molasses

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English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑːsɪz

Etymology 1

French mélasse or Portuguese melaço compare Spanish melaza, from Late Latin mellaceus "honeylike", "honey-sweet", from Latin mel, mellis, "honey". See mellifluous and compare melasses.

Noun

molasses (uncountable)

1. A thick brownish syrup produced in the refining of raw sugar.

Synonyms

• long sweetening, treacle

Derived terms

• slow as molasses in January

Translations

thick brownish syrup refined from raw sugar

• Afrikaans: melasse (af)
• Asturian: melaza (ast) f
• Breton: triakl (br) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 糖蜜 (cmn) (tángmì)

• Czech: melasa (cs) f
• Dutch: melasse (nl) f
• Esperanto: melaso (eo)
• Finnish: melassi (fi)
• French: mélasse (fr) f
• Galician: melaza (gl) f
• German: Melasse (de) f, Sirup (de) m
• Hebrew: דבשה (he) (divsha) f

• Hungarian: melasz (hu)
• Italian: melassa (it) f
• Japanese: 糖蜜 (ja) (とうみつ, tōmitsu)
• Korean: 당밀 (ko) (dangmil) (糖蜜 (ko))
• Manx: soo shugyr (gv)
• Polish: melasa (pl) f
• Portuguese: melaço (pt) m
• Quechua: q'ita (qu)
• Russian: меласса (ru) (melássa) f, ‎(чёрная) патока ((čórnaja) pátoka) f 
• Spanish: melaza (es) f
• Sranan Tongo: malasi
• Swedish: melass (sv) c
• Volapük: melat (vo)

Etymology 2

Noun

molasses

1. Plural form of molasse

References

• molasses in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• “molasses” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).