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mantika

English translation: coconut (cooking) oil

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Tagalog term or phrase:mantika
English translation:coconut (cooking) oil
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12:01 Nov 3, 2008
Tagalog to English translations [PRO]
Cooking / Culinary / restautant
Tagalog term or phrase: mantika
used in cooking...
jhoan
coconut (cooking) oil
Explanation:
If this is the "mantika" we use for everyday cooking, then it is coconut oil.
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4 +2coconut (cooking) oil
EnTG-Translator
5Lard/Fat/Grease/Shortening
P Waters
5oil
Taglish
4cooking oil
carolinavan


  

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coconut (cooking) oil


Explanation:
If this is the "mantika" we use for everyday cooking, then it is coconut oil.

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agree  Leny Vargas: to be safe just use COOKING oil. I use olive oil for everyday cooking. ;)
53 mins
  -> Yeah. Me too, actually. We don't have coconut oil here in Denmark and olive oil is actually rather cheap, not to mention healthier. ;-)

agree  dencruise: Agree. Use 'cooking oil' because all kinds of cooking oil are called 'mantika' by Filipinos.
15 hrs
  -> Salamat po. :-D
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
cooking oil


Explanation:
Yes, I agree this is the oil we use for cooking in the philippines.
we usually say to all kinds of oils "mantika" (usually it is coconut oil).

carolinavan
Germany
Local time: 15:29
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
Lard/Fat/Grease/Shortening


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P Waters
United Kingdom
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in TagalogTagalog
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106 days   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
oil


Explanation:
Actually, the exact translation for mantika is oil. It only refers to cooking oil when the mantika is used to cook the food. Oil is also langis when someone is referring to inedible oils.

Taglish
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