gum arabic

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gum + Arabic; the name was used in Arabic and other Middle Eastern languages since the 9th century (صَمْغ عَرَبِيّ (ṣamḡ ʕarabiyy)), and retained in the languages of Europeans who first acquired it via Arab ports.

84 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: arabiese gom — substance from acacia trees
• Albanian: gomë arabike — substance from acacia trees
• Amharic: አረብኛ ማስቲካ (ʾäräbña mastika) — substance from acacia trees
• Arabic: صَمْغ عَرَبِيّ (ṣamḡ ʕarabiyy) — substance from acacia trees
• Arabic: عِلْكَة عَرَبِيَّة (ʕilka ʕarabiyya) — substance from acacia trees
• Arabic: ضمغ (ṣamḡ) — substance from acacia trees
• Armenian: ռետին արաբերեն (ṙetin araberen) — substance from acacia trees
• Armenian: արաբական խեժ (arabakan xež) — substance from acacia trees
• Azerbaijani: ərəb diş əti — substance from acacia trees
• Basque: oietako arabiera — substance from acacia trees
• Belarusian: гуміарабік (humiarabik) — substance from acacia trees
• Bengali: আরবি আঠা (arobi aṭha) — substance from acacia trees
• Breton: gom arabek — substance from acacia trees
• Bulgarian: гума арабика (guma arabika) — substance from acacia trees
• Catalan: goma aràbiga — substance from acacia trees
• Cebuano: tagok arabe — substance from acacia trees
• Chinese Mandarin: 阿拉伯膠 /阿拉伯胶 (Ālābó jiāo) — substance from acacia trees
• Czech: arabská guma — substance from acacia trees
• Danish: gummi arabikum — substance from acacia trees
• Dutch: arabische gom — substance from acacia trees
• Finnish: arabikumi — substance from acacia trees
• French: gomme arabique — substance from acacia trees
• Galician: goma arábiga — substance from acacia trees
• Georgian: რეზინის არაბული (rezinis arabuli) — substance from acacia trees
• German: Gummiarabikum — substance from acacia trees
• Gujarati: ગમ અરબી (gam arabī) — substance from acacia trees
• Hausa: ƙārō — substance from acacia trees
• Hebrew: גומי ערבי — substance from acacia trees
• Hindi: गोंद (gond) — substance from acacia trees
• Hungarian: gumiarabikum — substance from acacia trees
• Icelandic: arabískt gúmmí — substance from acacia trees
• Indonesian: gom arab — substance from acacia trees
• Irish: guma arabach — substance from acacia trees
• Japanese: アラビアゴム (arabiagomu) — substance from acacia trees
• Javanese: permen karet Arab — substance from acacia trees
• Kazakh: гумиарабик (gumiarabik) — substance from acacia trees
• Khmer: ស្ករកៅស៊ូភាសាអារ៉ាប់ (skarkawsaou pheasaea areab) — substance from acacia trees
• Korean: 아라비아고무 (arabiagomu) — substance from acacia trees
• Latvian: gumiarābiks — substance from acacia trees
• Lithuanian: gumiarabikas — substance from acacia trees
• Luxembourgish: ersetzen arabesch — substance from acacia trees
• Macedonian: арапска гума (arapska guma) — substance from acacia trees
• Malagasy: hihy arabo — substance from acacia trees
• Malay: gam arab — substance from acacia trees
• Malayalam: ഗം അറബിക് (gaṁ aṟabikŭ) — substance from acacia trees
• Maltese: gomma arabika — substance from acacia trees
• Māori: kāpia Arāpi — substance from acacia trees
• Marathi: डिंक अरबी (ḍiṅka arbī) — substance from acacia trees
• Mocoví: goma arabica — substance from acacia trees
• Mongolian: араб бохь (arab boxʹ) — substance from acacia trees
• Nepali: गम अरबी (gam arabī) — substance from acacia trees
• Norwegian: gummi arabiku — substance from acacia trees
• Pashto: شيره عربي — substance from acacia trees
• Persian: صمغ عربی (samġ-e 'arabi) — substance from acacia trees
• Persian: انگم عربی (angom-e 'arabi) — substance from acacia trees
• Polish: guma arabska — substance from acacia trees
• Portuguese: goma-arábica — substance from acacia trees
• Punjabi: ਅਰਬੀ ਗੂੰਦ (arabī gūnd) — substance from acacia trees
• Romanian: gumă arabică — substance from acacia trees
• Russian: гуммиара́бик (gummiarábik) — substance from acacia trees
• Samoan: pulu Arapi — substance from acacia trees
• Santali: ᱜᱚᱵᱞᱚ (gôblô) — substance from acacia trees
• Serbo-Croatian: arapska guma — substance from acacia trees
• Serbo-Croatian: гумарабика — substance from acacia trees
• Sindhi: گم عربي (gm ʻrbe) — substance from acacia trees
• Somali: xanjo carabi — substance from acacia trees
• Sotho: marenene Searabia — substance from acacia trees
• Spanish: goma arábiga — substance from acacia trees
• Swahili: sandarusi — substance from acacia trees
• Swedish: gumi arabicum — substance from acacia trees
• Tajik: резини арабӣ (rezin-i arabi) — substance from acacia trees
• Tamil: அரேபியப்பசை (arēpiyappacai) — substance from acacia trees
• Telugu: తుమ్మబంక (tummabaṅka) — substance from acacia trees
• Thai: หมากฝรั่งอาหรับ — substance from acacia trees
• Turkish: Arap zamkı — substance from acacia trees
• Turkish: zamkıarabi — substance from acacia trees
• Ukrainian: гуміарабік (humiarabik) — substance from acacia trees
• Urdu: عربی گم — substance from acacia trees
• Uzbek: arab saqich — substance from acacia trees
• Uzbek: aqoqiyo — substance from acacia trees
• Vietnamese: gôm Ả Rập — substance from acacia trees
• Welsh: gwm Arabaidd — substance from acacia trees
• Xhosa: seentsini Arabhu — substance from acacia trees
• Yiddish: גומע אַראַביש (gume arabish) — substance from acacia trees