gum arabic

English

Alternative forms

• gum-arabic, gumarabic

Etymology

gum + Arabic; the name was used in Arabic and other Middle Eastern languages since the 9th century (صَمْغ عَرَبِيّ (ṣamḡ ʕarabiyy)), and retained in the languages of Europeans who first acquired it via Arab ports.

Noun

gum arabic (countable and uncountable, plural gums arabic)

1. 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 other purposes 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

substance from acacia trees

• Afrikaans: arabiese gom
• Albanian: gomë arabike f
• Amharic: አረብኛ ማስቲካ (ʾäräbña mastika)
• Arabic: صَمْغ عَرَبِيّ m (ṣamḡ ʕarabiyy), عِلْكَة عَرَبِيَّة f (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 (arobi 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 (gaṁ 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 Ả Rập
• Welsh: gwm Arabaidd m
• Xhosa: seentsini Arabhu
• Yiddish: גומע אַראַביש f (gume arabish)

References

• gum arabic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:gum arabic on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons