salt shaker

See also: saltshaker

English

Alternative forms

• saltshaker

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɔltˌʃeɪkɚ/
• Rhymes: -eɪkə(ɹ)

Noun

salt shaker (plural salt shakers)

2. A small container designed to hold salt and facilitate sprinkling it on food for seasoning purposes.

   Synonym: Lot's wife (humorous)

   Hypernyms: shaker < dispenser

   Coordinate terms: pepper shaker, peppershaker, pepper mill, peppermill

   Near-synonym: salt cellar

   • 1995, Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys, Ch.1, at p.4:

     So she cut the crusts from a pair of chicken sandwiches and set them on a tray along with a saltshaker, a white peach, and a King James bible, and I climbed the stairs to his room.

Related terms

• salt substitute
• table salt

Translations

a small container designed to hold salt and facilitate sprinkling — see also salt cellar

• Afrikaans: soutstrooier
• Arabic: رَشَّاشَةْ الْمِلْح f (raššāšat al-milḥ)

  Egyptian Arabic: مَلَّاحَة f

  Moroccan Arabic: ملاحة f (mallāḥa)

  South Levantine Arabic: مملحة f (mamlaḥa)

  Tunisian Arabic: مَلّاَحَةْ (mallaḥa)

• Armenian: աղաման (hy) (aġaman)
• Asturian: saleru m
• Azerbaijani: duzqabı, nəməkdan
• Basque: gatzontzi
• Bulgarian: солница (bg) f (solnica), солник m (solnik)
• Catalan: saler (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鹽瓶 / 盐瓶 (zh) (yánpíng)

• Czech: slánka (cs) f, solnička (cs) f
• Danish: saltbøsse (da) c
• Dutch: zoutvaatje (nl)
• Emilian: salèin m, salarôl m (Bolognese), salén m (Modenese)
• Esperanto: salujo
• Estonian: soolatoos
• Finnish: suolasirotin (fi)
• French: salière (fr) f
• Galician: saleiro (gl) m
• Georgian: სამარილე (ka) (samarile)
• German: Salzstreuer (de) m, Salzfässchen (de) n
• Greek: αλατιέρα (el) f (alatiéra)
• Hebrew: מלחייה \ מִלְחִיָּה (he) f (milkhiyá)
• Hungarian: sótartó (hu), sószóró (hu)
• Ido: saluyo (io)
• Irish: sáiltéar m
• Italian: saliera (it) f, spargisale (it) m
• Japanese: 塩入れ (しおいれ, shioire)
• Kashubian: solnica f
• Komi:

  Komi-Permyak: совдоз (sovdoz)

• Korean: 소금통 (sogeumtong), 소금병 (sogeumbyeong)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: خوێدان (xwêdan)

• Latin: salīnum n
• Lithuanian: druskinė
• Macedonian: соларник m (solarnik)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: saltbøsse m or f

  Nynorsk: saltbøsse f, saltbørse f

• Persian: نمکدان (fa) (namakdân)
• Plautdietsch: Soltstreia m
• Polish: solniczka (pl) f
• Portuguese: saleiro (pt) m
• Romanian: solniță (ro) f
• Romansh: salarin m
• Russian: соло́нка (ru) f (solónka)
• Samogitian: droskėnė
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сланик m, соланик m, тузлук m

  Latin: slanik (sh) m, solanik m, tuzluk (sh) m

• Slovak: soľnička f
• Spanish: salero (es) m, potorro (es) m (Spain), potorro salino m
• Swedish: saltkar (sv) n, saltströare (sv) c
• Turkish: tuzluk (tr)
• Ukrainian: сільни́чка f (silʹnýčka), сільни́ця f (silʹnýcja), соля́нка f (soljánka) (rare)
• Vietnamese: ^{(please verify)} lọ rắc muối
• Walloon: sånî (wa) m

See also

• caster (sometimes hypernymous)
• cruet (sometimes hypernymous)

Further reading

• salt shaker on Wikipedia.Wikipedia