English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkændi ˌflɒs/
Noun
candy floss (usually uncountable, plural candy flosses)
- (UK, Ireland) Heated sugar spun into thin threads and collected into a mass, usually on a stick.
Synonyms
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 tong4-2)
- Mandarin: 棉花糖 (zh) (miánhuātáng)
- Cornish: komolen sugra f (literally “sugar cloud”)
- 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 (sa'arót sávta), צמר גפן מתוק (he) m (tsémer géfen matók)
- 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 (ja) (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, algodón sacarífero m, algodón sacarino m
- Swedish: sockervadd (sv) c, spunnet socker (sv)
- 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
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