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frying pan

frying pan noun: a long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food.

frying pan: a long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
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Noun

frying pan (plural frying pans)

  1. A long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food.
    • And if thy oblation be a meate offering baken in the frying pan,it ſhalbe made of fine flowꝛe with oyle.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Leviticus 2:7
    Synonyms:
    fry pan, frypan, pan, skillet

Proper noun capitalized: Frying Pan

Frying Pan

  1. A locality in the Snowy Monaro council area, south eastern New South Wales, Australia.

frying pan meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

frying pan in Hindi

long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
कड़ाही kaṛāhī, कड़ाहा kaṛāhā, तवा tavā

frying pan in Tamil

பொரித்தட்டு

frying pan in Urdu

long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
کڑاہی kaṛāhī, توا tavā, تابہ tâba

frying pan in Bengali

long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
ভাজার চাটু bhajar caṭu, ফ্রাইং প্যান phraiṅ pên
More languagesFewer languages
frying pan in Kannada
ಬಾಂಡಲಿ, ಬಾಂಡ್ಲಿ, ಬಾಣಲೆ, ಬಾಂಡಲೆ
frying pan in Sanskrit
कटाह kaṭāha
frying pan in Tagalog
kawali
frying pan in Arabic
مِقْلَاة miqlāh
frying pan in Persian
تابه tâbe, ماهیتابه mâhitâbe
frying pan in Thai
กระทะ grà-tá
frying pan in Vietnamese
chảo, xanh

Synonyms of frying pan

Forms of frying pan

pluralfrying pans
alternative formfrying-pan
alternative formfryingpan

Origin of frying pan

From Middle English fryyng panne; equivalent to frying + pan.

Words formed from frying pan

Questions about frying pan

What does frying pan mean?
Frying pan means a long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food.
What is frying pan in Hindi?
Frying pan in Hindi is कड़ाही (kaṛāhī), कड़ाहा (kaṛāhā), तवा (tavā). See Frying pan meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is frying pan?
Frying pan can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of frying pan?
The plural of frying pan is frying pans.

Words near frying pan in the dictionary

  1. fryers
  2. Fryerstown
  3. frying
  4. frying ladle
  5. frying ladles
  6. frying pan
  7. frying pans
  8. frying someone's bacon
  9. frying steak
  10. frying steaks
  11. frying up

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: frying pan (page history and authors); Frying Pan (page history and authors); frying pan (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); frying pan (Kannada Wiktionary) (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.

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