mortar and pestle

English

A mortar and pestle.

Alternative forms

• pestle and mortar

Noun

mortar and pestle (plural mortars and pestles)

1. A device made up of a bowl (the mortar) and a heavy, blunt object (the pestle), the end of which is used for crushing and grinding ingredients or substances into a fine paste or powder.

   Synonym: mortar

Usage notes

• Used with both singular and plural verbs.

Hyponyms

• ghani

Translations

device used for crushing and grinding ingredients into a fine paste or powder

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 研缽和研杵 / 研钵和研杵 (yánbō hé yánchǔ), 杵臼 (chǔjiù), 磨缽 / 磨钵 (móbō), 搗藥盅 / 捣药盅 (dǎoyàozhōng)

• Danish: morter (da)
• Dutch: vijzel (nl) m
• Esperanto: pistilo kaj pistujo
• Finnish: huhmar (fi)
• French: mortier et pilon m
• German: Mörser und Stößel
• Hungarian: mozsár (hu) mozsártörővel (hu)
• Indonesian: lesung dan alu
• Malay: lesung dan alu
• Marathi: खलबत्ता m (khalbattā)
• Portuguese: pilão (pt)
• Romanian: mojar cu pistil
• Russian: пестик и ступа (pestik i stupa)
• Spanish: mortero y machaca, almirez y maja, pilón y machacadera, molcajete y tejolote (Mexico)