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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Meanings

nouncooking oil (countable and uncountable, plural cooking oils)

plural cooking oils

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

Translations

Arabic زَيْت اَلْطَهِي
  • زَيْت اَلْطَهِي (zayt al-ṭahī)purified fat
Bulgarian олио
  • олио (olio)purified fat
Chinese Mandarin 食用油, 食油
  • 食用油 (shíyòngyóu)purified fat
  • 食油 (shíyóu)purified fat
Finnish ruokaöljy
  • ruokaöljypurified fat
French huile de cuisson
  • huile de cuissonpurified fat
German Speiseöl
  • Speiseölpurified fat
Hungarian étolaj
  • étolajpurified fat
Indonesian minyak goreng
  • minyak gorengpurified fat
Japanese 食用油
  • 食用油 (shokuyōyu)purified fat
Latvian cepamo eļļu
  • cepamo eļļupurified fat
Malay minyak masak
  • minyak masakpurified fat
Norwegian Bokmål matolje
  • matoljepurified fat
Polish olej
  • olejpurified fat
Russian ма́сло для жа́рки
  • ма́сло для жа́рки (máslo dlja žárki)purified fat
Spanish aceite de cocina
  • aceite de cocinapurified fat
Swedish matolja
  • matoljapurified fat
Thai น้ำมันประกอบอาหาร
  • น้ำมันประกอบอาหาร (nám-man-bprà-gɔ̀ɔp-aa-hǎan)purified fat
Vietnamese dầu ăn
  • dầu ănpurified fat
Cite this entry
APA

cooking oil. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cooking%20oil

MLA

“cooking oil.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cooking%20oil. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cooking oil,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cooking%20oil.

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