chewing gum

See also: chewing-gum

English

An unwrapped stick of chewing gum

Etymology

chewing +‎ gum

Noun

chewing gum (countable and uncountable, plural chewing gums)

A flavoured preparation of chicle or synthetic rubber, made for chewing.

Synonyms

chewie

Descendants

→ Bengali: চ্যুইং গাম (cẏuiṅ gam)
→ Burmese: ချူးအင်းဂမ်း (hkyu:ang:gam:)
→ French: chewing-gum
→ Hindi: चूइंग गम (cūiṅg gam)
→ Japanese: チューインガム (chūingamu)
→ Korean: 츄잉껌 (chu'ingkkeom)
→ Portuguese: chuinga
→ Romanian: ciungă
→ Sicilian: ciunga, giggumma
→ Urdu: چوئنگ گم‎ (cūing gam)

Translations

flavoured preparation for chewing

Albanian: çamçakëzi (sq) m
Arabic: عِلْكَة‎ f (ʿilka), لُبَان‎ (ar) m (lubān)
Egyptian Arabic: لبان‎ m (libān), مستيكة‎ f (mastīka)
Gulf Arabic: عِلْچ‎ m (ʿilč)
Hijazi Arabic: لبان‎ m (lubān)
Moroccan Arabic: مسكة‎ (maska)
Armenian: ծամոն (hy) (camon), մաստակ (hy) (mastak)
Azerbaijani: saqqız (az)
Bashkir: һағыҙ (hağıð)
Basque: txikle, txingoma, gomagoxo
Belarusian: жава́льная гу́мка f (žaválʹnaja húmka), жу́йка f (žújka)
Bengali: চ্যুইং গাম (cẏuiṅ gam)
Bulgarian: дъ́вка (bg) f (dǎ́vka)
Burmese: ချူးအင်းဂမ်း (hkyu:ang:gam:)
Catalan: xiclet (ca) m
Cherokee: ᎠᏜ (adla)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 香口膠 (yue), 香口胶 (hoeng¹ hau² gaau¹)
Mandarin: 口香糖 (zh) (kǒuxiāngtáng)
Min Nan: 橡奶糖 (chhiǔⁿ-lin-thn̂g, chhiūⁿ-ni-thn̂g, chhiū-leng-thn̂g, chhiū-ni-thn̂g)
Crimean Tatar: saqız
Czech: žvýkačka (cs) f
Danish: tyggegummi (da) n
Dutch: kauwgom (nl) m
Esperanto: maĉaĵo, maĉgumo
Estonian: närimiskumm
Faroese: tyggigummi n
Finnish: purukumi (fi)
French: chewing-gum (fr) m, (Canada) gomme à mâcher (fr) f, (Belgium, Switzerland) chiclette (fr) f or chiclet (fr) m
Galician: goma de mascar (gl) f
Georgian: საღეჭი რეზინი (saɣeč̣i rezini), კევი (ka) (ḳevi)
German: Kaugummi (de) m
Alemannic German: Chaugummi m, Chätschgummi m
Greek: τσίχλα (el) f (tsíchla), μαστίχα (el) f (mastícha)
Gujarati: ચિંગમ (ciṅgam)
Hebrew: גּוּמִי לְעִיסָה‎ m (gumi le'isa), מַסְטִיק‎ (he) m (mástik) (colloquial)
Hindi: चूइंग गम (cūiṅg gam), जुगल (hi) (jugal)
Hungarian: rágógumi (hu)
Icelandic: tyggigúmmí (is) n, tyggjó n, jórtúrleður
Indonesian: permen karet
Irish: guma coganta m, guma m
Italian: gomma da masticare f
Japanese: チューインガム (chūingamu), ガム (gamu)
Kazakh: сағыз (sağyz)
Khmer: ស្ករកៅស៊ូ (skɑɑ kaw suu)
Korean: 껌 (ko) (kkeom), 츄잉껌 (chu'ingkkeom)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: بِنێشت‎ (ku) (binêşt), جاچِکە‎ (caçike)
Northern Kurdish: benîşt (ku), qaçik (ku)
Southern Kurdish: جاجِگ‎ (cacig)
Kyrgyz: сагыз (ky) (sagız)
Lao: ໝາກຝະຫລັ່ງ (māk fa lang), ຫມາກຝຣັ່ງ (māk fa rang)
Latvian: košļājamā gumija f
Lithuanian: kramtomoji guma f
Luxembourgish: Knätsch (lb) m, Knätschgummi (lb) m
Macedonian: гума за џвакање f (guma za džvakanje), мастика f (mastika)
Malay: gula-gula getah
Maori: pia ngaungau
Mongolian: бохь (mn) (boxʹ)
Nahuatl: tzictli
Navajo: chʼag, jeeh
Norwegian:
Bokmål: tyggegummi m, tyggis (no) m
Nynorsk: tyggjegummi m, tyggegummi m, tyggis m
Oromo: maastiikaa
Pashto: ژاوله‎ (ps) f (žãwla)
Persian: آدامس‎ (fa) (âdâms)
Polish: guma (pl) f, guma do żucia (pl) f
Portuguese:
Angola and Mozambique: chuinga (pt)
(Brazil): chiclete (pt) m, goma de mascar (pt) f
(Portugal): chicla f, pastilha elástica (pt) f, chiclete (pt) f
Romanian: gumă de mestecat (ro) f
Russian: жева́тельная рези́нка (ru) f (ževátelʹnaja rezínka), жва́чка (ru) f (žváčka), жева́чка (ru) f (ževáčka)
Rusyn: жва́чый ґу́мій m (žváčŷj gúmij), жва́чка f (žváčka)
Scots: chuggie
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: жвакаћа гума f, жвака f
Roman: žvakaća guma f, žvaka (sh) f
Sicilian: giggumma f, ciunga (scn) f, masticanti f, masticogna (scn) f
Slovak: žuvačka f
Slovene: žvečilna guma f
Spanish: chicle (es) m
Swedish: tuggummi (sv) n
Tagalog: tsiklet
Tajik: сақич (saqič)
Tatar: сагыз (tt) (sağız)
Thai: หมากฝรั่ง (màak-fà-ràng)
Turkish: sakız (tr), ciklet (tr)
Turkmen: sakgyç
Ukrainian: жува́льна гу́мка f (žuválʹna húmka), жва́чка f (žváčka), жу́йка f (žújka), жува́чка f (žuváčka)
Urdu: چوئنگ گم‎ (cūing gam)
Uyghur: سېغىز‎ (sëghiz)
Uzbek: saqich (uz)
Vietnamese: kẹo cao su
Volapük: maskagumod
Walloon: tchiclete (wa) f
Welsh: gwm cnoi (cy) m
Yiddish: קײַגומע‎ (kaygume)
Zhuang: goujyanghdangz