ladle

ladle

English

A ladle

A ladle (metallurgy).

Etymology

From Middle English ladel, from Old English hlædel, derived from Proto-Germanic *hlaþaną (“to load”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂- (“to put, lay out”), same source as Lithuanian kloti (“to spread”), [1][2] equivalent to lade +‎ -le (“agent suffix”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈleɪ.dəl/

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• Rhymes: -eɪdəl

Noun

ladle (plural ladles)

1. A deep-bowled spoon with a long, usually curved, handle.
   • 1680, Robert Boyle, Experiments and Notes about the Producibleness of Chemical Principles

     When the materials of glass have been kept long in fusion, the mixture casts up the superfluous salt, which the workmen afterwards take off with ladles.

2. (metallurgy) A container used in a foundry to transport and pour out molten metal.
3. The float of a mill wheel; a ladle board.
4. An instrument for drawing the charge of a cannon.
5. A ring, with a handle or handles fitted to it, for carrying shot.

Synonyms

• (deep-bowled spoon): dipper

Derived terms

• frying ladle

Translations

deep-bowled spoon with a long, usually curved, handle

Arabic: مِغْرَفَة‎ f (miḡrafa) Egyptian Arabic: مغرفة‎ f (maḡrafa) Hijazi Arabic: مِغْرَفَة‎ f (miḡrafa), كَبْشَة‎ f (kabša) Armenian: շերեփ (hy) (šerepʿ) Asturian: garfiella (ast) f Azerbaijani: çömçə (az) Baluchi: ہنسگ‎ (hansag) Belarusian: чарпа́к m (čarpák) Bengali: হাতা (hata) Brunei Malay: sinduk Bulgarian: черпа́к m (čerpák) Burmese: ယောက် (my) (yauk), မှုတ် (my) (hmut) Catalan: cullerot (ca) m Cebuano: luwag Chinese: Cantonese: 湯殼, 汤壳 (tong1 hok3) (soup ladle), 炒殼, 炒壳 (caau2 hok3) (wok ladle) Mandarin: 杓子 (zh) (sháozi), 瓢 (zh) (piáo) Crimean Tatar: çömüç Czech: naběračka (cs) f Danish: øse c Dutch: (Belgium) pollepel (nl) m, (Netherlands) opscheplepel (nl) m, juslepel (nl) m Finnish: kauha (fi) French: louche (fr) f cuillère à pot (fr), poche (fr), pochon (fr) Galician: cazo (gl) m, culler (gl) f, ferrada f, garfela f Georgian: ჩამჩა (čamča) German: Kelle (de) f, Suppenkelle (de), Schöpfkelle (de) f, Schöpflöffel (de) m Greek: κουτάλα (el) f (koutála) Ancient: κύαθος m (kúathos), ἀρυτήρ m (arutḗr) Gujarati: કડછો m (kaḍcho), ડોઈ f (ḍoī) Hebrew: מצקת‎ (he) f (matséket) Higaonon: luwag Hindi: कलछी (hi) f (kalchī), डोई (hi) f (ḍoī) Hungarian: merőkanál (hu) Icelandic: ausa f Italian: mestolo (it) m, ramaiolo (it) m Japanese: お玉杓子 (おたまじゃくし, otamajakushi), お玉 (おたま, otama) Kazakh: ожау (kk) (ojau), шөміш (şömış) Khmer: វែក (km) (vɛɛk) Kikuyu: mũiko class 3 Korean: 국자 (ko) (gukja) Kyrgyz: шорпого (şorpogo), чөмүч (ky) (çömüç), сузгу (ky) (suzgu) Lao: ຈອງ (chǭng) Latin: trua f, trulla f Laz: შერეპი (şerep̌i) Macedonian: цр́пка f (cŕpka), цр́палка f (cŕpalka), ку́тлача f (kútlača) Malay: senduk Malayalam: കയിൽ (ml) (kayil), കോരിക (ml) (kōrika) Maltese: please add this translation if you can Manx: lheegh f, lheegh awree f (soup ladle) Maori: kōtutu Norman: dréch'rêsse f Norwegian: Bokmål: øse (no) m or f Nynorsk: ause f Ojibwe: emikwaanens Ottoman Turkish: صوساق‎ (susak) Persian: ملاقه‎ (fa) (malâqe), کفچه‎ (fa) (kafče) Plautdietsch: Schleef m Polish: chochla (pl) f, łyżka wazowa (pl) f Portuguese: concha (pt) f Punjabi: Shahmukhi: ڈوئی‎ f (ḍo'ī) Quechua: wisllasapa Romanian: polonic (ro) n Russian: поло́вник (ru) m (polóvnik), черпа́к (ru) m (čerpák), ковш (ru) m (kovš), поварёшка (ru) f (povarjóška) Sanskrit: दर्वि (sa) f (darvi) Scottish Gaelic: ladar m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: паљак m, кациола f, заимача f, ше̏фља f, ку̀хача f, ку̀тлача f, сипача f Roman: paljak m, kaciola f, zaimača f, šȅflja (sh) f, kùhača (sh) f, kùtlača (sh) f, sipača f Sicilian: cuppinu (scn) m Slovak: naberačka f Slovene: zajemalko n Spanish: cucharón (es) m, cazo (es) m Swedish: slev (sv), skopa (sv) Tajik: кафлез (kaflez) Thai: ทัพพี (th) (táp-pii) Tibetan: སྐྱོག (skyog) Turkish: kepçe (tr) Turkmen: çolpy Ukrainian: черпа́к m (čerpák), ополо́ник m (opolónyk) Uzbek: choʻmich (uz) Venetian: mescol (vec) m, méscoƚo m Vietnamese: môi (vi), giá (vi) Welsh: lletwad f

container used in a foundry to transport and pour out molten metal

Bulgarian: пота f (pota) Danish: støbeske Finnish: senkka (fi), valusanko French: poche (fr) f German: Gießpfanne f Italian: siviera (it) f Polish: kadź (pl) f Swedish: skänk (sv) c

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Chinese: Min Nan: (please verify) 桸 (zh-min-nan) (hia)

Verb

ladle (third-person singular simple present ladles, present participle ladling, simple past and past participle ladled)

1. (transitive) To pour or serve something with a ladle.

   One worker ladled molten steel into the shot sleeve.

   The host ladled the soup into her guests' bowls.

Translations

serve with a ladle

Bulgarian: греба (bg) (greba), загребвам (bg) (zagrebvam) Chinese: Cantonese: 𢳂 (yue) (bat1) Mandarin: 盛 (zh) (chéng) Dutch: opscheppen (nl), inscheppen, opdienen (nl) Finnish: kauhoa (fi) Icelandic: ausa Macedonian: цр́пи (cŕpi), нацр́пува (nacŕpuva) Manx: lheegh Maori: kōtutu, tīkoko Spanish: vertir

References

1. Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “ladle”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
2. http://www.yourdictionary.com/ladle

Anagrams

• Adell, Della