gum arabic

gum arabic

English

Etymology

gum + Arabic; the name was used in Arabic and other Middle Eastern languages since the 9th century (الصمغ العربي‎), 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 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

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 (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 (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 Welsh: gwm Arabaidd m Xhosa: seentsini Arabhu Yiddish: גומע אַראַביש‎ f (gume arabish)

References

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