In English we call it "Marshmallow".
What a mysterious and beautiful language.
I mean, “marshmallow” has a more interesting derivation than most of the other words I’ve seen so far.
Althaea officinalis, the marsh mallow or marshmallow, is a species of flowering plant indigenous to Europe, Western Asia and North Africa, which is used in herbalism and as an ornamental plant. A confection made from the root since ancient Egyptian times evolved into today's marshmallow treat.
TIL.
In Icelandic it’s sykurpúði = sugar cushion 😄
This one I can really get behind
I love this so much!
I'm German and that is bullshit. Never heard of mäusespeck, everyone just calls them marshmallows and they are labeled as marshmallows in the store
EDIT: I was made aware that the Problem seems be that im not a boomer. 30 years ago, when i wasnt alive, they seemed to be called this. In my WG there are people over 30 though and they also never heard of this (hessen)
It was absolutely called Mäusespeck when I was a kid, but that's 35+ years ago.
OK that's the point maybe. I wasn't alive back then.
Where do you live? Mäusespeck is even in the Wikipedia article:
Im deutschsprachigen Raum ist die Süßware häufig unter der Produktbezeichnung Mausespeck oder Mäusespeck erhältlich.
Classic Germans discussing about their own language
Mäusespeck exists, but it's something slightly different. It's the sugared rhombus of the fluffy stuff, and packed in those triangle clear bags.
Reading about it, it seems they are in fact all the same. Even the white haribo mice. TIL.
I google "mäusespeck" and I get a picture of marshmallows, and a wikipedia article talking about marshmallows https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Mäusespeck
We call it 棉花糖, which translates to cotton candy... Which gets confusing if we're also talking about cotton candy (the fluffy kind).
Where are you from? I associate that word with cotton Candy but cannot for the life of me think of what a marshmallow is
I’m pretty sure alot of languages just imported marshmallow.
I come from the german speaking part of Switzerland and I don’t think I ever heard someone actually use the word “Mäusespeck” although it certainly would he understood I think. Everybody around me calls them marshmallows.
In Dutch it's also marshmallows, but also commonly spek (bacon), spekjes (bacon pieces) or spekkies (in this case it's clear you're not talking about bacon).
Now you have me curious since this is the second language, why bacon?
The original candy looked like this: https://cdn.webshopapp.com/shops/282420/files/297921342/890x820x1/confiserie-a-lancienne-spekjes-roze-wit-doos-2-kg.jpg
Which with some imagination can be similar to bits of bacon. Marshmallows are somewhat similar candy so the name is used for that too at times.
In our local dialect it's "nunnebiln" ~ nonnenbillen, which I'd translate to nuns buttocks.
We also have nuns farts, but that's another sweet for another day 😆
Julle Nederlanders is maar 'n vreemde volk :p
In Polish we call them pianka, diminutive for foam
Nein, davon weiß ich absolut nichts. Das ist regional allerhöchstens oder ein Synonym für Marshmallow.
Guimauve
Ou mâche-mâlo en bon Québécois.
Quel génie !
That's what is on the French packaging in Canada. In France I've seen Chamallows.
French gang
Same cognate the Spanish but opposite. Hibiscus-mallow
Skumfidus 🇩🇰
"Foam trick" i guess, is the literal translation.
Fidus is a weird word.
Fidus also means dims/dingenot which seems like the more correct use of the word in this context. The translation for that would be thingamajig.
Never heard of that in German. It's just marshmallows with a generic German accent instead. But it's cool to learn something new. Which region says that, OP?
All the regions, just lost in time. It was sold by Haribo under that name in the 80s, it's why you can still get "süße Mäuse" or "weiße Mäuse" from Haribo and why it's generally often presented in mouse-form.
Marshmallow only became more popular when younger generations spoke English more often.
Omg, really ? That makes sense ! I just accepted the mouse thing as a willy wonka side effect. Didn't realize this could be a part of the history
Guimauve or Purple mistletoe for whatever reason.
Because of the plant it used to be made of. It' a Gui Mauve plant in french, or a Marsh Mallow in english. Scientific name: Althaea officinalis
Funny bc I'm not sure we'll called it guimauve in french. Will say it's made out of guimauve and reserve the term guimauve for candy made the same way but with other form and colour.
Also, it's unfortunate that guimauves, including marshmallow, are not gelatinased from marsh mallow roots anymore. It use to be vegan.
So it's not using the idea of "mauve" as in the color in the name but instead the idea of "mallow/malva" as in the plant. In english those ended up being two different words with the same root. The mistletoe actually was originally refering to hibiscus in the latin, but changed. Origin of the confectuary from the marsh mallow plant comes from Ancient Egypt, so this is actually all descended from Latin/Greek
מרשמלו
Mrshmlo for those wondering. Hebrew is a "work out the remaining vowels yourself" language
In Norwegian marshmallow is just marshmallow, but if something has marshmallow bits or marshmallow like properties (like say the white stuff in a bag of Haribos) it's called "skum", which means foam
Yep så etr denn kommentsrn å vurderte zkrive an sjøl.
Malvaviscos. En español.
Cognate with "Mallow hibiscus". It's all the swamp flower in the end. The marshmallow plant sap was originally used to make them.
🤯 marsh mallow, a plant
Also bonbon
Maybe in your country, but I think in most of hispanic would a Bombom or bonbon or whatever, is a chocolate ball.
žužu in Czech (ž as the first sound in Zhukov), but it's often called marshmallow as well (especially the iconic/most common form).
Mályvacukor (hungarian) - translates to mallow candy / mallow sugar
We called it 'pillecukor'.
Yepp. And for the non-hungarian speakers: "pille" is a synonym for "pehely" which is the flake part from e.g. snowflake.
So basically sugarflake.
Mályva is closer to the original latin Malva than even most romance languages do.
Here in Mexico (Spanish) is known as Bombón. A quick Google search says that apparently comes from the repetition of the french word 'bon'
It is worth to mention that, despite most of the countries in Latin America speak Spanish, things have different names in different countries, even if it's the same language.
According to Wikipedia, marshmallows are also known as
nube, esponjita, malvavisco, fringuel, jamón o suncho
"bonbon" in French means candy
My native language is German but I lived in Spain for a long time and there they call them "nubes", clouds.
Malvavisco in Spanish as others mentioned, but in Chile we also call some varieties "guagüitas" (little babies) for some reason
There isn’t a word for it.
Vahukomm in estonian
Foam candy
Just marshmallow in Brazilian Portuguese. Natives tend to pronounce it closer to something more like mah-she-mello, in my experience.
マシュマロ
Japanese
Mashumaro? I guess that works.
Nice username. I'm seeing them in concert next month!
That looks like an ascii emoji.
I Italian they are just "marshmallows", but interesting enough, in the Ghostbuster film Italian's dub it was translated with "gnocchi di lichene".
I'm Italian and I don't have the minimum idea of what the hell is a lichene.
marshmallow or just shmalo
Smello 👃
Esponjitas in spanish (Little sponges)
Some people also call them Nubes (clouds)
Pianki (which is literally just foam in english)
"Spekje" in Dutch
chamallo in french sometimes. otherwise marshmallow
Pianka
"зефир" in Russian, sounds like "zefir"
Is it, really? Зефир is quite different in taste and texture, imo, I would't eat it if I would crave marshmallows and vice versa.
It is sometimes called that, other times it is 'маршмеллоу", which sounds just like marshmallows ("marshmallow").
A marsh melon.
ee: vahukomm = (i forgor)
Direct translation back to English would be "Foam candy"
pillecukor. altough, we really have one kind of marshmallow here, and it's not the one you put into a bonfire or your hot chocolate
