colander

English

A typical household colander

Alternative forms

• cullender

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

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑləndəɹ/

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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

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: colador (ca) m
• 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)
• Hungarian: szűrő (hu), tésztaszűrő (hu)
• Icelandic: dörslag n
• Indonesian: penapis (id)
• Irish: síothlaí 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
• 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
• 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