HTTP cookie

English

Etymology

From HTTP + magic cookie.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

HTTP cookie (plural HTTP cookies)

1. (Internet) A packet of information sent by a server to a World Wide Web browser and then returned by the browser each time it accesses that server, used to maintain state between otherwise stateless HTTP transactions, for example, to identify the user.

   Synonym: cookie (ellipsis; the usual term)

   Hypernym: magic cookie

Translations

packet of information

• Afrikaans: koekie
• Arabic: كُوكِيز m (kūkīz), مِلَفَّات تَعْرِيف الِارْتِبَاط f pl (milaffāt taʕrīf al-irtibāṭ)
• Armenian: թխուկ (hy) (tʻxuk), նշոցիկ (nšocʻik), կուկի (hy) (kuki)
• Bulgarian: бискви́тки f pl (biskvítki)
• Catalan: galeta (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: Cookie, 小型文字檔案 / 小型文字档案 (xiǎoxíng wénzì dàng'àn) (uncommon or formal), 小甜餅 / 小甜饼 (xiǎotiánbǐng) (very uncommon and dated)

• Dutch: cookie (nl) n
• Esperanto: kuketo, ĵetono
• Finnish: eväste (fi), keksi (fi)
• French: cookie (fr) m, cafteur (fr) m, (Canada) témoin (fr) m, témoin de connexion (fr) m, témoin de navigation (fr) m
• Georgian: ქუქი-ფაილი (kuki-paili), ქუქი-ჩანაწერი (kuki-čanac̣eri)
• German: Cookie (de) n or m
• Hindi: कुकी (kukī)
• Hungarian: süti (hu), HTTP-süti
• Indonesian: kuki (id)
• Italian: cookie (it)
• Japanese: クッキー (ja) (kukkī)
• Khmer: ខូគី (khoukii)
• Korean: 쿠키 (ko) (kuki)
• Latvian: sīkdatne f
• Lithuanian: slapùkas m
• Malay: kuki (ms), cecikut
• Māori: pihikete
• Mongolian: күүки (küüki)
• Northern Sami: diehtọčoahkku
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nettkapsel

  Nynorsk: nettkapsel

• Pannonian Rusyn: колачик m (kolačik)
• Persian: کوکی (fa) (kuki)
• Polish: cookie (pl) n, ciasteczko (pl) n
• Portuguese: cookie (pt) m
• Romanian: cookie n
• Russian: ку́ки (ru) n (kúki)
• Spanish: cookie m or f
• Swedish: cookie (sv) c, kaka (sv) c (recommended by authorities, but relatively rarely used), webbkaka (sv) c
• Tigrinya: ኩኪ (kuki)
• Turkish: çerez (tr)
• Ukrainian: реп'яшки m pl (repʺjašky), куки m pl (kuky)
• Yiddish: קוקי m (kuki)

See also

• breadcrumb (element that helps to track things digitally)