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HTTP cookie
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English
Etymology
From HTTP + magic cookie.
Pronunciation
en
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-HTTP cookie.wav Southern England
Noun
en 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.
en cookie<qq:ellipsis; the usual term>
en magic cookie#Noun
Translations
packet of information
Afrikaans: af koekie
Arabic: ar كُوكِيز m, ar مِلَفَّات تَعْرِيف الِارْتِبَاط f-p
Armenian: hy թխուկ, hy նշոցիկ, hy կուկի
Bulgarian: bg бискви́тки f-p
Catalan: ca galeta f
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn Cookie, cmn 小型文字檔案 uncommon or formal, cmn 小甜餅 very uncommon and dated
Dutch: nl cookie n
Esperanto: eo kuketo, eo ĵetono
Finnish: fi eväste, fi keksi
French: fr cookie m, fr cafteur m, Canada fr témoin m
Georgian: ka ქუქი-ფაილი, ka ქუქი-ჩანაწერი
German: de Cookie n m
Hindi: hi कुकी
Hungarian: hu süti, hu HTTP-süti
Indonesian: id kuki
Italian: it cookie
Japanese: ja クッキー kukkī
Khmer: km ខូគី
Korean: ko 쿠키
Latvian: lv sīkdatne f
Lithuanian: lt slapùkas m
Malay: ms kuki, ms cecikut
Māori: mi pihikete
Mongolian: mn күүки
Northern Sami: se diehtọčoahkku
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb nettkapsel
Nynorsk: nn nettkapsel
Pannonian Rusyn: rsk колачик m
Persian: fa کوکی kuki
Polish: pl cookie n, pl ciasteczko n
Portuguese: pt cookie m
Romanian: ro cookie n
Russian: ru ку́ки n
Spanish: es cookie mf
Swedish: sv cookie c, sv kaka c recommended by authorities, but relatively rarely used, sv webbkaka c
Tigrinya: ti ኩኪ
Turkish: tr çerez
Ukrainian: uk реп'яшки m-p, uk куки m-p
Yiddish: yi קוקי m
See also
en breadcrumb#Noun element that helps to track things digitally