colander

English

A typical household colander

Alternative forms

• cullender
• collinder (misspelling)

Etymology

From Middle English colyndore, coloundour, colonur, variants of Middle English culdor, culdore, culatre, ultimately from Latin cōlātōrium, from Latin cōlum. Cognates include Italian colino and Spanish colador.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒlɪndə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑləndɚ/, /ˈkɔləndɚ/

• Audio (UK):

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Noun

colander (plural colanders)

1. A bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food that has been cooking in water, such as pasta.

   Hypernyms: sieve, sile, strainer

   • 1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 67:

     An electric fire came next, followed by an umbrella and then a colander. "This bowl will carry no water," he muttered. "Some loon hath pierced it with holes."

Derived terms

• sea colander

Related terms

• coulee
• percolate

Translations

a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta

• Arabic: مِصْفَاة f (miṣfāh)
• Armenian: քամոց (hy) (kʻamocʻ), քամիչ (hy) (kʻamičʻ)
• Azerbaijani: süzgəc (az), kəfgir (az)
• Belarusian: друшля́к m (drušlják)
• Bulgarian: решето n (rešeto), гевгир m (gevgir)
• Catalan: escorredora (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 濾器／滤器 (zh) (lǜqì), 漉鍋／漉锅 (lùguō), 漏勺 (zh) (lòusháo)

• Czech: cedník (cs) m, řešeto (cs) n
• Danish: dørslag n
• Dutch: vergiet (nl) n, verzijp (nl) n
• Fijian: lawalawa
• Finnish: siivilä (fi), lävikkö (fi)
• French: passoire (fr) f
• Georgian: თუშფალანგი (ka) (tušpalangi)
• German: Sieb (de) m, Küchensieb m, Abtropfsieb m, Seiher (de) m (regional), Durchschlag (de) m (regional)

  Alemannic German: Fättere f

• Greek: σουρωτήρι (el) n (sourotíri), τρυπητό (el) n (trypitó)
• Hindi: कोलंडर (kolaṇḍar)
• Hungarian: szűrő (hu), tésztaszűrő (hu), szűrőedény (hu)
• Icelandic: sigti n, dörslag n
• Indonesian: penapis (id)
• Irish: síothlán m
• Italian: colino (it) m, colapasta m, colabrodo (it) m
• Japanese: コランダー (korandā), 水切りボール (みずきりボール, mizukiri bōru)
• Korean: 소쿠리 (sokuri)
• Latin: cōlum n
• Macedonian: цедалка f (cedalka)
• Malay: penapis
• Maori: kumete tātari, tātari
• Norman: coul'rêsse f
• Norwegian: dørslag (no) n
• Ottoman Turkish: سوزگج (süzgec), مصفات (misfat)
• Persian: آبکش (fa) (âbkeš)
• Plautdietsch: Säw n, Derchschlach m
• Polish: durszlak (pl) m, cedzak (pl) m
• Portuguese: escorredor (pt) m, passador (pt) m, coador (pt) m
• Romanian: strecurătoare (ro) f
• Russian: дуршла́г (ru) m (duršlág)
• Scottish Gaelic: sìoltachan m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: цедило n, цједило n, ђевђир m

  Roman: cedilo (sh) n, cjedilo (sh) n, đevđir (sh) m,

• Sicilian: scolapasta f
• Slovak: cedák m, cedidlo n
• Slovene: cedilo n
• Spanish: colador (es) m, escurridor (es) m, coladero m, zafra f
• Swedish: durkslag (sv) n
• Tibetan: ཚག (tshag)
• Turkish: süzgeç (tr), kevgir (tr)
• Ukrainian: друшля́к m (drušlják)
• Uzbek: chovli (uz)
• Vietnamese: giá lọc
• Welsh: hidlwr m, colandr m, hidl (cy) f

Further reading

• colander on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• CONELRAD, Arlecdon, Calderon