licorice

Alternative forms

 * (See the usage notes below)

Etymology
From, from , from , alteration of : +  (🇨🇬, 🇨🇬). .

Noun

 * 1)  The plant, or sometimes in North America, the related American Licorice plant.
 * 2)  A type of candy  made from that plant's dried root or its extract.
 * 3)  A black colour, named after the licorice.
 * 4)  A flavouring agent made from dried root portions of the aforementioned plant.
 * 5)  A supposed aphrodisiac made in the past from dried roots of  and.
 * 1)  A flavouring agent made from dried root portions of the aforementioned plant.
 * 2)  A supposed aphrodisiac made in the past from dried roots of  and.

Usage notes
The American spelling is nearer the Old French source, which is ultimately from. The British spelling was influenced by the unrelated word liquor. Licorice prevails in Canada and it is common in Australia, but it is rarely found in the UK. Liquorice is all but nonexistent in the US ("chiefly British", according to dictionaries).

Translations

 * Arabic: عِرْقْسُوس, نَبَات اَلسُّوس
 * Hijazi Arabic: عِرْقْسوس
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: regaliza, regalicia, regaliz
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Basque: erregaliz
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian: сладник, женско биле
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 甘草
 * Eastern Min: 甘草
 * Hakka: 甘草
 * Hokkien: 甘草
 * Mandarin:, 歐亞甘草
 * Coptic: ⲕⲓⲕⲓⲍⲱⲛ
 * Czech:
 * Danish: lakrids
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: lagritsa-magusjuur
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Galician: regaliza, machicón
 * Georgian: ძირტკბილა
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: γλυκύρριζα
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: carra mhilis
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 甘木 , リコリス
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh: мия
 * Korean: 감초(甘草)
 * Lithuanian: saldymedis
 * Luxembourgish: Séissholz
 * Macedonian: сладунец, сладок корен
 * Malay: akar manis
 * Navajo: ałtaʼneetsʼéhiitsʼóóz
 * Norman: ricolisse
 * Norwegian:
 * Plautdietsch: Lagritz
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, regaliz
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian: sladić
 * Slovak: sladovka
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: liquorice, regalis, sagamanin
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: ชะเอมเทศ
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: солодка
 * Venetian: sugorisia
 * Vietnamese: (甘草)
 * Welsh: licris


 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: lakrids
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: lakrico
 * Estonian: lagrits
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Galician: regaliza
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish: liocras
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: リコリス菓子
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Macedonian: сладунец
 * Malay: likuoris
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: lakris
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: doce de alcaçuz
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: regalis
 * Thai: ชะเอมเทศ
 * Turkish:
 * Upper Sorbian:
 * Welsh: licris


 * Italian:
 * Romanian: