油 (あぶら, abura) Japanese meaning: oil | KotomoraPut a little oil in the frying pan.
This machine needs to be oiled regularly.
Usage patterns
油で〈物〉を揚げるto deep-fry something in oil
I deep-fried vegetables in oil to make tempura.
〈物〉に油を塗るto apply oil to something
I oiled the frying pan before cooking the meat.
油が切れるto run out of oil
The car ran out of oil and started making a strange noise.
油がはねるfor hot oil to spatter
While I was frying food, hot oil spattered and I got burned.
Expressions· 13
水と油oil and water; incompatible things or people 油に水incompatible; like oil and water 火に油fuel to the fire; adding fuel to the fire
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油を売るloaf around on the job; dawdle; waste time 油を注ぐpour oil on; anoint with oil · add fuel to the fire; stir up; encourage
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rape plant; oilseed rape; Brassica campestris
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large brown cicada; Graptopsaltria nigrofuscata
oil dealer; oil merchant
rapeseed oil; canola oil
camellia oil; tea seed oil
aphid; plant louse · cockroach · Japanese house bat · hanger-on; parasite (person) · looker (in red-light district)
pomade; hair oil
hair oil; camellia oil; rape oil · kerosene; paraffin; lamp oil
pomade mixed with lampblack
oil bottle; hair oil container · oilcup; oil cup · font; oil lamp font
fat greenling; Hexagrammos otakii · salamander
greenling (Northern Japan) · medaka ricefish (Kochi)
oil-soaked cloth; oily rag · oilskin; oilcloth
medieval trade guild for perilla oil
Japanese tungoil tree; Vernicia cordata
