grater

See also: Grater and gråter

English

A grater.

Etymology

From Old French grateor. See grate.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: grāt'ə, IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹeɪtə/
• (US) enPR: grāt'ər, IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹeɪtɚ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
• Homophone: greater

Noun

grater (plural graters)

1. a tool with which one grates, especially foods such as cheese, to facilitate getting small particles or shreds off a solid lump

   I'm making coleslaw; do you know where the grater is?

   • 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 115:

     As she ran on her numerous errands Jessamy found that if she did not stop to think, she knew all kinds of odd little things that the other Jessamy must have learned, such as where the nutmeg grater lived, and which was the potato peeling knife.

Derived terms

• cheese grater
• coconut grater
• grater cake

Translations

a tool with which one grates

• Arabic: مِبْشَرَة f (mibšara)

  Moroccan Arabic: حكاكة f (ḥakkāka)

• Armenian: քերիչ (hy) (kʻeričʻ)
• Azerbaijani: rəndə (az), sürtgəc
• Bashkir: ҡырғыс (qırğıs)
• Belarusian: та́рка f (tárka)
• Bulgarian: ренде n (rende), стъргало (bg) n (stǎrgalo)
• Catalan: ratllador
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 菜礤 (zh-min-nan) (chhài-chhoah)

  Mandarin: 礤床 (zh) (cǎchuáng), 擦子 (zh) (cǎzi), 擦菜板 (cǎcàibǎn), 礤 (zh) (cǎ)

• Czech: struhadlo (cs) n
• Danish: rivejern (da)
• Dutch: rasp (nl)
• Esperanto: kuireja raspilo, raspilo
• Estonian: riiv
• Faroese: rívijarn n
• Finnish: riivinrauta (fi), raastinrauta (fi), raastin (fi)
• French: râpe (fr) f
• Georgian: სახეხელა (saxexela)
• German: Reibe (de) f, Küchenreibe (de) f
• Greek: τρίφτης (el) (tríftis)

  Ancient: κνῆστις f (knêstis), κατάνη f (katánē)

• Gujarati: છીણી (gu) (chīṇī)
• Hebrew: פֻּמְפִּיָּה (he), מגרדת, מגרדה, מגררת
• Hindi: कद्दूकस (kaddūkas)
• Hungarian: reszelő (hu)
• Hunsrik: Rappeise n
• Icelandic: rifjárn n
• Ingrian: törkkä
• Italian: grattugia (it) f
• Japanese: 卸し金 (ja) (おろしがね, oroshigane)
• Kazakh: үккіш (ükkış)
• Korean: 강판(薑板) (gangpan)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: rêşker

• Kyrgyz: сүргүч (ky) (sürgüc)
• Latin: rādula f
• Lithuanian: trintuvė
• Luxembourgish: Rapp
• Macedonian: ренде n (rende)
• Maltese: ħakkieka f
• Mbyá Guaraní: kytya
• Norman: grattise f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rivjern (no) n, rasp m or f

  Nynorsk: rivjarn n, rivjern n

• Persian: رنده (fa) (rande)
• Polish: tarka (pl) f
• Portuguese: ralador (pt) m
• Romanian: răzătoare (ro) f
• Russian: тёрка (ru) f (tjórka)
• Samogitian: tarka
• Scottish Gaelic: sgrìoban m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: рѐнде n, рибеж m, трѐница f

  Roman: rènde (sh) n, ribež (sh) m, trènica (sh) f

• Sicilian: grattarola
• Slovak: strúhadlo n, strúhatko n
• Slovene: rende n
• Spanish: rallador (es) m, ralladora (es) f
• Swedish: rivjärn (sv)
• Tagalog: gadgaran
• Tajik: турбтарошак (turbtarošak)
• Tatar: угыч (tt) (uğıç), кыргыч (tt) (qırgıç)
• Turkish: rende (tr)
• Ukrainian: терту́шка f (tertúška), те́ртка f (tértka)
• Uzbek: qirgʻich (uz)
• Vietnamese: bàn mài
• Waray-Waray: kaguran
• Yiddish: ריב אייזן (rib eyzn)
• Zazaki: rınde (diq)

See also

• surform
• zester

Anagrams

• Trager, garret, garter

Old French

Alternative forms

• gratter

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *krattōn, from Proto-Germanic *krattōną.

Verb

grater

1. to scrape (come into physical contact with in a way that causes damage)

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

    Conjugation of grater (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		grater			avoir graté
gerund		en gratant			gerund of avoir + past participle
present participle		gratant
past participle		graté
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		jo	tu	il	nos	vos	il
simple tenses	present	grat	grates	grate	gratons	gratez	gratent
	imperfect	gratoie, grateie, gratoe, grateve	gratoies, grateies, gratoes, grateves	gratoit, grateit, gratot, grateve	gratiiens, gratiens	gratiiez, gratiez	gratoient, grateient, gratoent, gratevent
	preterite	gratai	gratas	grata	gratames	gratastes	graterent
	future	graterai	grateras	gratera	graterons	grateroiz, gratereiz, graterez	grateront
	conditional	grateroie, gratereie	grateroies, gratereies	grateroit, gratereit	grateriiens, grateriens	grateriiez, grateriez	grateroient, gratereient
compound tenses	present perfect	present tense of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect tense of avoir + past participle
	past anterior	preterite tense of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future tense of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional tense of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que jo	que tu	qu’il	que nos	que vos	qu’il
simple tenses	present	grat	graz	grat	gratons	gratez	gratent
	imperfect	gratasse	gratasses	gratast	gratissons, gratissiens	gratissoiz, gratissez, gratissiez	gratassent
compound tenses	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nos	vos	–
		—	grate	—	gratons	gratez	—

Derived terms

• grateor
• gratier

Descendants

• → English: grate
• French: gratter
• Norman: gratter
• Walloon: greter

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (grater, supplement)
• grater on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub