Phrase guide

cooking oil

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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Antonyms: none provided

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noun

Meaning 2

any of numerous vegetable oils used in cooking

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: vegetable oil, oil

History

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Across languages

Translations

23 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: زَيْت اَلْطَهِي (zayt al-ṭahī) — purified fat
  • Central Bikol: lana — purified fat
  • Bulgarian: олио (olio) — purified fat
  • Chinese Mandarin: 食用油 (shíyòngyóu) — purified fat
  • Chinese Mandarin: 食油 (shíyóu) — purified fat
  • Finnish: ruokaöljy — purified fat
  • French: huile de cuisson — purified fat
  • German: Speiseöl — purified fat
  • Hungarian: étolaj — purified fat
  • Indonesian: minyak goreng — purified fat
  • Japanese: 食用油 (shokuyōyu) — purified fat
  • Latvian: cepamo eļļu — purified fat
  • Malay: minyak masak — purified fat
  • Navajo: akʼah — purified fat
  • Norwegian Bokmål: matolje — purified fat
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: matolje — purified fat
  • Polish: olej — purified fat
  • Russian: ма́сло для жа́рки (máslo dlja žárki) — purified fat
  • Saisiyat: 'abora' — purified fat
  • Spanish: aceite de cocina — purified fat
  • Swedish: matolja — purified fat
  • Thai: น้ํามันประกอบอาหาร (nám-man-bprà-gɔ̀ɔp-aa-hǎan) — purified fat
  • Vietnamese: dầu ăn — purified fat