candy floss

See also: candyfloss and candyfloss'

English

Candy floss

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkændi ˌflɒs/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

candy floss (usually uncountable, plural candy flosses)

2. (UK, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia) Heated sugar spun into thin threads and collected into a mass, usually on a stick.

Synonyms

• cotton candy (US, Canada)
• fairy floss (Australia)

Translations

sweet

• Afrikaans: spookasem
• Arabic: غَزْل اَلْبَنَات m (ḡazl al-banāt)

  Gulf Arabic: شَعَربَنَات m (šaʕarbanāt)

  Hijazi Arabic: حَلَاوَة قُطُن f (ḥalāwa guṭun)

• Armenian: բամբակ (hy) (bambak), շաքարե բամբակ (šakʻare bambak)
• Asturian: algodón de zucre m
• Bengali: হাওয়াই মিঠাই (haōẇai miṭhai), হাওয়াই মিষ্টি (haōẇai miśṭi)
• Bulgarian: захарен памук m (zaharen pamuk)
• Catalan: cotó fluix de sucre m, cotó-en-pèl dolç m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 棉花糖 (min⁴ faa¹ tong^4-2)

  Mandarin: 棉花糖 (zh) (miánhuātáng)

• Czech: cukrová vata (cs) f
• Danish: candyfloss c
• Dutch: suikerspin (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: sukerŝpinaĵo
• Estonian: suhkruvatt
• Faroese: sukurvatt n
• Finnish: hattara (fi)
• French: barbe à papa (fr) f (literally “dad's beard”)
• Georgian: ბამბა (ka) (bamba), ბამბის ნაყინი (bambis naq̇ini)
• German: Zuckerwatte (de) f
• Greek: μαλλί της γριάς n (mallí tis griás)
• Gujarati: મીઠું રૂ (mīṭhũ rū)
• Hebrew: שערות סבתא m (se'arot sav'ta) , צמר גפן מתוק (he) m (tsemer geffen matok)
• Hindi: बुड्ढी के बाल (buḍḍhī ke bāl)
• Hungarian: vattacukor (hu)
• Icelandic: kandífloss, ullarbrjóstsykur m (rare), sykurfrauð n (rare)
• Indonesian: gulali (id)
• Italian: zucchero filato m
• Japanese: 綿菓子 (ja) (わたがし, watagashi), 綿飴 (わたあめ, wataame)
• Kannada: ಬೊಂಬಾಯಿ ಮಿಠಾಯಿ (bombāyi miṭhāyi)
• Korean: 솜사탕 (somsatang)
• Latvian: cukurvate
• Lithuanian: cukraus vata
• Luxembourgish: Zockerwatt (lb) f
• Macedonian: шеќерна волна f (šeḱerna volna)
• Malay:

  Rumi: gula kapas, gulali, alusmitai, halwa rambut

• Malayalam: പഞ്ഞി മിഠായി (paññi miṭhāyi)
• Maori: wūru huka
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: хөөсөн чихэр (xöösön čixer)

  Mongolian: ᠬᠥᠭᠡᠰᠦᠨ
  ᠰᠢᠬᠢᠷ (kögesün sikir)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: candyfloss m, sukkerspinn n

• Persian: پشمک (fa) (pašmak)
• Polish: wata cukrowa (pl) f
• Portuguese: algodão-doce (pt)
• Romanian: vată de zahăr (ro)
• Russian: са́харная ва́та (ru) f (sáxarnaja váta)
• Samoan: fulufulu suka
• Scottish Gaelic: clòimh mhilis f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: шећерна вуна f

  Roman: šećerna vuna f

• Slovak: cukrová vata
• Slovene: sladkorna vata f
• Spanish: algodón de azúcar m
• Swedish: sockervadd (sv) c, spunnet socker
• Tagalog: koton kendi, umikot asukal
• Tamil: பஞ்சு மிட்டாய் (ta) (pañcu miṭṭāy)
• Telugu: పీచుమిఠాయి (pīcumiṭhāyi)
• Thai: สายไหม (th) (sǎai-mǎi)
• Turkish: pamuk şekeri, pamuk helvası
• Ukrainian: цукрова вата (cukrova vata)
• Urdu: لچھا
• Vietnamese: kẹo bông, kẹo bông gòn
• Welsh: siwgr nyddu

Further reading

• Cotton candy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia