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): /ˈkɑləndəɹ/, /ˈkɔləndəɹ/
Audio (UK) (file)

Noun

colander (plural colanders)

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) (kʿamocʿ), քամիչ (hy) (kʿamičʿ)
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
Finnish: siivilä (fi), lävikkö (fi)
French: passoire (fr) f
Georgian: თუშფალანგი (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)
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
Malay: penapis
Maori: kumete tātari, tātari
Norman: coul'rêsse f
Norwegian: dørslag (no) n
Persian: آبکش‎ (fa) (âbkeš)
Plautdietsch: Säw n, Derchschlach m
Polish: durszlak (pl) m, cedzak (pl) m
Portuguese: escorredor 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
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

Anagrams

CONELRAD, Calderon