refrigerator

refrigerator

English

Etymology

From refrigerate +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈfɹɪd͡ʒəˌɹeɪtə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈfɹɪd͡ʒəˌɹeɪɾɚ/, /ɹəˈfɹɪd͡ʒəˌɹeɪɾɚ/

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Noun

refrigerator (plural refrigerators)

An open refrigerator

1. A household appliance used for keeping food fresh by refrigeration (short form fridge).
   • 1868, Alcott, Louisa May, Little Women, ch. 11:

     Jo uttered a groan and fell back in her chair, remembering that she had given a last hasty powdering to the berries out of one of the two boxes on the kitchen table, and had neglected to put the milk in the refrigerator.

   • 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist‎, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):

     An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.

2. A similar device used to keep non-food items cold, such as blood, photographic film, drugs, or pharmaceuticals like insulin.
3. One who has a chilling influence.
   • 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, OCLC 999756093:

     […] in a state of sublime satisfaction, he moves among the company, a magnificent refrigerator.

Synonyms

• chiller
• coolchest
• fridge, frigerator
• icebox

Derived terms

Terms derived from refrigerator

• refrigerator-freezer
• refrigerator mom
• refrigerator mother
• refrigerator pie

Related terms

Terms etymologically related to refrigerator

• fridge
• fridge-freezer
• refrigerate
• refrigeration

Descendants

• → Cebuano: ripridyiritor
• → Malayalam: റഫ്രിജറേറ്റർ (ṟafrijaṟēṟṟaṟ)

Translations

appliance

Abkhaz: архьшәашәага (arxʲŝʷaŝʷaga) Afrikaans: yskas Albanian: frigorifer (sq) m Amis: pinsyang Arabic: ثَلَّاجَة‎ (ar) f (ṯallāja) Algerian Arabic: فريجدار‎ North Levantine Arabic: براد‎ m (barrād) South Levantine Arabic: تلاجة‎ (tallāje) Armenian: սառնարան (hy) (saṙnaran) Aromanian: frigurifer Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܬܲܠܵܓܵܐ‎ m (tāllaga) Asturian: nevera (ast) f, ñevera (ast) f Azerbaijani: soyuducu (az) Bashkir: һыуытҡыс (hıwıtqıs) Basque: hozkailu (eu) Belarusian: халадзі́льнік m (xaladzílʹnik) Bengali: ফ্রিজ (phrij) Breton: yenerez Bulgarian: хлади́лник (bg) m (hladílnik) Burmese: ရေခဲသေတ္တာ (my) (rehkai:setta) Catalan: frigorífic (ca) m, nevera (ca) f Chechen: шелиг (šelig) Cherokee: ᎠᏴᏜᏗᏍᏗᏍᎩ (ayvdladisdisgi) Chickasaw: aakapassachi', aakapassali' Chinese: Cantonese: 雪櫃, 雪柜 (yue) (syut3 gwai6) Dungan: бинщён (binxi͡on) Hakka: 冰箱 (pên-siông) Mandarin: 冰箱 (zh) (bīngxiāng), 冰櫥／冰橱 (zh) (bīngchú) (Malaysia, Singapore) Min Dong: 冰箱 (bĭng-siŏng) Min Nan: 冰箱 (zh-min-nan) (peng-siuⁿ / peng-sioⁿ), 冰櫥, 冰橱 (peng-tû) Wu: 冰箱 (pin xian) Czech: lednice (cs) f, chladnička (cs) f, lednička (cs) f Danish: køleskab (da) n Dhivehi: އައިސްއަލަމާރި‎ (aisalamāri) Dutch: koelkast (nl) f, ijskast (nl) f, frigo (nl) m Esperanto: malvarmujo, fridujo Estonian: külmik, külmutuskapp Faroese: køliskáp n Finnish: jääkaappi (fi) French: réfrigérateur (fr) m, frigo (fr) m (colloquial) Galician: neveira (gl) f, frigorífico (gl) m, refrixerador (gl) m Georgian: მაცივარი (macivari) German: Kühlschrank (de) m, Kühlraum (de) m (large), Eiskasten (de) m (Austria), Frigidaire (de) m (Austria, obsolete) Greek: ψυγείο (el) n (psygeío) Greenlandic: nillataartitsivik Gujarati: શીતપેટી (śītpeṭī) Hawaiian: pahu hau Hebrew: מְקָרֵר‎ (he) m (m'karér) Hindi: फ़्रिज (frij), फ्रिज (phrij), प्रशीतित्र (praśītitra) Hungarian: hűtőszekrény (hu), fridzsider (hu) Icelandic: kæliskápur (is) m, ísskápur (is) m Ido: frigorizilo (io), frigorizivo (io) Indonesian: kulkas (id), lemari es (id), lemari pendingin (id), peti es (id) Ingush: шелду (šeldu) Irish: cuisneoir (ga) m Italian: frigorifero (it) m, frigo (it) m Japanese: 冷蔵庫 (ja) (れいぞうこ, reizōko) Kannada: ಶೀತಕಯಂತ್ರ (kn) (śītakayantra) Kazakh: тоңазытқыш (kk) (toñazytqyş), мұздатқыш (kk) (mūzdatqyş) Khmer: ទូទឹកកក (tuu tɨk kɑɑk) Korean: 냉장고(冷藏庫) (ko) (naengjanggo), 랭장고 (raengjanggo) (North Korea) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: sarinc (ku) Kutenai: k̓isqat̕imaⱡ k̓ikiⱡ Kyrgyz: муздаткыч (ky) (muzdatkıç) Ladino: frijider Lao: ຕູ້ເຢັນ (lo) (tū yen) Latin: armārium frīgidārium n Latvian: ledusskapis m Lithuanian: šaldytuvas m Macedonian: ладилник m (ladilnik), фрижиде́р m (frižidér) Malay: peti ais (ms), peti sejuk (ms) Malayalam: ശീതീകരണയന്ത്രം (śītīkaraṇayantraṃ), ശീതീകരണി (śītīkaraṇi), റഫ്രിജറേറ്റർ (ṟafrijaṟēṟṟaṟ), ഫ്രിഡ്ജ് (friḍjŭ) Maltese: friġġ m Manx: feayreyder Maori: pākatio, whiriti Marathi: शीतकपाट (śītakpāṭ), शीतपेटी (śītpeṭī), फ्रिज (phrij) Minjungbal: waring bin Mongolian: хөргөгч (mn) (xörgögč), хөргүүр (mn) (xörgüür) Navajo: bee azkʼazí, biiʼazkʼazí Norman: frigo m Northern Sami: galbmaskábe Norwegian: kjøleskap (no) n Occitan: refrigerador (oc) Pashto: يخچال‎ (ps) m (yaxčãl), يخوونکی‎ m (yaxawúnkay), کنګلځی‎ m (kangaljáy) Persian: یخچال‎ (fa) (yaxčâl) Polish: lodówka (pl) f, chłodziarka (pl) f Portuguese: geladeira (pt) f (Brazil), frigorífico (pt) m (Portugal) Romanian: frigider (ro) Russian: холоди́льник (ru) m (xolodílʹnik), рефрижера́тор (ru) m (refrižerátor) (large or industrial) Samoan: please add this translation if you can Sanskrit: शीतकम् (śītakam) Scottish Gaelic: fionnaradair m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: хла̑дња̄к m, фрижѝде̄р m Roman: hlȃdnjāk (sh) m, frižìdēr (sh) m Sindhi: فرج‎ Sinhalese: ශීතකරණය (śītakaraṇaya) Slovak: ľadnička f Slovene: hladilnik (sl) m Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: chłoźeca spižka f, chłodnik m Upper Sorbian: chłódźak m Southern Sami: jueskiedahke Spanish: (Spain) frigorífico (es) m, (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay) heladera (es) f, (Colombia, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Venezuela - regional usage in Spain) nevera (es) f, (Bolivia, Chile, Cuba, Mexico) refrigerador (es) m, (Central America, Ecuador, Peru) refrigeradora (es) f, (Cuba, colloquial) frío (es) m Swahili: jokofu (sw), friji (sw), mashine ya barafu Swedish: kylskåp (sv) n Tagalog: repriherador, palamigan, ref Tajik: хунуккунак (xunukkunak), яхчол (yaxčol) Tatar: суыткыч (tt) (suıtkıç) Tetum: frigorífiku Thai: ตู้เย็น (th) (dtûu-yen) Tibetan: འཁྱགས་སྒམ ('khyags sgam) Tongan: ʻaisi Turkish: buzdolabı (tr), (obsolete) frijider (tr) Turkmen: holodilnik, sowadyjy Tuvan: соодукчу (soodukçu) Ukrainian: холоди́льник m (xolodýlʹnyk) Urdu: سرد خانہ‎ (sard xānā), فرج‎ (frij) Uyghur: توڭلاتقۇ‎ (tonglatqu) Uzbek: muzlatgich, xolodilnik (uz) Vietnamese: tủ lạnh (vi) Volapük: gladaramar Walloon: frigo (wa) Welsh: oergell (cy) f White Hmong: tub yees Wolof: firisideer bi Yakut: сойутар (soyutar) Yiddish: פֿרידזשידער‎ m (fridzhider), קעלטערער‎ m (kelterer), אײַזקאַסטן‎ m (ayzkastn) Yup'ik: kumlivik Zhuang: binghsiengh

See also

• cooler
• freezer
• icebox

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Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /re.friː.ɡeˈraː.tor/, [rɛfriːɡɛˈräːt̪ɔr]

• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /re.fri.d͡ʒeˈra.tor/, [refrid͡ʒeˈräːt̪or]

Verb

refrīgerātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of refrīgerō

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Romanian

Etymology

From French réfrigérateur. Equivalent to refrigera +‎ -tor.

Noun

refrigerator n (plural refrigeratoare)

1. refrigerator

   Synonym: frigider

Declension

Declension of refrigerator

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) refrigerator	refrigeratorul	(niște) refrigeratoare	refrigeratoarele
genitive/dative	(unui) refrigerator	refrigeratorului	(unor) refrigeratoare	refrigeratoarelor
vocative	refrigeratorule		refrigeratoarelor