sweetener

sweetener

English

Etymology

sweeten +‎ -er (“agent suffix”)

Noun

sweetener (plural sweeteners)

1. Something added to food to sweeten its taste, especially an artificial substitute for sugar.
2. (informal) Something given or added to added to a deal to sweeten another's attitude, especially a bribe or kickback.

Synonyms

• (gift or bribe): douceur; see gift and Thesaurus:bribe

Translations

food additive

Afrikaans: versoeter Albanian: sheqer diabetik Arabic: مُحَلِّيّ‎ m (muḥalliyy) Armenian: շաքարի փոխարինիչ (šakʿari pʿoxariničʿ) Azerbaijani: tatlandırıcı Basque: gozagarri Belarusian: падсаладжа́льнік m (padsaladžálʹnik), падсало́днік m (padsalódnik) Bengali: উৎকোচ (uṯkoca) Bulgarian: подслади́тел m (podsladítel) Catalan: edulcorant m Chinese: Mandarin: 甜味劑 (zh), 甜味剂 (zh) (tiánwèijì), 糖精 (zh) (tángjīng) Czech: sladidlo (cs) m Danish: sødestof Dutch: zoetstof (nl) Esperanto: dolĉigilo Estonian: magusaine, magustaja Finnish: makeutusaine (fi) French: édulcorant (fr) m Galician: adozante (gl) m German: Süßstoff (de) m Greek: γλυκαντικό (el) m (glykantikó) Haitian Creole: edulkoran Hebrew: ממתיק‎ m (mamtik) Hindi: स्वीटनर (svīṭanar) Hungarian: édesítőszer (hu) Icelandic: sætuefni m Indonesian: pemanis (id) Irish: milseoir Italian: dolcificante (it) m Japanese: 甘味料 (かんみりょう, kanmiryō) Korean: 감미료 (gammiryo) (甘味料 (ko)) Kyrgyz: таттуулук (ky) (tattuuluk) Latin: dulcedo m Latvian: saldinātājs m

Lithuanian: saldiklis m Macedonian: засладувач m (zasladuvač) Malay: pemanis Maltese: ħlewwa Manx: ooreyder Mongolian: амт оруулагч (amt oruulagč) Norwegian: Bokmål: søtningsmiddel n, søtningsstoff n, søtstoff n Nynorsk: søtstoff n Pashto: خواږه‎ (ps) (khowaga) Persian: شیرین کننده‎ (fa) Polish: słodzik (pl) m Portuguese: adoçante (pt) m Romanian: îndulcitor (ro) Russian: подсласти́тель (ru) m (podslastítelʹ) Scottish Gaelic: mìlseachd Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: заслађивач m Roman: zaslađivač m Shona: shuga Slovak: sladidlo n Slovene: sladilo n Sotho: natefisa tatso Spanish: edulcorante (es) m Swedish: sötningsmedel Tagalog: pangpatamis Tamil: இனிக்கும் (iṉikkum) Telugu: తియ్యని (te) (tiyyani) Thai: น้ำตาลเทียม (náamtaan thiiam) Turkish: tatlandırıcı Ukrainian: підсоло́джувач m (pidsolódžuvač) Urdu: سویٹنر‎ Uzbek: shakar o'rnini, bosuvchi modda Vietnamese: chất ngọt Xhosa: nangoku