colador
Catalan
Pronunciation
Noun
colador m (plural coladors)
- 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.
- 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)
- sieve (only the strainer kind of sifter, not the cup-shaped sifter)
- colander
- Synonyms: escurridor, coladero
Related terms
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], 10 December 2024