cooking

English

Etymology

From cook +‎ -ing. The noun and adjective follow from the verb.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /ˈkʊ.kɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ʊkɪŋ

Adjective

cooking (not comparable)

1. (informal) In progress, happening.

   The project took a few days to gain momentum, but by the end of the week, things were really cooking.

Noun

cooking (countable and uncountable; plural cookings)

1. The process of preparing food by using heat.
2. (by extension) The process of preparing food.
   • 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 6, Lord Stranleigh Abroad^[1]:

     The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack outside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks ; half of them in a very dishevelled state, […]

3. (by extension) The result of that process, a meal.
   • I missed my mum's cooking while I was at university.
4. The style or genre of food preparation; cookery.

Synonyms

(style or genre of food preparation): cuisine

Translations

the process of preparing food by using heat

• Arabic: طبخ (ar) (ṭabḫ) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 烹調 (cmn), 烹调 (cmn) (pēngtiáo), 烹飪 (cmn), 烹饪 (cmn) (pēngrèn)

• Czech: vaření (cs) n
• Esperanto: kuirado (eo)
• Ewe: nuɖaɖa m
• French: cuisine (fr) f
• German: Kochen (de) n
• Greek: μαγειρική (el) (mageirikí) f 
• Hebrew: בִּשּׁוּל (he) (bishúl) m
• Hungarian: főzés (hu)

• Japanese: 料理 (ja) (りょうり, ryōri)
• Jèrriais: tchuithie f
• Portuguese: cozinha (pt) f, cozimento (pt)
• Russian: готовка (ru) (gotóvka) f , кулинария (ru) (kulinaríja) f , (dated) стряпня (ru) (strjapnjá) f 
• Scottish Gaelic: còcaireachd (gd) f
• Swahili: mapishi (sw)
• Swedish: matlagning (sv)
• Tagalog: luto (tl)
• Telugu: వంట (vaNTa)
• Turkish: aşçılık (tr)

the result of the process of preparing food

• French: tambouille (fr) f (familiar)

the style or genre of food preparation; cookery

• Czech: kuchyně (cs) f, kuchařství (cs) n
• Ewe: nuɖaɖa m
• Greek: μαγειρική (el) (mageirikí) f 
• Hebrew: בישול \ בִּשּׁוּל (he) (bishúl) m
• Hungarian: konyhaművészet (hu)

• Portuguese: cozinha (pt) f, culinária (pt) f
• Scottish Gaelic: còcaireachd (gd) f
• Swahili: mapishi (sw)
• Tagalog: luto (tl), pagluluto (tl)
• Telugu: వంట (vaNTa)

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• Ewe: nuɖaɖa

Verb

cooking

1. Present participle of cook.