Traste

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This is a discussion thread for the Daily Spanish Word for May 2, 2008

traste - masculine noun (el), plate, dish, container; in plural it means 'dishes' in a general sense. 'Trasto' is also used in some areas.. Look up traste in the dictionary

Por favor, lava los trastes cuando hayas terminado de comer.
Please wash the dishes when you're finished with your lunch.

[Rusty]

Lavar los platos and fregar los platos also work.

[Tomisimo]

Originally Posted by Rusty

Lavar los platos and fregar los platos also work.

True, but I think that's a bit more specific, referring more to washing plates, not all the dishes in general. But of course I'm open to corrections.

Also, in Mexico, they use trastes. If I remember right, in Costa Rica they say trastos. Does anyone know about other countries?

[Rusty]

I've never heard trastes or trastos used for dishes. The dictionaries I look at don't give dishes as a possible translation.

[Rusty]

It looks like vajilla or cubierto could be used, too.

Dishwasher = lavaplatos or fregadero

[poli]

Has anyone ever heard trinches
instead of tenedores?

[Rusty]

Originally Posted by poli

Has anyone ever heard trinches
instead of tenedores?

I haven't. The RAE says it is used in Honduras, but I don't remember hearing it. It is also used in Mexico, El Salvador, and the Andes, according to the RAE.

More words for a dishwasher: lavavajillas, friegaplatos, and ...
... lavatrastes (I've also found lavar los trastes, but it appears to be used only in Mexico and Guatemala).

[Tomisimo]

In Mexico:

traste - any dish, plate, cup, jar, container, pots and pans etc-- 'trastes' = 'the dishes' I'm pretty sure in Costa Rica, they use trasto/trastos in the same fashion.
vajilla - china set, set of dishes, set of dinnerware etc. (eg. a set of 4 dinner plates, 4 salad plates, 4 bowls, 4 mugs)
cubierto - 'cubierto' can be a table knife (also cuchillo), 'los cubiertos' is silverware or flatware-- eg. knife, fork, spoon, salad fork etc.
dishwasher-- (machine, not the person) lavaplatos, lavavajillas
fregadero-- kitchen sink.

[Tomisimo]

Originally Posted by poli

Has anyone ever heard trinches
instead of tenedores?

Never heard that, and I'm pretty familiar with Mexican Spanish. Have you heard it used somewhere?

Note that traste also means fret-- as in a guitar fret.

[Alfonso]

In Spain you wouldn't be understood if you say trastes for dishes, or trinches for forks.
We say: lavar los platos, lavar los cacharros; tenedores.

I had never heard of these words.