colador

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ku.ləˈðo]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ko.ləˈðo]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ko.laˈðoɾ]

Noun

colador m (plural coladors)

1. sieve
   • 2002, Albert Sánchez Piñol, chapter 4, in La pell freda, La Campana, →ISBN:

     La porta es va convertir en un colador. Se n'havien anat però jo continuava disparant.

     The door was being reduced to a sieve. They were gone, but I continued firing.

2. colander

Spanish

Etymology

From colar +‎ -dor. Compare Portuguese coador.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kolaˈdoɾ/ [ko.laˈð̞oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: co‧la‧dor

Noun

colador m (plural coladores)

1. sieve (only the strainer kind of sifter, not the cup-shaped sifter)
2. colander

   Synonyms: escurridor, coladero

Related terms

• coladero
• colar

Further reading

• “colador”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10