strainer

English

A kitchen strainer (1).

A sink strainer (2).

From Middle English strener, streynour, strenyour, equivalent to strain +‎ -er.

strainer (plural strainers)

A device through which a liquid is passed for purification, filtering or separation from solid matter; anything (including a screen or a cloth) used to strain a liquid.
Synonym: sile
A perforated screen or openwork (usually at the end of a suction pipe of a pump), used to prevent solid bodies from mixing in a liquid stream or flowline.
One who strains.
- 2008, Kirby I. Bland, Michael G. Sarr, Markus W. Büchler, General Surgery: Principles and International Practice, page 843:
  An important factor with respect to recurrence [of rectal prolapse] is the fact that many of these patients are chronic strainers.

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Bikol Central: sernian
Bulgarian: цедка (bg) f (cedka)
Catalan: colador (ca) m
Chinese:
Dutch: filter (nl) m or n, vergiet (nl) n
Esperanto: kribrilo (eo)
Finnish: siivilä (fi)
French: filtre (fr) m
Georgian: თუშფალანგი (tušpalangi)
German: Sieb (de) n; Durchschlag (de) m
Icelandic: sigti n
Irish: síothlán m
Italian: colino (it) m, colatoio m
Japanese: 濾過器 (ja) (ろかき, rokaki), ストレーナー (sutorēnā)
Latin: cōlum n
Malayalam: അരിപ്പ (ml) (arippa)
Mandarin: 濾器 (zh), 滤器 (zh) (lǜqì), 過濾器 (zh), 过滤器 (zh) (guòlǜqì), 網濾, 网滤 (wǎnglǜ), 笊籬 (zh) (zhàoli)
Maori: tātari
Occitan: filtre (oc) m, colador m, mancha (oc) f
Persian: ماشوب‎ (māšub)
Plautdietsch: Säw n
Polish: sito (pl) n, cedzak (pl) m
Portuguese: peneira (pt) f
Romanian: strecurătoare (ro) f
Russian: си́то (ru) n (síto), фильтр (ru) m (filʹtr), си́течко (ru) n (sítečko) (small one, e.g. tea strainer), дуршла́г (ru) m (duršlág) (colander)
Scottish Gaelic: sìoltachan m
Serbo-Croatian: цедило n, cedilo (sh) n, цједило n, cjedilo (sh) n
Slovak: sito (sk) n, cedidlo n
Spanish: colador (es) m, filtro (es) m
Swedish: sil (sv) c, filter (sv) n, durkslag (sv) n, sikt (sv) c
Tagalog: salaan
Turkish: süzgeç (tr)
Waray-Waray: saraan