gum arabic

English

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. It is 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

Translations

substance from acacia trees

• Afrikaans: arabiese gom
• Albanian: gomë arabike f
• Amharic: አረብኛ ማስቲካ (ʾäräbña mastika)
• Arabic: عِلْكَة عَرَبِيَّة‎ (ʿilka ʿarabiyya)

  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 (arôbi 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 (gwmïarabïk)
• 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 bohʹ)
• Nepali: गम अरबी (gam arabī)
• Norwegian: gummi arabiku
• Pashto: شيره عربي‎
• Persian: صمغ عربی‎ (samq-e arabī), انگم عربی‎ (angom-e arabī)
• 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
• Xhosa: seentsini Arabhu
• Yiddish: גומע אַראַביש‎ f (gume arabish)