Grater

Grat′er

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Adj.

[From Qrate, v.]

One who, or that which, grates; especially, an instrument or utensil with a rough, indented surface, for rubbing off small particles of any substance;

as a

grater

for nutmegs

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Grater

GRA'TER

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Noun.

[See Grate.] An instrument or utensil with a rough indented surface, for rubbing off small particles of a body; as a grater for nutmegs.

grater

See also: gråter

English

A grater.

Noun

grater ‎(plural graters)

A tool with which one grates, especially cheese, to facilitate getting small particles or shreds off a solid lump.
I'm making coleslaw; do you know where the grater is?

Translations

A tool with which one grates

Azeri: rəndə (az)
Belarusian: тарка f ‎(tárka)
Bulgarian: ренде n ‎(rende), стъргало (bg) n ‎(stǎrgalo)
Catalan: ratllador
Chinese:

Mandarin: 礤床 (zh) ‎(cāchuáng), 擦子 ‎(cāzi), 擦菜板 ‎(cācàibǎn)

Min Nan: 菜礤 (zh-min-nan)
Czech: struhadlo (cs) n
Danish: rivejern (da)
Dutch: rasp (nl)
Esperanto: kuireja raspilo
Estonian: riiv
Faroese: rívijarn n
Finnish: riivinrauta (fi), raastinrauta (fi), raastin
French: râpe (fr) f
Georgian: სახეხელა ‎(saxexela)
German: Reibe (de) f, Küchenreibe (de) f
Greek: τρίφτης (el) ‎(tríftis)
Hebrew: פומפייה (he)
Hindi: कद्दूकस ‎(kaddūkas)
Icelandic: rifjárn n
Italian: grattugia (it) f
Japanese: 卸し金 ‎(おろしがね, oroshigane)
Norman: grattise f
Kazakh: турауыш ‎(twrawış)
Korean: 강판 ‎(gangpan)
Kurdish:
Kurmanji: rêşker
Latin: radula f

Lithuanian: trintuvė
Luxembourgish: Rapp
Macedonian: ренде n ‎(rende)
Maltese: ħakkieka f
Norwegian:

Bokmål: rivjern n

Nynorsk: rivjarn n, rivjern n
Persian: رنده (fa) ‎(rande)
Polish: tarka (pl) f
Portuguese: ralador (pt) m
Romanian:
Russian: тёрка (ru) f ‎(tjórka)
Samogitian: tarka
Scottish Gaelic: sgrìoban m
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: ренде n, треница f

Roman: rende (sh) n, trenica (sh) f
Sicilian: grattalora (scn)
Slovak: strúhadlo n, strúhatko n
Slovene: rende n
Spanish: rallador (es) m, ralladora (es) f
Swedish: rivjärn (sv)
Tagalog: gadgaran
Tatar: угыч (tt) ‎(uğıç), кыргыч (tt) ‎(qırgıç)
Turkish: rende (tr)
Ukrainian: те́рка f ‎(térka)
Vietnamese: bàn mài
Waray-Waray: kaguran
Yiddish: ריב אייזן ‎(rib eyzn)

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Old French

Alternative forms

gratter

Etymology

Borrowing from Frankish *krattōn, from Proto-Germanic *krattōną.

Verb

grater

to scrape (come intophysical contact with in a way that causes damage)

Descendants

English: grate (borrowed)
French: gratter
Norman: gratter
Walloon: greter

Derived terms

gratier
grateor

References

(fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (grater, supplement)

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