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cooking oil

cooking oil noun: a purified fat taken from plant material that is commonly used in cooking, e.g. olive oil, canola oil, sunflower oil, etc.

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Noun

cooking oil (countable and uncountable, plural cooking oils)

A purified fat taken from plant material that is commonly used in cooking, e.g. olive oil, canola oil, sunflower oil, etc.

cooking oil meaning in Punjabi, Pashto, Arabic and Malay

cooking oil in Punjabi

cooking oil, oil: تھندا thindā

cooking oil in Pashto

cooking oil: غوړي ǧwaṛi

cooking oil in Arabic

purified fat: زَيْت اَلْطَهِي zayt al-ṭahī

cooking oil in Malay

purified fat: minyak masak

More languagesFewer languages

cooking oil in Indonesian: minyak goreng
cooking oil in Thai: น้ำมันประกอบอาหาร nám-man-bprà-gɔ̀ɔp-aa-hǎan
cooking oil in Vietnamese: dầu ăn

Forms of cooking oil

plural	cooking oils

Questions about cooking oil

What does cooking oil mean?: Cooking oil means a purified fat taken from plant material that is commonly used in cooking, e.g. olive oil, canola oil, sunflower oil, etc.
What is cooking oil in Punjabi?: Cooking oil in Punjabi is تھندا (thindā). See Cooking oil meaning in Punjabi.
What part of speech is cooking oil?: Cooking oil is a noun.
What is the plural of cooking oil?: The plural of cooking oil is cooking oils.

Words near cooking oil in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: cooking oil (page history and authors); تھندا (Punjabi) (page history and authors); غوړي (Pashto) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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