spatula

Etymology
Borrowed from, the diminutive form of , from. ; compare and.

Noun

 * 1)  A kitchen utensil consisting of a flat surface attached to a long handle, used for turning, lifting, or stirring food.
 * 2)  A kitchen utensil consisting of a flexible surface attached to a long handle, used for scraping the sides of bowls.
 * 3)  A palette knife.
 * 4)  A thin hand tool, often made of nickel, for handling chemicals or other materials, when weighing, etc.
 * 5) A croupier's tool for turning up cards in a casino.
 * 6)  A sclerotized, T-shaped plate in the prothorax of larvae of flies belonging to family Cecidomyiidae, the gall midges.
 * 1) A croupier's tool for turning up cards in a casino.
 * 2)  A sclerotized, T-shaped plate in the prothorax of larvae of flies belonging to family Cecidomyiidae, the gall midges.
 * 1)  A sclerotized, T-shaped plate in the prothorax of larvae of flies belonging to family Cecidomyiidae, the gall midges.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: مِلْعَقَةُ الصَيْدَلِيِّ
 * Gulf Arabic: ملاس
 * Armenian: բահիկ
 * Belarusian: лапатка, лапатачка
 * Bengali: কাফগীর
 * Brunei Malay: sinduk
 * Bulgarian: шпатула
 * Catalan:, ,
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 鑊鏟
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: obracečka
 * Danish: palet, paletkniv
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: truleto, spatelo
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: espátula
 * Gallo: palitchette
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: spadal
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, スパーテル, フライ返し
 * Khmer: វែកកូរ
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Latin: spatula, rutabulum
 * Macedonian: ло́патче
 * Malay: sudip
 * Maori: koko
 * Middle English: sclise
 * Mongolian:
 * Navajo: bee náʼayooʼniłí
 * Norwegian: stekespade
 * Ottoman Turkish: مابلاق
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Scheppelkje
 * Polish: łopatka kuchenna, szpatułka kuchenna
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: espatula
 * Tajik:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: шпа́тель
 * Vietnamese: dao bay, que phết
 * Yiddish: שפּאַטל


 * Danish: palet, paletkniv
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * German: Spachtelmesser
 * Italian:, ,
 * Ottoman Turkish: مابلاق
 * Tagalog: espatula


 * Belarusian: шпатэль
 * Bulgarian: шпатула
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish: spatel


 * French: (3)
 * Italian: (1,2,3)

Verb

 * 1)  To lift with or as if with a spatula.
 * 2)  To strike with a spatula.
 * 1)  To strike with a spatula.
 * 1)  To strike with a spatula.
 * 1)  To strike with a spatula.

Etymology
Diminutive from.

Noun

 * 1) a broad, flat piece.
 * spatula porcina — "leg of pork".
 * 1) a little palm frond.
 * 2)  a scapula (shoulder blade).
 * 3)  a spoon or spatula (kitchenware).

Descendants

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