sweetener

English

Etymology

From sweeten +‎ -er (“agent suffix”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

sweetener (plural sweeteners)

1. Something added to food to sweeten its taste, especially an artificial substitute for sugar.
2. (informal) Something given or added to added to a deal to sweeten another's attitude, especially a bribe or kickback.
3. (slang) A shill bidder at an auction.

Synonyms

• (gift or bribe): douceur; see gift and Thesaurus:bribe

Derived terms

• artificial sweetener

 

Translations

food additive

• Afrikaans: versoeter
• Albanian: sheqer diabetik m
• Arabic: مُحَلِّيّ m (muḥalliyy)
• Armenian: շաքարի փոխարինիչ (šakʻari pʻoxariničʻ)
• Azerbaijani: tatlandırıcı
• Basque: gozagarri
• Belarusian: падсаладжа́льнік m (padsaladžálʹnik), падсало́днік m (padsalódnik)
• Bengali: উৎকোচ (bn) (utkōc)
• Bulgarian: подслади́тел m (podsladítel)
• Catalan: edulcorant (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 甜味劑 / 甜味剂 (zh) (tiánwèijì), 糖精 (zh) (tángjīng)

• Czech: sladidlo (cs) m
• Danish: sødestof
• Dutch: zoetstof (nl)
• Esperanto: dolĉigilo
• Estonian: magusaine, magustaja
• Finnish: makeutusaine (fi)
• French: édulcorant (fr) m
• Galician: adozante (gl) m
• German: Süßstoff (de) m
• Greek: γλυκαντικό (el) m (glykantikó)
• Haitian Creole: edulkoran
• Hebrew: ממתיק m (mamtik)
• Hindi: स्वीटनर (svīṭnar)
• Hungarian: édesítőszer (hu)
• Icelandic: sætuefni m
• Indonesian: pemanis (id)
• Irish: milseoir
• Italian: dolcificante (it) m
• Japanese: 甘味料 (ja) (かんみりょう, kanmiryō)
• Korean: 감미료(甘味料) (gammiryo)
• Kyrgyz: таттуулук (ky) (tattuuluk)
• Latin: dulcedo m
• Latvian: saldinātājs m
• Lithuanian: saldiklis m
• Macedonian: засладувач m (zasladuvač)
• Malay: pemanis
• Maltese: ħlewwa
• Manx: ooreyder
• Mongolian: амт оруулагч (amt oruulagč)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: søtningsmiddel n, søtningsstoff n, søtstoff n

  Nynorsk: søtstoff n

• Pashto: خواږه (ps) (khowaga)
• Persian: شیرین کننده (fa)
• Polish: słodzik (pl) m
• Portuguese: adoçante (pt) m
• Romanian: îndulcitor (ro), zaharină (ro) f
• Russian: подсласти́тель (ru) m (podslastítelʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: mìlseachd
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: заслађивач m

  Roman: zaslađivač m

• Shona: shuga
• Slovak: sladidlo n
• Slovene: sladilo n
• Sotho: natefisa tatso
• Spanish: edulcorante (es) m
• Swedish: sötningsmedel (sv)
• Tagalog: pangpatamis
• Tamil: இனிக்கும் (iṉikkum)
• Telugu: తియ్యని (te) (tiyyani)
• Thai: น้ำตาลเทียม (náamtaan thiiam)
• Turkish: tatlandırıcı
• Ukrainian: підсоло́джувач m (pidsolódžuvač)
• Urdu: سویٹنر (svīṭnar)
• Uzbek: shakar oʻrnini, bosuvchi modda
• Vietnamese: chất ngọt
• Xhosa: nangoku