ladle

English

a ladle (noun sense 1)

a ladle (noun sense 2)

a stereogram of a ladle (noun sense 2)

Etymology

From Middle English ladel, from Old English hlædel, derived from Proto-Germanic *hlaþaną (“to load”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂- (“to put, lay out”), same source as Lithuanian kloti (“to spread”), equivalent to lade +‎ -le (“agent suffix”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈleɪ.dəl/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪdəl

Noun

ladle (plural ladles)

2. A deep-bowled spoonlike utensil with a long, usually curved, handle.

   Synonym: dipper

   Coordinate term: serving spoon

   • 1680, Robert Boyle, Experiments and Notes about the Producibleness of Chemical Principles:

     When the materials of glass have been kept long in fusion, the mixture casts up the superfluous salt, which the workmen afterwards take off with ladles.

4. (metallurgy) A container used in a foundry or steel mill to transport and pour out molten metal.
5. The float or paddle on a mill wheel.

   Synonym: ladle board

6. An instrument for drawing the charge of a cannon.
   • 1923, Charles Boardman Hawes, The Dark Frigate, Chapter 6:

     The great guns ranged along the deck — each bound fast by its new breechings — with their linstocks and sponges and ladles and rammers, made no idle show of warlike strength.

7. A ring, with a handle or handles fitted to it, for carrying shot.

Derived terms

• beladle
• bull ladle
• frying ladle
• ladleful
• ladle furnace
• ladleman
• ladler
• spoodle
• toddy ladle

Descendants

• → Welsh: ladl

Translations

deep-bowled spoon with a long, usually curved, handle — see also scoop

• Albanian: luhare (sq) f
• Altai:

  Southern Altai: суску (susku)

• Amharic: ጭልፋ (č̣əlfa)
• Arabic: مِغْرَفَة f (miḡrafa)

  Egyptian Arabic: مغرفة f (maḡrafa)

  Hijazi Arabic: مِغْرَفَة f (miḡrafa), كَبْشَة f (kabša)

• Aramaic:

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܲܓ݂ܪܲܦܬܵܐ f (maḡraptā), ܒܵܚܘܿܫܬܵܐ f (bāḥōštā)

• Armenian: շերեփ (hy) (šerepʻ)
• Asturian: garfiella (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: çömçə (az)
• Baluchi: ہنسگ (hansag)
• Belarusian: чарпа́к m (čarpák), апало́нік m (apalónik), коўш m (kowš), чарпе́нь m (čarpjénʹ)
• Bengali: হাতা (bn) (hata)
• Bhojpuri: करछूल (karᵊchūl)
• Bikol:

  Central Bikol: luwag (bcl)

• Breton: kloge f
• Bulgarian: черпа́к (bg) m (čerpák)
• Burmese: ယောက် (my) (yauk), မှုတ် (my) (hmut)
• Catalan: cullerot (ca) m, culler (ca) m
• Cebuano: luwag
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 湯殼 / 汤壳 (tong¹ hok³) (soup ladle), 炒殼 / 炒壳 (caau² hok³) (wok ladle)

  Mandarin: 杓子 (zh) (sháozi), 瓢 (zh) (piáo)

• Crimean Tatar: çömüç
• Czech: naběračka (cs) f
• Danish: øse c
• Dhivehi: ސަމުސާ (samusā)
• Dutch: (Belgium) pollepel (nl) m, (Netherlands) opscheplepel (nl) m, juslepel (nl) m
• Estonian: kulp
• Finnish: kauha (fi)
• French: louche (fr) f cuillère à pot (fr), poche (fr), pochon (fr)
• Galician: cazo (gl) m, culler (gl) f, ferrada f, garfela f
• Georgian: ჩამჩა (ka) (čamča)
• German: Kelle (de) f, Suppenkelle (de), Schöpfkelle (de) f, Schöpflöffel (de) m
• Greek: κουτάλα (el) f (koutála)

  Ancient Greek: κύαθος m (kúathos), ἀρυτήρ m (arutḗr)

• Gujarati: કડછો m (kaḍcho), ડોઈ f (ḍoī)
• Hawaiian: kīʻapu
• Hebrew: מַצֶּקֶת (he) f (matséket)
• Higaonon: luwag
• Hindi: कलछी (hi) f (kalchī), करछा (hi) m (karchā), डोई (hi) f (ḍoī) (wooden)
• Hungarian: merőkanál (hu)
• Icelandic: ausa f
• Ingrian: kaavi, patalusikka
• Irish: ladar m
• Italian: mestolo (it) m, ramaiolo (it) m
• Japanese: お玉杓子 (ja) (おたまじゃくし, otamajakushi), お玉 (おたま, otama)
• Kashubian: chòchla f, kórzczew f, kórzczôk m, warzëchwia f
• Kazakh: ожау (kk) (ojau), шөміш (şömış)
• Khmer: វែក (km) (vɛɛk)
• Kikuyu: mũiko class 3
• Komi:

  Komi-Zyrian: дар (dar)

• Korean: 국자 (ko) (gukja)
• Kyrgyz: шорпого (şorpogo), чөмүч (ky) (cömüc), сузгу (ky) (suzgu)
• Lao: ຈອງ (chǭng), ກະຕ່ອງ (ka tǭng) (of wood or straw)
• Latin: trua f, trulla f
• Latvian: pavārnīca f
• Laz: შერეპი (şerep̌i)
• Lithuanian: samtis (lt) m
• Macedonian: цр́пка f (cŕpka), цр́палка f (cŕpalka), ку́тлача f (kútlača)
• Malay: senduk (ms)

  Brunei Malay: sinduk

• Malayalam: കയിൽ (ml) (kayil), കോരിക (ml) (kōrika)
• Maltese: please add this translation if you can
• Manx: lheegh f, lheegh awree f (soup ladle)
• Māori: kapu, kōtutu
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: марласовла (marlasovla)

  Western Mari: кого савала (kogo savala)

• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: шанага (mn) (šanaga)

• Norman: dréch'rêsse f
• Norn: josa f, hjosa f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ause m or f, øse (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: ause f

• Ojibwe: emikwaanens
• Persian: مَلاقِه (fa) (malâqe), کَفچِه (fa) (kafče), چَمچِه (fa) (čamče)
• Plautdietsch: Schleef m
• Polish: apałonik (pl) m (regional), chochla (pl) f, kopyść (pl) f (regional), łyżka wazowa (pl) f, warząchew (pl) f, warzęcha (pl) f (dialectal)
• Portuguese: concha (pt) f
• Punjabi:

  Shahmukhi: ڈوئی f (ḍo'ī)

• Quechua: wisllasapa
• Romanian: polonic (ro) n
• Russian: поло́вник (ru) m (polóvnik), черпа́к (ru) m (čerpák), ковш (ru) m (kovš), поварёшка (ru) f (povarjóška)
• Sanskrit: दर्वि (sa) f (darvi)
• Scottish Gaelic: ladar m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: паљак m, кациола f, заимача f, ше̏фља f, ку̀хача f, ку̀тлача f, сипача f

  Latin: paljak m, kaciola f, zaimača f, šȅflja (sh) f, kùhača (sh) f, kùtlača (sh) f, sipača f

• Sicilian: cuppinu (scn) m
• Sikkimese: སྐྱོགས (skyogs)
• Silesian: kelnia f, warzecha f
• Slovak: naberačka f
• Slovene: zajemalko n
• Spanish: cucharón (es) m, cazo (es) m, hataca f, venencia f (for wine), avenencia (es) f (for wine)
• Swedish: slev (sv) c, skopa (sv) c
• Tagalog: sandok, kutsaron
• Tajik: кафлез (kaflez), обгардон (obgardon)
• Tamil: கரண்டி (ta) (karaṇṭi)
• Tarifit: aɣenja m
• Tày: bôi, bai, buôi
• Thai: ทัพพี (th) (táp-pii)
• Tibetan: སྐྱོག (skyog)
• Turkish: kepçe (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: كپچه (kepçe), چمچه (çömçe), صوساق (susak)

• Turkmen: çolpy
• Udmurt: дуры (dury)
• Ukrainian: черпа́к m (čerpák), ополо́ник m (opolónyk), ківш (uk) m (kivš)
• Unami: òlèmhòn
• Urdu: کَرْچھا m (karchā), ڈوئی f (ḍoī) (wooden)
• Uyghur: چۆمۈچ (chömüch)
• Uzbek: choʻmich (uz)
• Venetan: mescol (vec) m, méscoƚo m
• Vietnamese: môi (vi), giá (vi), muôi (vi), vá (vi)
• Walloon: loce (wa) f
• Welsh: lletwad f

container used in a foundry to transport and pour out molten metal

• Bulgarian: пота f (pota)
• Danish: støbeske
• Finnish: senkka (fi), valusanko
• French: poche (fr) f
• German: Gießpfanne f
• Italian: siviera (it) f
• Polish: kadź (pl) f
• Spanish: cazo (es) m
• Swedish: skänk (sv) c

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Chinese:

  Hokkien: ^{(please verify)} 桸 (zh-min-nan) (hia)

Verb

ladle (third-person singular simple present ladles, present participle ladling, simple past and past participle ladled)

Ramen being ladled (verb sense 1).

2. (transitive) To pour or serve something with a ladle.

   One worker ladled molten steel into the shot sleeve.

   The host ladled the soup into her guests' bowls.

Translations

serve with a ladle

• Bulgarian: греба (bg) (greba), загребвам (bg) (zagrebvam)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 𢳂 / 𫼣 (yue) (bat¹)

  Mandarin: 盛 (zh) (chéng)

• Dutch: opscheppen (nl), inscheppen, opdienen (nl)
• Finnish: kauhoa (fi)
• Icelandic: ausa
• Ingrian: ammultaa
• Macedonian: цр́пи (cŕpi), нацр́пува (nacŕpuva)
• Manx: lheegh
• Māori: kōtutu, tīkoko
• Russian: черпать (ru) (čerpatʹ), зачерпывать (ru) (začerpyvatʹ)
• Spanish: vertir (es)

Anagrams

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