gum arabic

gum arabic - English

Noun

gum arabic (countable and uncountable, plural gums arabic)

An edible substance taken from one of two species of sub-Saharan acacia trees, Senegalia senegal and Vachellia seyal, used in the food industry as a stabilizer (e.g. in soda, gumdrops and marshmallows) and in other industries including pharmaceuticals, paints and polishes.

Synonyms

E414 when used as a thickener, stabiliser or emulsifier, gum acacia, acacia gum, Arabic gum, acacia, Senegal gum, Indian gum

Derived terms

gum arabic tree

Translations

Afrikaans: arabiese gom
Albanian: gomë arabike f
Amharic: አረብኛ ማስቲካ (ʾäräbña mastika)
Arabic: عِلْكَة عَرَبِيَّة‎ (ʕilka ʕarabiyya)
- Egyptian Arabic: ضمغ‎ m (ṣamḡ)
Armenian: ռետին արաբերեն (ṙetin araberen), արաբական խեժ (arabakan xež)
Azerbaijani: ərəb diş əti
Basque: oietako arabiera
Belarusian: гуміарабік (humiarabik)
Bengali: আরবি আঠা (arbi aṭha)
Breton: gom arabek f
Bulgarian: гума арабика f (guma arabika)
Catalan: goma aràbiga f
Cebuano: tagok arabe
Chinese:
- Mandarin: 阿拉伯樹膠／阿拉伯树胶 (Ālābó shùjiāo)
Czech: arabská guma
Danish: gummi arabikum
Dutch: arabische gom
Finnish: arabikumi (fi)
French: gomme arabique (fr) f
Galician: goma arábiga (gl) f
Georgian: რეზინის არაბული (rezinis arabuli)
German: Gummiarabikum (de) m
Gujarati: ગમ અરબી (gam arabī)
Hausa: ƙārō m
Hebrew: גומי ערבי‎
Hindi: गोंद (hi) m (gond)
Hungarian: gumiarabikum
Icelandic: arabískt gúmmí f
Indonesian: gom arab
Irish: guma arabach m
Japanese: アラビアゴム (arabiagomu)
Javanese: permen karet Arab
Kazakh: гумиарабик (gumiarabik)
Khmer: ស្ករកៅស៊ូភាសាអារ៉ាប់ (skarkawsaou pheasaea areab)
Korean: 아라비아고무 (arabiagomu)
Latvian: gumiarābiks
Lithuanian: gumiarabikas
Luxembourgish: ersetzen arabesch
Macedonian: арапска гума (arapska guma)
Malagasy: hihy arabo
Malay: gam arab
Malayalam: ഗം അറബിക് (gaṃ aṟabikŭ)
Maltese: gomma arabika f
Maori: kāpia Arāpi
Marathi: डिंक अरबी f (ḍiṅka arbī)
Mocoví: goma arabica
Mongolian: араб бохь (arab boxʹ)
Nepali: गम अरबी (gam arabī)
Norwegian: gummi arabiku
Pashto: شيره عربي‎
Persian: صمغ عربی‎ (samğ-e 'arabi), انگم عربی‎ (angom-e 'arabi)
Polish: guma arabska f
Portuguese: goma-arábica f
Punjabi: ਅਰਬੀ ਗੂੰਦ (arabī gūnd)
Romanian: gumă arabică (ro) f
Russian: гуммиара́бик (ru) m (gummiarábik)
Samoan: pulu Arapi
Santali: ᱜᱚᱵᱞᱚ (gôblô)
Serbo-Croatian: arapska guma f, гумарабика f
Sindhi: گم عربي‎
Somali: xanjo carabi
Sotho: marenene Searabia
Spanish: goma arábiga f
Swahili: sandarusi
Swedish: gumi arabicum
Tajik: резини арабӣ (rezini arabī)
Tamil: அரேபியப்பசை (arēpiyappacai)
Telugu: తుమ్మబంక (te) (tummabaṅka)
Thai: หมากฝรั่งอาหรับ
Turkish: arap sakızı
Ukrainian: гуміарабік f (humiarabik)
Urdu: عربی گم‎ f
Uzbek: arab saqich, aqoqiyo
Vietnamese: gôm a ráp
Welsh: gwm Arabaidd m
Xhosa: seentsini Arabhu
Yiddish: גומע אַראַביש‎ f (gume arabish)