"measuring cup" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: measuring cups [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} measuring cup (plural measuring cups)
  1. A kitchen utensil used primarily to measure the volume of liquid or bulk solid cooking ingredients. Wikipedia link: measuring cup Categories (topical): Containers, Measuring instruments Synonyms: measuring jug Translations (utensil to measure the volume): كُوب قِيَاس (kūb qiyās) [masculine] (Arabic), كاس العبار (kās l-aʕbār) [Moroccan-Arabic, masculine] (Arabic), мерителна чаша (meritelna čaša) [feminine] (Bulgarian), 量杯 (loeng⁴ bui¹) (Chinese Cantonese), 量杯 (liángbēi) (Chinese Mandarin), odměrka [feminine] (Czech), odměrná nádoba [feminine] (Czech), maatbeker [masculine] (Dutch), mõõtekann (Estonian), mittakannu (Finnish), verre doseur [masculine] (French), Messbecher [masculine] (German), מְשׂוּרָה (mesurá) [feminine] (Hebrew), misurino [masculine] (Italian), پیمانه (peymane) (Ottoman Turkish), پیمانه (peymâne) (Persian), miarka [feminine] (Polish), ме́рный стака́н (mérnyj stakán) [masculine] (Russian), mjerna čaša [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), mjerna posuda [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), merilna čaša [feminine] (Slovene), merilna posoda [feminine] (Slovene), vaso medidor [masculine] (Spanish), vasomedida [masculine] (Spanish), jarra medidora [feminine] (Spanish), taza dosificadora [feminine] (Spanish), medidor [masculine] (Spanish), medidora [feminine] (Spanish), mätkopp [common-gender] (Swedish), måttkopp [common-gender] (Swedish), ถ้วยตวง (tûai-dtuuang) (Thai), dereceli kap (Turkish)

Inflected forms

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