tonic water

English

Noun

tonic water (countable and uncountable, plural tonic waters)

1. A carbonated beverage containing quinine, originally used as a prophylactic against malaria, and now used as a soft drink or as a mixer in gin and tonic and other cocktails.
   • 2009 Spring, Anthony Dias Blue, “Mixology: Gin & Tonic”, in Drinks, the Magazine of Fine Wine, Spirits, and Living, page 8:

     Tonic water's active ingredient is quinine, a chemical compound derived from the bark of the cinchona tree, native to South America. This alkaloid has long been known to relieve the pain and fever of malaria and other tropical diseases, making it a staple "tonic" in warm-weather countries.

Synonyms

• Indian tonic water

Translations

carbonated beverage

• Arabic: مَاء التُونِك m (māʔ at-tūnik)
• Catalan: tònica (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 奎寧水／奎宁水 (zh) (kuíníngshuǐ)

• Czech: tonik
• Dutch: tonic (nl) m
• Finnish: tonic-vesi
• French: eau tonique (fr) f, soda tonique m
• German: Tonicwasser n, Tonicwater n, Tonic n
• Hungarian: tonik (hu)
• Irish: uisce íocshláinteach
• Italian: acqua tonica (it) f
• Japanese: トニックウォーター (tonikkuwōtā)
• Portuguese: (Brazil) água tônica f, (Portugal) água tónica f
• Russian: то́ник (ru) m (tónik)
• Spanish: tónica (es) f, agua tónica f, (Latin America) aguaquina f
• Swedish: sodavatten (sv) n, tonic (sv), soda (sv) c
• Turkish: tonik (tr)

See also

• soda water

Anagrams

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