currant

English

Pronunciation

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• (UK) IPA: /ˈkʌɹənt/
• (US) IPA: /ˈkɜːɹənt/

Etymology

French raisins de Corinthe, raisins (grapes?) of Corinth, the city in Greece.

Noun

currant (plural currants)

1. A small dried grape, usually the Black Corinth grape, rarely more than 4mm diameter when dried.
2. The fruit of various shrubs of the genus Ribes, either white, black or red.
3. A shrub bearing such fruit.

Derived terms

• blackcurrant
• redcurrant
• whitecurrant

Translations

small dried grape

• Bulgarian: стафида (bg) (stafida) f
• Dutch: krent (nl) f
• Finnish: korintti (fi)
• French: raisin de Corinthe (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Korinthe f

• Greek: κορινθιακή σταφίδα (el) (korinthiakí stafidá) f
• Italian: uva di Corinto f, uva secca f
• Russian: коринка (ru) (korínka) f, сабза (ru) (sabzá) f
• Spanish: pasa de Corinto
• Turkish: kuş üzümü (tr), Frenk üzümü (tr)

fruit

• Afrikaans: aalbessievla (af), aalbes (af)
• Armenian: հաղարջ (hy) (haġarǰ)
• Bulgarian: френско грозде (bg) (frensko grozde) n
• Catalan: grosella (ca) f
• Czech: rybíz (cs) m
• Danish: solbær (da)
• Dutch: aalbes (nl) f
• Esperanto: ribo (eo)
• Finnish: herukka (fi), viinimarja (fi)
• French: groseille (fr) f
• Georgian: მოცხარის (ka) (mots'kharis)
• German: Johannisbeere (de) f
• Hungarian: ribizli (hu), ribiszke (hu)
• Irish: cuiríní (ga)
• Italian: ribes (it)

• Jèrriais: gradile f
• Kannada: ಕರ್ರಂಟ್ (te) (karraṇṭ)
• Latvian: upene (lv) f
• Macedonian: рибизла (mk) (ríbizla) f
• Norwegian: rips (no) m, ripsbær (no) n
• Polish: porzeczka (pl) f
• Portuguese: groselha (pt) f
• Russian: смородина (ru) (smoródina) f
• Serbo-Croatian: ribiz (sh) m
• Slovene: ribez (sl) m
• Spanish: grosella (es)
• Swedish: vinbär (sv) n
• Tagalog: kurant (tl)
• Telugu: ఎండుద్రాక్ష (te) (eṇḍudrākṣa)
• Turkish: kuş üzümü (tr), Frenk üzümü (tr)

bush

• Finnish: viinimarja (fi), viinimarjapensas (fi)
• French: groseillier (fr) m
• Macedonian: рибизла (mk) (ríbizla) f

• Norwegian: ripsbærbusk (no) c
• Russian: смородина (ru) (smoródina) f
• Serbo-Croatian: ribiz (sh) m

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• Georgian: მოცხარი (ka) (moc'xari)

See also

• date
• raisin
• sultana

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Latin

Verb

currant

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of currō
   1. "may they run, may they gallop"
   2. "may they hurry, may they hasten, may they speed"
   3. "may they move, may they travel, may they proceed"