candy floss

See also: candyfloss and candyfloss'

English

Candy floss

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkændi ˌflɒs/

Noun

candy floss (usually uncountable, plural candy flosses)

2. (UK, New Zealand) Heated sugar spun into thin threads and collected into a mass, usually on a stick.

Synonyms

• cotton candy (US, Canada)
• fairy floss (Australia)

Translations

sweet

• Afrikaans: Spookasem, Spook Asem
• Arabic: غَزْل اَلْبَنَات m (ḡazl al-banāt)

  Gulf Arabic: شَعَربَنَات m

  Hijazi Arabic: حَلَاوَة قُطُن f (ḥalāwa guṭun)

• Armenian: բամբակ (hy) (bambak)
• Asturian: algodón de zucre
• Bengali: হাওয়াই মিঠাই (haōẇai miṭhai), হাওয়াই মিষ্টি (haōẇai miśṭi)
• Bulgarian: захарен памук (zaharen pamuk)
• Catalan: cotó fluix de sucre m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 棉花糖 (min⁴ faa¹ tong^4-2)

  Mandarin: 棉花糖 (zh) (miánhuātáng)

• Czech: cukrová vata (cs) f
• Danish: candyfloss c
• Dutch: suikerspin (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: sukerŝpinaĵo, sukervato
• Finnish: hattara (fi)
• French: barbe à papa (fr) f
• Georgian: ბამბა (ბამბა), ბამბის ნაყინი (bambis naq̇ini)
• German: Zuckerwatte (de) f
• Greek: μαλλί της γριάς n (mallí tis griás)
• Gujarati: મીઠું રૂ (mīṭhũ rū)
• Hebrew: שערות סבתא m (se'arot sav'ta) , צמר גפן מתוק (he) m (tsemer geffen matok)
• Hindi: बुड्ढी के बाल (buḍḍhī ke bāl)
• Hungarian: vattacukor (hu)
• Icelandic: (wool candy) ullarbrjóstsykur m, (sugar foam) sykurfrauð n
• Indonesian: gulali (id)
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• Italian: zucchero filato m
• Japanese: 綿菓子 (わたがし, watagashi), 綿飴 (わたあめ, wataame)
• Kannada: ಬೊಂಬಾಯಿ ಮಿಠಾಯಿ (bombāyi miṭhāyi)
• Korean: 솜사탕 (somsatang)
• Luxembourgish: Zockerwatt (lb) f
• Macedonian: шеќерна волна (šeḱerna volna)
• Malay: gula kapas, gulali
• Malayalam: പഞ്ഞി മിഠായി (paññi miṭhāyi)
• Maori: wūru huka
• Mongolian: хөөсөн чихэр (xöösön čixer)
• Norwegian: sukkerspinn n
• Persian: پشمک (fa) (pašmak)
• Polish: wata cukrowa (pl) f
• Portuguese: algodão-doce (pt)
• Romanian: vată de zahăr (ro)
• Russian: са́харная ва́та f (sáxarnaja váta)
• Scottish Gaelic: clòimh mhilis f
• Slovene: sladkorna pena f
• Spanish: algodón de azúcar m
• Swedish: sockervadd (sv) c, spunnet socker
• Tamil: பஞ்சு மிட்டாய் (ta) (pañcu miṭṭāy)
• Telugu: పీచుమిఠాయి (pīcumiṭhāyi)
• Thai: สายไหม (th) (sǎai-mǎi)
• Turkish: pamuk şekeri, pamuk helvası
• Urdu: لچھا
• Vietnamese: kẹo bông

Further reading

• Cotton candy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia