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sesame oil

sesame oil noun: oil extracted from sesame seeds (often after roasting) and used to flavor foods.

sesame oil: oil extracted from sesame seeds (often after roasting) and used to flavor foods
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Noun

sesame oil (countable and uncountable, plural sesame oils)

  1. Oil extracted from sesame seeds (often after roasting) and used to flavor foods.

sesame oil meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam

sesame oil in Hindi

oil extracted from sesame seeds
तिल का तेल til kā tel

sesame oil in Tamil

oil extracted from sesame seeds
நல்லெண்ணெய் nalleṇṇey

sesame oil in Telugu

sesame oil or gingelly oil
మంచినూనె mañcinūne
sesame oil
నూనె nūne

sesame oil in Malayalam

oil extracted from sesame seeds
നല്ലെണ്ണ nalleṇṇa, എള്ളെണ്ണ eḷḷeṇṇa
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sesame oil in Kannada
ಎಳ್ ನೆಯ್, ಎಳ್ಳೆಣ್ಣೆ
sesame oil in Punjabi
ਤਿਲ ਦਾ ਤੇਲ til dā tel
sesame oil in Odia
ତୈଳ taiḷa
sesame oil in Sanskrit
तैल tailá
sesame oil in Tagalog
langis ng linga, lana
sesame oil in Arabic
زَيْت سِمْسِم zayt simsim, زَيْت السِمْسِم zayt as-simsim, شِيرَج šīraj, سِيرَج sīraj
sesame oil in Thai
น้ำมันงา nám-man-ngaa
sesame oil in Vietnamese
dầu mè
sesame oil in Myanmar
နှမ်းဆီ hnam:hci

Forms of sesame oil

pluralsesame oils

Questions about sesame oil

What does sesame oil mean?
Sesame oil means oil extracted from sesame seeds (often after roasting) and used to flavor foods.
What is sesame oil in Hindi?
Sesame oil in Hindi is तिल का तेल (til kā tel). See Sesame oil meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is sesame oil?
Sesame oil is a noun.
What is the plural of sesame oil?
The plural of sesame oil is sesame oils.

Words near sesame oil in the dictionary

  1. ses
  2. sesame
  3. sesame dot
  4. sesame leaf
  5. sesame leaves
  6. sesame oil
  7. sesame seed
  8. sesame seeds
  9. Sesame Street
  10. sesames
  11. sesameseed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sesame oil (page history and authors); నూనె (Telugu) (page history and authors); sesame oil (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ତୈଳ (Odia) (page history and authors); तैल (Sanskrit) (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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