colander

English

A typical household colander

Alternative forms

• cullender
• collinder (misspelling)

Etymology

From Middle English colyndore, coloundour, colonur, variants of Middle English culdor, culdore, culatre, ultimately from Latin cōlātōrium, from Latin cōlum. Cognates include Italian colino and Spanish colador.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒlɪndə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑləndəɹ/, /ˈkɔləndəɹ/

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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: sieve, sile, strainer

Derived terms

• sea colander

Related terms

• coulee
• percolate

Translations

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

• Arabic: مِصْفَاة‎ f (miṣfāh)
• Armenian: քամոց (hy) (kʿamocʿ), քամիչ (hy) (kʿamičʿ)
• Azerbaijani: süzgəc (az), kəfgir (az)
• Belarusian: друшля́к m (drušlják)
• Bulgarian: решето n (rešeto), гевгир m (gevgir)
• Catalan: escorredora (ca) f
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: cedník (cs) m, řešeto (cs) n
• Danish: dørslag n
• Dutch: vergiet (nl) n, verzijp (nl) n
• Finnish: siivilä (fi), lävikkö (fi)
• French: passoire (fr) f
• Georgian: თუშფალანგი (tušpalangi)
• German: Sieb (de) m, Küchensieb m, Abtropfsieb m, Seiher (de) m (regional), Durchschlag (de) m (regional)

  Alemannic German: Fättere f

• Greek: σουρωτήρι (el) n (sourotíri), τρυπητό (el) n (trypitó)
• Hindi: कोलंडर (kolaṇḍar)
• Hungarian: szűrő (hu), tésztaszűrő (hu)
• Icelandic: sigti n, dörslag n
• Indonesian: penapis (id)
• Irish: síothlán m
• Italian: colino (it) m, colapasta m, colabrodo (it) m
• Japanese: コランダー (korandā), 水切りボール (みずきりボール, mizukiri bōru)
• Korean: 소쿠리 (sokuri)

• Latin: cōlum n
• Malay: penapis
• Maori: kumete tātari, tātari
• Norman: coul'rêsse f
• Norwegian: dørslag (no) n
• Persian: آبکش‎ (fa) (âbkeš)
• Plautdietsch: Säw n, Derchschlach m
• Polish: durszlak (pl) m, cedzak (pl) m
• Portuguese: escorredor m, passador (pt) m, coador (pt) m
• Romanian: strecurătoare (ro) f
• Russian: дуршла́г (ru) m (duršlág)
• Scottish Gaelic: sìoltachan m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: цедило n, цједило n, ђевђир m

  Roman: cedilo (sh) n, cjedilo (sh) n, đevđir (sh) m,

• Sicilian: scolapasta f
• Slovak: cedák m, cedidlo n
• Slovene: cedilo n
• Spanish: colador (es) m, escurridor (es) m, coladero m
• Swedish: durkslag (sv) n
• Tibetan: ཚག (tshag)
• Turkish: süzgeç (tr), kevgir (tr)
• Ukrainian: друшля́к m (drušlják)
• Uzbek: chovli (uz)
• Vietnamese: giá lọc
• Welsh: hidlwr m, colandr m, hidl (cy) f

Further reading

• colander on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• CONELRAD, Calderon