grater

See also: gråter

English

A grater.

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French grateor. See grate.

Pronunciation

• enPR: grāt'ə, IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹeɪtə/
• enPR: grāt'ər, IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹeɪtɚ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
• Homophone: greater

Noun

grater (plural graters)

1. a tool with which one grates, especially cheese, to facilitate getting small particles or shreds off a solid lump

   I'm making coleslaw; do you know where the grater is?

Translations

a tool with which one grates

• Arabic: مِبْشَرَة f (mibšara)
• Azerbaijani: rəndə (az)
• Bashkir: ҡырғыс (qırğıs)
• Belarusian: та́рка f (tárka)
• Bulgarian: ренде n (rende), стъргало (bg) n (stǎrgalo)
• Catalan: ratllador
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 礤床 (zh) (cǎchuáng), 擦子 (cǎzi), 擦菜板 (cǎcàibǎn), 礤 (zh) (cǎ)

  Min Nan: 菜礤 (zh-min-nan) (chhài-chhoah)

• Czech: struhadlo (cs) n
• Danish: rivejern (da)
• Dutch: rasp (nl)
• Esperanto: kuireja raspilo, raspilo
• Estonian: riiv
• Faroese: rívijarn n
• Finnish: riivinrauta (fi), raastinrauta (fi), raastin
• French: râpe (fr) f
• Georgian: სახეხელა (saxexela)
• German: Reibe (de) f, Küchenreibe (de) f
• Greek: τρίφτης (el) (tríftis)

  Ancient: κνῆστις f (knêstis)

• Gujarati: છીણી (gu) (chīṇī)
• Hebrew: פֻּמְפִּיָּה (he)
• Hindi: कद्दूकस (kaddūkas)
• Hunsrik: Rappeise n
• Icelandic: rifjárn n
• Italian: grattugia (it) f
• Japanese: 卸し金 (おろしがね, oroshigane)
• Kazakh: турауыш (turauyş)
• Korean: 강판 (gangpan)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji:

• Kyrgyz: сүргүч (ky) (sürgüc)
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• Latin: rādula f
• Lithuanian: trintuvė
• Luxembourgish: Rapp
• Macedonian: ренде n (rende)
• Maltese: ħakkieka f
• Norman: grattise f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rivjern n

  Nynorsk: rivjarn n, rivjern n

• Persian: رنده (fa) (rande)
• Polish: tarka (pl) f
• Portuguese: ralador (pt) m
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: тёрка (ru) f (tjórka)
• Samogitian: tarka
• Scottish Gaelic: sgrìoban m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: рѐнде n, трѐница f

  Roman: rènde (sh) n, trènica (sh) f

• Sicilian: grattalora (scn)
• Slovak: strúhadlo n, strúhatko n
• Slovene: rende n
• Spanish: rallador (es) m, ralladora (es) f
• Swedish: rivjärn (sv)
• Tagalog: gadgaran
• Tajik: турбтарошак (turbtarošak)
• Tatar: угыч (tt) (uğıç), кыргыч (tt) (qırgıç)
• Turkish: rende (tr)
• Ukrainian: терту́шка f (tertúška), те́ртка f (tértka)
• Uzbek: qirgʻich (uz)
• Vietnamese: bàn mài
• Waray-Waray: kaguran
• Yiddish: ריב אייזן (rib eyzn)

See also

• surform

Anagrams

• Trager, garret, garter

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Old French

Alternative forms

• gratter

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *krattōn, from Proto-Germanic *krattōną.

Verb

grater

1. to scrape (come into physical contact with in a way that causes damage)

Derived terms

• grateor
• gratier

 

Descendants

• → English: grate
• French: gratter
• Norman: gratter
• Walloon: greter

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (grater, supplement)
• grater on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub