salt shaker

See also: saltshaker

English

Noun

salt shaker (plural salt shakers)

1. A small container designed to hold salt and facilitate sprinkling it on food for seasoning purposes.

Synonyms

• salt cellar
• Lot's wife

Translations

a small container designed to hold salt and facilitate sprinkling — see also salt cellar

• Arabic: رَشَّاشَةْ الْمِلْح f (raššāšat al-milḥ)

  South Levantine Arabic: مملحة f (mamlaḥa)

• Armenian: աղաման (hy) (aġaman)
• Asturian: saleru m
• Azerbaijani: duzqabı, nəməkdan
• Basque: gatzontzi
• Bulgarian: со́лница (bg) f (sólnica)
• Catalan: saler (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鹽瓶／盐瓶 (zh) (yánpíng)

• Czech: slánka (cs) f, solnička (cs) f
• Danish: saltbøsse (da) c
• Dutch: zoutvaatje (nl)
• Emilian: salèin m, salarôl m (Bolognese), salén m (Modenese)
• Esperanto: salujo
• Estonian: soolatoos
• Finnish: suolasirotin (fi)
• French: salière (fr) f
• Galician: saleiro (gl) m
• Georgian: სამარილე (samarile)
• German: Salzstreuer (de) m, Salzfässchen (de) n
• Greek: αλατιέρα (el) f (alatiéra)
• Hebrew: מלחייה \ מִלְחִיָּה (he) f (milkhiyá)
• Hungarian: sótartó (hu), sószóró (hu)
• Ido: saluyo (io)
• Italian: saliera (it) f, spargisale (it) m
• Japanese: 塩入れ (しおいれ, shioire)
• Kashubian: solnica f
• Komi-Permyak: совдоз (sovdoz)
• Korean: 소금병 (sogeumbyeong)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: خوێدان (xwêdan)

• Latin: salīnum n
• Lithuanian: druskinė
• Macedonian: соларник m (solarnik)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: saltbøsse m or f

  Nynorsk: saltbøsse f, saltbørse f

• Persian: نمکدان (fa) (namakdân)
• Plautdietsch: Soltstreia m
• Polish: solniczka (pl) f
• Portuguese: saleiro (pt) m
• Romanian: solniță (ro) f
• Romansch: salarin m
• Russian: соло́нка (ru) f (solónka)
• Samogitian: droskėnė
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сланик m, соланик m, тузлук m

  Roman: slanik (sh) m, solanik m, tuzluk (sh) m

• Slovak: soľnička f
• Spanish: salero (es) m
• Swedish: saltströare (sv) c
• Turkish: tuzluk (tr)
• Ukrainian: сільни́чка f (silʹnýčka), сільни́ця f (silʹnýcja), соля́нка f (soljánka) (rare)
• Vietnamese: ^{(please verify)} lọ rắc muối
• Walloon: sånî (wa) m

See also

• pepper shaker

Further reading

• Salt and pepper shakers on Wikipedia.Wikipedia