refrigerator

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin refrīgerātor (“cooler”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈfɹɪd͡ʒ.əˌɹeɪ.tə/, [ɹɪˈfɹɪd͡ʒ.əˌɹeɪ.tʰə]

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• (General American, without weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈfɹɪd͡ʒ.əˌɹeɪ.tɚ/, [ɹɪˈfɹɪd͡ʒ.əˌɹeɪ.ɾɚ]

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    • (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /ɹəˈfɹɪd͡ʒ.əˌɹeɪ.tɚ/, [ɹəˈfɹɪd͡ʒ.əˌɹeɪ.ɾɚ]
• Hyphenation: re‧frig‧e‧ra‧tor

Noun

refrigerator (plural refrigerators)

An open refrigerator

2. A household or commercial appliance used for keeping food fresh by refrigeration (short form fridge).

   Hyponym: walk-in

   Meronym: condenser

   Coordinate term: freezer

   • 1868, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, ch. 11:

     Jo uttered a groan and fell back in her chair, remembering that she had given a last hasty powdering to the berries out of one of the two boxes on the kitchen table, and had neglected to put the milk in the refrigerator.

   • 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist‎^[1], volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):

     An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.

3. A similar device used to keep non-food items cold, such as blood, photographic film, drugs, or pharmaceuticals like insulin.

   Meronym: condenser

   Coordinate term: freezer

4. One who has a chilling influence.
   • 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:

     […] in a state of sublime satisfaction, he moves among the company, a magnificent refrigerator.

Synonyms

• chiller
• coolchest
• fridge, frigerator
• icebox

Derived terms

• absorption refrigerator
• Einstein refrigerator
• Einstein-Szilárd refrigerator
• fridge
• in the refrigerator
• kegerator
• microrefrigerator
• minirefrigerator
• nanorefrigerator
• refrig
• refrigerator-freezer
• refrigeratorful
• refrigeratorlike
• refrigerator magnet
• refrigerator mom
• refrigerator mother
• refrigerator pie
• refrigerator truck
• walk-in refrigerator

Related terms

• refrigerate
• refrigeration

Descendants

• → Cebuano: ripridyiritor
• → Kashubian: refredrzerejta (United States)
• → Malayalam: റഫ്രിജറേറ്റർ (ṟaphrijaṟēṟṟaṟ)

Translations

appliance

• Abkhaz: архьшәашәага (arxʲŝʷaŝʷaga)
• Afrikaans: yskas (af)
• Albanian: frigorifer (sq) m
• Altai:

  Southern Altai: сооткыш (sootkïš)

• Amharic: ማቀዝቀዣ (maḳäzḳäža)
• Amis: pinsyang
• Arabic: ثَلَّاجَة (ar) f (ṯallāja)

  Algerian Arabic: فريجدار

  Hijazi Arabic: ثَلَّاجة f (tallāja)

  North Levantine Arabic: براد m (barrād)

  South Levantine Arabic: تلاجة (tallāje)

• Aramaic:

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܲܬܠܓ݂ܵܢܝܼܬܵܐ f (matlḡānītā), ܬܲܠܵܓܵܐ m or f (tallāgā)

• Armenian: սառնարան (hy) (saṙnaran)
• Aromanian: frigurifer
• Asturian: nevera (ast) f, ñevera (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: soyuducu (az)
• Bashkir: һыуытҡыс (hıwıtqıs)
• Basque: hozkailu (eu)
• Belarusian: халадзі́льнік m (xaladzílʹnik)
• Bengali: ফ্রিজ (bn) (phrij), হিমায়ক (himaẏok)
• Breton: yenerez
• Bulgarian: хлади́лник (bg) m (hladílnik)
• Burmese: ရေခဲသေတ္တာ (my) (rehkai:setta)
• Catalan: frigorífic (ca) m, nevera (ca) f
• Chechen: шелиг (šelig)
• Cherokee: ᎠᏴᏜᏗᏍᏗᏍᎩ (ayvdladisdisgi)
• Chickasaw: aakapassachi', aakapassali'
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 雪櫃 / 雪柜 (syut³ gwai⁶)

  Dungan: бинщён (binxi͡on)

  Eastern Min: 冰箱 (bĭng-siŏng)

  Hakka: 冰箱 (pên-siông)

  Hokkien: 冰箱 (zh-min-nan) (peng-siuⁿ / peng-sioⁿ), 冰櫥 / 冰橱 (peng-tû)

  Mandarin: 冰箱 (zh) (bīngxiāng), 冰櫥 / 冰橱 (zh) (bīngchú) (Malaysia, Singapore)

  Wu: 冰箱 (¹pin-shian)

• Czech: lednice (cs) f, chladnička (cs) f, lednička (cs) f
• Danish: køleskab (da) n
• Dhivehi: އައިސްއަލަމާރި (aisalamāri)
• Dutch: koelkast (nl) f, ijskast (nl) f, frigo (nl) m
• East Frisian Low German: köylskap n
• Esperanto: malvarmujo, fridujo (eo)
• Estonian: külmkapp (et), külmik
• Faroese: køliskáp n
• Finnish: jääkaappi (fi)
• French: réfrigérateur (fr) m, frigo (fr) m (colloquial)
• Frisian:

  North Frisian:

  Föhr-Amrum: keelskaab f or n

  Karrharde: käilskååp n

  Northern Goesharde: keelschååp n (Ockholm), käilschaap n (Langenhorn)

  Sylt: Köölskaap m or n, Isskaap m or n

  Saterland Frisian: Köilskap n

  West Frisian: kuolkast c

• Galician: neveira (gl) f, frigorífico (gl) m, refrixerador (gl) m
• Georgian: მაცივარი (macivari)
• German: Kühlschrank (de) m, Kühlraum (de) m (large), Eiskasten (de) m (Austria), Frigidaire (de) m (Austria, obsolete)
• Greek: ψυγείο (el) n (psygeío)
• Greenlandic: nillataartitsivik
• Gujarati: શીતપેટી (śītpeṭī)
• Hawaiian: pahu hau
• Hebrew: מְקָרֵר (he) m (m'karér)
• Hindi: फ़्रिज f (frij), फ्रिज f (phrij), प्रशीतित्र m (praśītitra)
• Hmong:

  White Hmong: tub yees

• Hungarian: hűtőszekrény (hu), fridzsider (hu)
• Icelandic: kæliskápur (is) m, ísskápur (is) m
• Ido: frigorizilo (io), frigorizivo (io)
• Indonesian: kulkas (id), lemari es (id), lemari pendingin (id), peti es (id)
• Ingush: шелду (šeldu)
• Irish: cuisneoir (ga) m
• Isoko: udhaamị
• Italian: frigorifero (it) m, frigo (it) m
• Japanese: 冷蔵庫 (ja) (れいぞうこ, reizōko)
• Kannada: ಶೀತಕಯಂತ್ರ (kn) (śītakayantra)
• Kazakh: тоңазытқыш (kk) (toñazytqyş), мұздатқыш (kk) (mūzdatqyş)
• Khmer: ទូទឹកកក (tuu tɨk kɑɑk)
• Korean: 냉장고(冷藏庫) (ko) (naengjanggo), 랭장고(冷藏庫) (raengjanggo) (North Korea), 삥샹 (ppingsyang) (Yanbian, also)
• Ktunaxa: k̓isqat̕imaⱡ k̓ikiⱡ
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: sarinc (ku)

• Kyrgyz: муздаткыч (ky) (muzdatkıc)
• Ladino: frijider
• Lao: ຕູ້ເຢັນ (lo) (tū yen)
• Latin: armārium frīgidārium n
• Latvian: ledusskapis m
• Lithuanian: šaldytuvas m
• Lushootseed: səxʷƛ̓ux̌ʷilali
• Macedonian: ладилник m (ladilnik), фрижиде́р (mk) m (frižidér)
• Malay: peti ais (ms), peti sejuk (ms)
• Malayalam: ശീതീകരണയന്ത്രം (śītīkaraṇayantraṁ), ശീതീകരണി (śītīkaraṇi), റഫ്രിജറേറ്റർ (ṟaphrijaṟēṟṟaṟ), ഫ്രിഡ്ജ് (phriḍjŭ)
• Maltese: friġġ m
• Manx: feayreyder
• Māori: pākatio, whiriti
• Marathi: शीतकपाट (śītakpāṭ), शीतपेटी (śītpeṭī), फ्रिज (phrij)
• Minjungbal: waring bin
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: хөргөгч (mn) (xörgögč), хөргүүр (mn) (xörgüür), хөлдөөгүүр (xöldöögüür) (China, fridge/freezer)

  Mongolian script: ᠬᠥᠷᠦᠭᠡᠭᠴᠢ (körügeɣči), ᠬᠥᠷᠦᠭᠡᠭᠦᠷ (körügegür), ᠬᠥᠯᠳᠡᠭᠡᠭᠦᠷ (köldegegür)

• Navajo: bee azkʼazí, biiʼazkʼazí
• Norman: frigo m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kjøleskap (no) n

  Nynorsk: kjøleskap n

• Occitan: refrigerador (oc)
• Pannonian Rusyn: фрижидер m (frižider), хладзальнїк m (xladzalʹnjik)
• Pashto: يخچال (ps) m (yaxčāl), يخوونکی m (yaxawunkay), کنګلځی m (kangaljay)
• Persian:

  Dari: یَخْچَال (yaxčāl)

  Iranian Persian: یَخْچال (yaxčâl)

• Polish: lodówka (pl) f, chłodziarka (pl) f
• Portuguese: geladeira (pt) f (Brazil), frigorífico (pt) m (Portugal)
• Romanian: frigider (ro) n
• Russian: холоди́льник (ru) m (xolodílʹnik), рефрижера́тор (ru) m (refrižerátor) (large or industrial)
• Sami:

  Northern Sami: galbmaskábe

  Southern Sami: jueskiedahke

• Samoan: please add this translation if you can
• Sanskrit: शीतकम् (śītakam)
• Sardinian: frigorìferu m
• Scottish Gaelic: fionnaradair m, frids m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хла̑дња̄к m, фрижѝде̄р m

  Latin: hlȃdnjāk (sh) m, frižìdēr (sh) m

• Sikkimese: འཁྱག་སྒྲོམ ('khyag sgrom)
• Sindhi: فرج (frj)
• Sinhalese: ශීතකරණය (śītakaraṇaya)
• Slovak: ľadnička f
• Slovene: hladilnik (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: chłoźeca spižka f, chłodnik m

  Upper Sorbian: chłódźak m, chłódźak m

• Spanish: (Spain) frigorífico (es) m, (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay) heladera (es) f, (Colombia, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Venezuela - regional usage in Spain) nevera (es) f, (Bolivia, Chile, Cuba, Mexico) refrigerador (es) m, (Central America, Ecuador, Peru) refrigeradora (es) f, (Cuba, colloquial) frío (es) m, frigider m (Andes)
• Swahili: jokofu (sw), friji (sw), mashine ya barafu
• Swedish: kylskåp (sv) n
• Tagalog: repriherador, palamigan, ref
• Tajik: хунуккунак (xunukkunak), яхчол (yaxčol)
• Tatar: суыткыч (tt) (suwıtqıç)
• Tetum: frigorífiku
• Thai: ตู้เย็น (th) (dtûu-yen)
• Tibetan: འཁྱགས་སྒམ ('khyags sgam)
• Tigrinya: መዝሓሊት (mäzḥalit)
• Tongan: ʻaisi
• Turkish: buzdolabı (tr), (obsolete) frijider (tr)
• Turkmen: holodilnik, sowadyjy
• Tuvan: соодукчу (soodukçu)
• Ukrainian: холоди́льник m (xolodýlʹnyk)
• Unami: kuni puhwexòkw
• Urdu: سَرْد خانَہ m (sard xāna), فْرِج f (frij)
• Uyghur: توڭلاتقۇ (tonglatqu)
• Uzbek: muzlatgich, xolodilnik (uz)
• Vietnamese: tủ lạnh (vi)
• Volapük: gladaramar (vo)
• Walloon: frigo (wa)
• Welsh: oergell (cy) f
• Wolof: firisideer bi
• Yakut: сойутар (soyutar)
• Yiddish: פֿרידזשידער m (fridzhider), קעלטערער m (kelterer), אײַזקאַסטן m (ayzkastn)
• Yup'ik: kumlivik
• Zhuang: binghsiengh

See also

• cooler

Further reading

• refrigerator on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Etymology

From refrīgerō +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [rɛ.friː.ɡɛˈraː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [re.fri.d͡ʒeˈraː.tor]

Noun

refrīgerātor m (genitive refrīgerātōris); third declension

1. (Medieval Latin) one who cools, cooler
2. (Contemporary Latin) refrigerator

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	refrīgerātor	refrīgerātōrēs
genitive	refrīgerātōris	refrīgerātōrum
dative	refrīgerātōrī	refrīgerātōribus
accusative	refrīgerātōrem	refrīgerātōrēs
ablative	refrīgerātōre	refrīgerātōribus
vocative	refrīgerātor	refrīgerātōrēs

Descendants

• → English: refrigerator
• → Catalan: refrigerador (learned)
• → French: réfrigérateur (learned)
• → Italian: refrigeratore (learned)
• → Portuguese: refrigerador (learned)
• → Romanian: refrigerator (learned)
• → Spanish: refrigerador (learned)

Verb

refrīgerātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of refrīgerō

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French réfrigérateur. Equivalent to refrigera +‎ -tor.

Noun

refrigerator n (plural refrigeratoare)

1. refrigerator

   Synonym: frigider

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	refrigerator	refrigeratorul		refrigeratoare	refrigeratoarele
genitive-dative	refrigerator	refrigeratorului		refrigeratoare	refrigeratoarelor
vocative	refrigeratorule			refrigeratoarelor