salt shaker

See also: saltshaker

English

Etymology

From salt + shaker

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

Translations

a small container designed to hold salt and facilitate sprinkling

• Arabic: رَشَّاشَة الْمِلْح‏‎ f (raššāšat al-milḥ)
• Armenian: աղաման (ałaman)
• Basque: gatzontzi
• Bulgarian: солница (bg) f (sólnica)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鹽瓶, 盐瓶 (yánpíng)

• Czech: slánka (cs) f, solnička (cs) f
• Danish: saltbøsse (da) c
• Esperanto: salujo
• Finnish: suolasirotin
• French: salière (fr) f
• German: Salzstreuer (de) m, Salzfässchen (de) n
• Greek: αλατιέρα (el) f (alatiéra)
• Hungarian: sótartó (hu)
• Italian: saliera (it) f
• Japanese: 塩入れ (しおいれ, shioire)

• Korean: 소금병 (sogeumbyeong)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: خوێدان‏‎ (ku)

• Macedonian: соларник m (sólarnik)
• Persian: نمکدان‏‎ (fa) (namakdân)
• Polish: solniczka (pl) f
• Portuguese: saleiro (pt) m
• Russian: соло́нка (ru) f (solónka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сланик m, соланик m, тузлук m

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

• Spanish: salero (es) m
• Swedish: saltkar (sv) n
• Turkish: tuzluk (tr)
• Ukrainian: сільничка (silʹnýčka)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

Related terms

• pepper shaker