gum arabic

Etymology
+ ; the name was used in Arabic and other Middle Eastern languages since the 9th century, and retained in the languages of Europeans who first acquired it via Arab ports.

Noun

 * 1) An edible substance taken from one of two species of sub-Saharan acacia trees,  and, used in the food industry as a stabilizer (e.g. in soda, gumdrops and marshmallows) and other purposes including pharmaceuticals, paints and polishes.

Synonyms

 * when used as a thickener, stabiliser or emulsifier,, acacia gum, , acacia, ,

Translations

 * Afrikaans: arabiese gom
 * Albanian: gomë arabike
 * Amharic: አረብኛ ማስቲካ
 * Arabic: صَمْغ عَرَبِيّ, عِلْكَة عَرَبِيَّة
 * Egyptian Arabic: ضمغ
 * Armenian: ռետին արաբերեն, արաբական խեժ
 * Azerbaijani: ərəb diş əti
 * Basque: oietako arabiera
 * Belarusian: гуміарабік
 * Bengali: আরবি আঠা
 * Breton: gom arabek
 * Bulgarian: гума арабика
 * Catalan: goma aràbiga
 * Cebuano: tagok arabe
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 阿拉伯樹膠
 * Czech: arabská guma
 * Danish: gummi arabikum
 * Dutch: arabische gom
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: რეზინის არაბული
 * German:
 * Gujarati: ગમ અરબી
 * Hausa: ƙaro
 * Hebrew: גומי ערבי
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: gumiarabikum
 * Icelandic: arabískt gúmmí
 * Indonesian: gom arab
 * Irish: guma arabach
 * Japanese: アラビアゴム
 * Javanese: permen karet Arab
 * Kazakh: гумиарабик
 * Khmer: ស្ករកៅស៊ូភាសាអារ៉ាប់
 * Korean: 아라비아고무
 * Latvian: gumiarābiks
 * Lithuanian: gumiarabikas
 * Luxembourgish: ersetzen arabesch
 * Macedonian: арапска гума
 * Malagasy: hihy arabo
 * Malay: gam arab
 * Malayalam: ഗം അറബിക്
 * Maltese: gomma arabika
 * Maori: kāpia Arāpi
 * Marathi: डिंक अरबी
 * Mocoví: goma arabica
 * Mongolian: араб бохь
 * Nepali: गम अरबी
 * Norwegian: gummi arabiku
 * Pashto: شيره عربي
 * Persian: صمغ عربی, انگم عربی
 * Polish: guma arabska
 * Portuguese: goma-arábica
 * Punjabi: ਅਰਬੀ ਗੂੰਦ
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Samoan: pulu Arapi
 * Santali: ᱜᱚᱵᱞᱚ
 * Serbo-Croatian: arapska guma, гумарабика
 * Sindhi: گم عربي
 * Somali: xanjo carabi
 * Sotho: marenene Searabia
 * Spanish: goma arábiga
 * Swahili: sandarusi
 * Swedish: gumi arabicum
 * Tajik: резини арабӣ
 * Tamil: அரேபியப்பசை
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: หมากฝรั่งอาหรับ
 * Turkish: arap sakızı
 * Ukrainian: гуміарабік
 * Urdu: عربی گم
 * Uzbek: arab saqich, aqoqiyo
 * Vietnamese: gôm Ả Rập
 * Welsh: gwm Arabaidd
 * Xhosa: seentsini Arabhu
 * Yiddish: גומע אַראַביש