chewing gum

See also: chewing-gum

English

An unwrapped stick of chewing gum

Alternative forms

• chewing-gum (dated)

Etymology

From chewing +‎ gum.

Pronunciation

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Noun

chewing gum (countable and uncountable, plural chewing gums)

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

Synonyms

• chewie

Derived terms

• chewing-gummy

Descendants

• → Bengali: চ্যুইং গাম (cuiṅ 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)
• → Maltese: ċuwing-gamm, ċjuwing-gamm, chewing gum, ċuwingam
• → Pannonian Rusyn: (Kucura) чунґам (čungam)
• → Portuguese: chuinga
• → Romanian: ciungă
• → Sicilian: ciunga, giggumma
• → Urdu: چُوئِن٘گ گَم (cūiṅg gam)
• → Yoruba: ṣingọ́ọ̀mù

Translations

flavoured preparation for chewing

• Albanian: çamçakëzi (sq) m
• Arabic: عِلْكَة f (ʕilka), لُبَان (ar) m (lubān)

  Egyptian Arabic: لبان m (libān), أستيكة f (astīka), مستيكة f (mastīka)

  Gulf Arabic: عِلْچ m (ʕilč)

  Hijazi Arabic: لبان m (lubān)

  Lebanese Arabic: عِلْكِة f (ʕilke)

  Moroccan Arabic: مسكة f (maska)

  South Levantine Arabic: علْكة f (ʕilke), لبان m ((i)lbān), مسكة f (miska)

  Tunisian Arabic: شكلي f (šikli)

• Armenian: ծամոն (hy) (camon), մաստակ (hy) (mastak)
• Azerbaijani: saqqız (az)
• Bashkir: һағыҙ (hağıź)
• Basque: txikle, txingoma, gomagoxo
• Belarusian: жава́льная гу́мка f (žaválʹnaja húmka), жу́йка f (žújka)
• Bengali: চ্যুইং গাম (cuiṅ gam)
• Bulgarian: дъ́вка (bg) f (dǎ́vka)
• Burmese: ချူးအင်းဂမ်း (hkyu:ang:gam:)
• Carpathian Rusyn: жва́чый ґу́мій m (žváčŷj gúmij), жва́чка f (žváčka)
• Catalan: xiclet (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᎠᏜ (adla)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 香口膠 / 香口胶 (yue) (hoeng¹ hau² gaau¹)

  Eastern Min: 樹奶糖 / 树奶糖 (chéu-nĕng-tòng)

  Hokkien: 橡奶糖 (chhiǔⁿ-lin-thn̂g, chhiūⁿ-ni-thn̂g, chhiū-leng-thn̂g, chhiū-ni-thn̂g)

  Mandarin: 口香糖 (zh) (kǒuxiāngtáng)

• 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: (France) chewing-gum (fr) m, (Canada, Louisiana, New England, Missouri) 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)

  Cypriot Greek: πίσσα f (píssa)

• Gujarati: ચિંગમ (ciṅgam)
• Guyanese Creole English: chico
• Hebrew: גּוּמִי לְעִיסָה m (gumi le'isa), מַסְטִיק (he) m (mástik) (colloquial)
• Hindi: चूइंग गम (cūiṅg gam), जुगल (hi) m (jugal)
• Hungarian: rágógumi (hu)
• Icelandic: tyggigúmmí (is) n, tyggjó n, jórtúrleður
• Indonesian: permen karet (id)
• Irish: guma coganta m, guma m
• Italian: gomma da masticare f
• Japanese: チューインガム (ja) (chūingamu), ガム (ja) (gamu)
• Kazakh: сағыз (sağyz)
• Khmer: ស្ករកៅស៊ូ (skɑɑ kaw suu)
• Korean: 껌 (ko) (kkeom), 츄잉껌 (chu'ingkkeom)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: بِنێشت (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 (mk) f (mastika)
• Malay: gula-gula getah
• Maltese: ċuwing-gamm m
• Maori: pia ngaungau
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: бохь (mn) (boxʹ)

  Mongolian: ᠪᠣᠬᠢ (boki)

• Nahuatl: tzictli
• Navajo: chʼag, jeeh
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tyggegummi m, tyggis (no) m

  Nynorsk: tyggjegummi m, tyggegummi m, tyggis m

• Oromo: maastiikaa
• Pannonian Rusyn: жуваче n (žuvače), чунґам m (čungam) (Kucura)
• Pashto: ژاوله (ps) f (žāwla)
• Persian:

  Dari: سَاجِق (sājiq)

  Iranian Persian: آدامْس (âdâms)

• Polish: guma (pl) f, guma do żucia (pl) f
• Portuguese:

  (Angola, Mozambique): chuinga (pt)

  (Brazil): chiclete (pt) m, goma de mascar (pt) f

  (Portugal): chicla f, pastilha elástica (pt) f, chiclete (pt) f, gama (pt) m (Azores)

• Romanian: gumă de mestecat (ro) f
• Russian: жева́тельная рези́нка (ru) f (ževátelʹnaja rezínka), жва́чка (ru) f (žváčka), жева́чка (ru) f (ževáčka)
• 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
• Southern Altai: саҥыс (saŋïs)
• Spanish: chicle (es) m
• Swahili: bigijii, chingamu
• 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: چُوئِن٘گ گَم (cūiṅg gam)
• Uyghur: سېغىز (sëghiz)
• Uzbek: saqich (uz)
• Vietnamese: kẹo cao su
• Volapük: maskagumod
• Walloon: tchiclete (wa) f
• Welsh: gwm cnoi (cy) m
• Yiddish: קײַגומע f (kaygume), קײַגומי m (kaygumi)
• Yoruba: ṣingọ́ọ̀mù
• Zhuang: goujyanghdangz

See also

• gum
• bubblegum

Anagrams

• gumchewing