grate

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• grāt
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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹeɪt/
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• British, Southern, Standard: /ˈɡɹɛjt/
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• Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈɡɹæɪt/
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• Scotland: /ˈɡɾet/
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• Wales: /ˈɡɾeːt/ without the pane–pain merger
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• homophone: great
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• rhymes with -eɪt
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• CMU ARPABET: G R EY1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Latin grātus (“agreeable”).

From Middle English grate, from a Medieval Latin crāta, from a Latin word for a hurdle; or Italian grata, from Latin cratis.

From Middle English graten, from Old French grater (“to scrape”) ( > French gratter), from Frankish *krattōn, from Proto-Germanic *krattōną. Cognate with Old High German krazzon ( > German kratzen (“to scrawl”) > Danish kradse), Icelandic krassa (“to scrawl”) and Danish kratte.

97 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: ска́ра (skára) — horizontal metal grill
• Bulgarian: реше́тка (rešétka) — horizontal metal grill
• Catalan: morrió — horizontal metal grill
• Chinese Mandarin: 爐架 /炉架 (lújià) — horizontal metal grill
• Chinese Mandarin: 箅子 (bìzi) — horizontal metal grill
• Dutch: rooster — horizontal metal grill
• Finnish: ritilä — horizontal metal grill
• Finnish: arina — horizontal metal grill
• Galician: grade — horizontal metal grill
• German: Rost — horizontal metal grill
• German: Gitter — horizontal metal grill
• Hawaiian: hao hakahaka — horizontal metal grill
• Hawaiian: hao manamana — horizontal metal grill
• Hungarian: rács — horizontal metal grill
• Hungarian: rácsozat — horizontal metal grill
• Hungarian: rostély — horizontal metal grill
• Italian: grata — horizontal metal grill
• Latin: cancellī — horizontal metal grill
• Latin: clāthrī — horizontal metal grill
• Māori: mātiti — horizontal metal grill
• Plautdietsch: Hieet — horizontal metal grill
• Polish: krata — horizontal metal grill
• Portuguese: grade — horizontal metal grill
• Russian: решётка (rešótka) — horizontal metal grill
• Russian: се́тка (sétka) — horizontal metal grill
• Scottish Gaelic: cliath-theine — horizontal metal grill
• Spanish: rejilla — horizontal metal grill
• Turkish: ızgara — horizontal metal grill
• Bulgarian: скара (skara) — frame or bed for holding fuel
• Afrikaans: rasper — cooking: to shred by rubbing
• Arabic: بَشَر (bašar) — cooking: to shred by rubbing
• Azerbaijani: sürtmək — cooking: to shred by rubbing
• Bashkir: ҡырыу (qırıw) — cooking: to shred by rubbing
• Bulgarian: стържа (stǎrža) — cooking: to shred by rubbing
• Bulgarian: настъргвам (nastǎrgvam) — cooking: to shred by rubbing
• Danish: rive — cooking: to shred by rubbing
• Dutch: raspen — cooking: to shred by rubbing
• Dutch: malen — cooking: to shred by rubbing
• Esperanto: raspi — cooking: to shred by rubbing
• Finnish: raastaa — cooking: to shred by rubbing
• French: râper — cooking: to shred by rubbing
• German: reiben — cooking: to shred by rubbing
• Greek: τρίβω (trívo) — cooking: to shred by rubbing
• Mbya Guarani: kyty — cooking: to shred by rubbing
• Hungarian: reszel — cooking: to shred by rubbing
• Hungarian: lereszel — cooking: to shred by rubbing
• Ingrian: törkätä — cooking: to shred by rubbing
• Italian: grattuggiare — cooking: to shred by rubbing
• Lithuanian: tarkuoti — cooking: to shred by rubbing
• Macedonian: ренда (renda) — cooking: to shred by rubbing
• Māori: waru — cooking: to shred by rubbing
• Māori: waruwaru — cooking: to shred by rubbing
• Māori: kukū — cooking: to shred by rubbing
• Māori: pākēkē — cooking: to shred by rubbing
• Māori: pakepakē — cooking: to shred by rubbing
• Māori: roroi — cooking: to shred by rubbing
• Norwegian: rive — cooking: to shred by rubbing
• Norwegian: raspe — cooking: to shred by rubbing
• Portuguese: ralar — cooking: to shred by rubbing
• Romanian: rade — cooking: to shred by rubbing
• Russian: тере́ть (terétʹ) — cooking: to shred by rubbing
• Russian: натира́ть (natirátʹ) — cooking: to shred by rubbing
• Russian: натере́ть (naterétʹ) — cooking: to shred by rubbing
• Spanish: rallar — cooking: to shred by rubbing
• Spanish: guayar — cooking: to shred by rubbing
• Swahili: kuna — cooking: to shred by rubbing
• Swedish: riva — cooking: to shred by rubbing
• Tamil: துருவு (turuvu) — cooking: to shred by rubbing
• Turkish: rendelemek — cooking: to shred by rubbing
• Ukrainian: те́рти (térty) — cooking: to shred by rubbing
• Ukrainian: натира́ти (natyráty) — cooking: to shred by rubbing
• Ukrainian: нате́рти (natérty) — cooking: to shred by rubbing
• Yiddish: צערײַבן (tseraybn) — cooking: to shred by rubbing
• Yiddish: רײַבן (raybn) — cooking: to shred by rubbing
• Bulgarian: скърцам (skǎrcam) — to make an unpleasant rasping sound
• Finnish: narskua — to make an unpleasant rasping sound
• Finnish: narista — to make an unpleasant rasping sound
• Finnish: kitistä — to make an unpleasant rasping sound
• Hungarian: csikorog — to make an unpleasant rasping sound
• Hungarian: nyikorog — to make an unpleasant rasping sound
• Ingrian: korskaa — to make an unpleasant rasping sound
• Ingrian: narskaa — to make an unpleasant rasping sound
• Italian: stridere — to make an unpleasant rasping sound
• Māori: ngākeke — to make an unpleasant rasping sound
• Māori: tiotio — to make an unpleasant rasping sound
• Māori: pakakū — to make an unpleasant rasping sound
• Māori: kakū — to make an unpleasant rasping sound
• Māori: kukū — to make an unpleasant rasping sound
• Spanish: rechinar — to make an unpleasant rasping sound
• Swedish: gnissla — to make an unpleasant rasping sound
• Bulgarian: дразня (draznja) — to grate on one's nerves, irritate
• Dutch: op de zenuwen werken — to grate on one's nerves, irritate
• Dutch: irriteren — to grate on one's nerves, irritate
• Dutch: vervelen — to grate on one's nerves, irritate
• Finnish: raastaa — to grate on one's nerves, irritate
• Finnish: ärsyttää — to grate on one's nerves, irritate
• Swahili: kuna — to grate on one's nerves, irritate