powdered sugar

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpaʊ.dəd ˈʃʊɡ.ə/
• (US) enPR: pouʹdərd sho͝ogʹər, IPA^(key): /ˈpaʊ.dɚd ˈʃʊɡ.ɚ/

Noun

powdered sugar (usually uncountable, plural powdered sugars)

1. (US) Very finely ground sugar to which cornstarch is added to prevent lumping, mostly used in icings and confections to produce a smooth texture.

Synonyms

• icing sugar (Canada, UK)
• confectioners' sugar or confectioners sugar (Eastern US)
• pulverized sugar

Translations

very finely ground sugar used in icings, etc

• Bulgarian: пудра захар f (pudra zahar)
• Catalan: sucre de llustre m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 糖霜 (tong⁴ soeng¹)

  Mandarin: 糖粉 (zh) (tángfěn)

• Czech: práškový cukr, cukr moučka m
• Danish: flormelis (da)
• Dutch: poedersuiker (nl) m
• Esperanto: glazursukero
• Faroese: florsukur n
• Finnish: tomusokeri (fi)
• French: sucre glace (fr) m, sucre à glacer (fr) m (Canada), sucre en poudre (fr) m (Canada, colloquial), sucre impalpable (fr) m (Belgium)
• Galician: azucre glas (gl) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Puderzucker (de) m, Staubzucker (de) m (Austria)
• Hungarian: porcukor (hu)
• Icelandic: flórsykur (is)
• Italian: zucchero a velo m
• Japanese: 粉砂糖 (こなざとう, konazatō)
• Maori: puehu huka
• Norwegian: melis
• Polish: cukier puder (pl) m
• Portuguese: açúcar de confeiteiro m
• Romanian: zahăr pudră n
• Russian: са́харная пу́дра (ru) f (sáxarnaja púdra)
• Slovak: práškový cukr m
• Spanish: azúcar flor (es), azúcar glas (es) m, azúcar glasé m
• Swedish: florsocker (sv) n
• Turkish: pudra şekeri (tr)
• Ukrainian: цукро́ва пу́дра f (cukróva púdra)

References

• Irma Starkloff Rombauer and Marion Rombauer Becker, The Joy of Cooking (1975, Bobbs-Merrill)