No, you may not put the colander on your head; you can be an astronaut after I drain the pasta.
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Colander
//ˈkɑləndɚ//
Synonyms for "colander" (32 found)
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Closest matches (7)
Strong matches (9)
Related words (16)
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Translations
87 translations across 50 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- مِصْفَاة noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
Armenian
2 entries- քամիչ noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
- քամոց noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- kəfgir noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
- süzgəc noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
Belarusian
1 entries- друшля́к noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
Bulgarian
2 entries- гевгир noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
- решето noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
Catalan
1 entries- escorredora noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 漉鍋 /漉锅 noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
- 漏勺 noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
- 濾器 /滤器 noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
Czech
2 entries- cedník noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
- řešeto noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
Danish
1 entries- dørslag noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
Dutch
2 entries- vergiet noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
- verzijp noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
Fijian
1 entries- lawalawa noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
Finnish
1 entries- lävikkö noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
French
1 entries- passoire noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
Georgian
1 entries- თუშფალანგი noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
German
4 entries- Abtropfsieb noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
- Durchschlag noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
- Fättere noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
- Küchensieb noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
Greek
2 entries- σουρωτήρι noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
- τρυπητό noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
Hindi
1 entries- कोलंडर noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
Hungarian
3 entries- szűrő noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
- szűrőedény noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
- tésztaszűrő noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
Icelandic
2 entries- dörslag noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
- sigti noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
Indonesian
1 entries- penapis noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
Irish
1 entries- síothlán noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
Italian
3 entries- colabrodo noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
- colapasta noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
- colino noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
Japanese
2 entries- コランダー noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
- 水切りボール noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
Korean
1 entries- 소쿠리 noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
Latin
1 entries- cōlum noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
Macedonian
1 entries- цедалка noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
Malay
1 entries- penapis noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
Māori
2 entries- kumete tātari noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
- tātari noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
Norman
1 entries- coul'rêsse noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
Norwegian
1 entries- dørslag noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- سوزكج noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
- مصفات noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
Persian
1 entries- آبکش noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
Plautdietsch
2 entries- Derchschlach noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
- Säw noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
Polish
2 entries- cedzak noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
- durszlak noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
Portuguese
3 entries- coador noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
- escorredor noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
- passador noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
Romanian
1 entries- strecurătoare noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
Russian
1 entries- дуршла́г noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- sìoltachan noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- cedilo noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
- cjedilo noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
- đevđir noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
- цедило noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
Sicilian
1 entries- scolapasta noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
Slovak
2 entries- cedidlo noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
- cedák noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
Slovene
1 entries- cedilo noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
Spanish
4 entries- coladero noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
- colador noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
- escurridor noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
- zafra noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
Swedish
1 entries- durkslag noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
Tibetan
1 entries- ཚག noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
Turkish
2 entries- kevgir noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
- süzgeç noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
Ukrainian
1 entries- друшля́к noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
Uzbek
1 entries- chovli noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
Vietnamese
1 entries- giá lọc noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
Welsh
3 entries- colandr noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
- hidl noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
- hidlwr noun (a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
Drain the pasta into the colander.
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Let it drain in a colander.
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I have to buy a new colander.
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