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shortening meaning in Urdu

مختصر کرنا

shortening in Urdu: مختصر کرنا. In English, shortening means fat that is solid at room temperature, especially hydrogenated vegetable oil (known as vegetable shortening), used to make shortcrust pastry and in deep fat frying.

Urdu words for shortening

مختصر کرنا

English meaning of shortening

  1. noun Fat that is solid at room temperature, especially hydrogenated vegetable oil (known as vegetable shortening), used to make shortcrust pastry and in deep fat frying.

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Questions about shortening in Urdu

What is the meaning of shortening in Urdu?
Shortening in Urdu is مختصر کرنا.
shortening کا اردو میں کیا مطلب ہے؟
Shortening: مختصر کرنا.
What does shortening mean in English?
Shortening means fat that is solid at room temperature, especially hydrogenated vegetable oil (known as vegetable shortening), used to make shortcrust pastry and in deep fat frying.

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Urdu words: machine translation by IndicTrans2 (AI4Bharat, MIT license), kept only when it translates back to “shortening”. English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: shortening (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Urdu words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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