links

• Colander on Wikipedia.Wikipedia