vegetable oil

English

Noun

vegetable oil (countable and uncountable, plural vegetable oils)

olive oil

1. Any oil produced from plants, mostly used for cooking; sometimes used in biofuels.

   Hypernyms: oil; lipid; foodstuff

   Hyponyms: olive oil, palm oil; others at seed oil

   Coordinate terms: (oil types) mineral oil; petroleum; motor oil; fuel oil

Usage notes

In US groceries, bottles labelled "vegetable oil" typically contain soybean oil.

Translations

oil produced from plants

• Armenian: ձեթ (hy) (jetʻ), բուսական յուղ (busakan yuġ)
• Belarusian: раслі́нны але́й m (raslínny aljéj), але́й m (aljéj)
• Bulgarian: расти́телно ма́сло n (rastítelno máslo), расти́телно масло́ n (rastítelno masló)
• Catalan: oli vegetal m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 植物油 (zik⁶ mat⁶ jau⁴), 菜油 (coi³ jau⁴)

  Mandarin: 植物油 (zh) (zhíwùyóu), 素油 (zh) (sùyóu), 菜油 (zh) (càiyóu)

• Czech: rostlinný olej m
• Danish: vegetabilsk olie c, planteolie c
• Dutch: plantenolie f, plantaardige olie (nl) f
• Faroese: plantuolja f
• Finnish: kasvisöljy
• French: huile végétale f
• Galician: aceite vexetal (gl) m
• Georgian: მცენარეული ზეთი (mcenareuli zeti)
• German: Pflanzenöl (de) n
• Greek: σπορέλαιο (el) n (sporélaio)
• Hebrew: שמן צמחי m (shémen tsimkhí), שמן (he) (shémen)
• Icelandic: jurtaolía (is) f
• Irish: ola phlandúil f
• Italian: olio vegetale m
• Japanese: 植物油 (ja) (しょくぶつゆ, shokubutsuyu)
• Korean: 식물유(植物油) (ko) (singmuryu)
• Macedonian: растително масло n (rastitelno maslo)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: planteolje m or f, vegetabilsk olje m or f

  Nynorsk: planteolje m or f

• Old East Slavic: олѣи m (olěi)
• Polish: olej roślinny m
• Portuguese: óleo vegetal m
• Romanian: ulei vegetal n, untdelemn (ro) n
• Russian: расти́тельное ма́сло (ru) n (rastítelʹnoje máslo), ма́сло (ru) n (máslo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: биљно уље n

  Roman: biljno ulje n

• Slovak: rastlinný olej m
• Slovene: rastlinsko olje n
• Spanish: aceite vegetal m
• Swedish: vegetabilisk olja (sv) c
• Thai: น้ำมันพืช (th) (nám-man-pʉ̂ʉt)
• Ukrainian: росли́нна олі́я f (roslýnna olíja), олі́я (uk) f (olíja)

References

• “vegetable oil”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.