heroin

See also Heroin

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

Since the 1890s from a German trademark, from Ancient Greek ἥρως (hērōs, “hero”) (due to the feelings of power and exaltation while under the influence of the drug).

Pronunciation

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• Homophone: heroine

Noun

heroin (uncountable)

1. A powerful and addictive drug derived from opium producing intense euphoria classed as an illegal narcotic in most of the world.
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Synonyms

• (chemical names): diacetylmorphine, diamorphine
• (street names): Big H, boy, dope, junk, horse, skag, smack
• See also Wikisaurus:heroin

Translations

powerful and addictive drug

Arabic: هيروين (ar) (hiruin) m. Armenian: հերոին (hy) (heroin) Catalan: heroïna (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 海洛因 (cmn) (hǎiluòyīn) Czech: heroin (cs) m. Danish: heroin (da) c. Dutch: heroïne (nl) f. Esperanto: heroino (eo) Estonian: heroiin (et) Finnish: heroiini (fi) French: héroïne (fr) f. German: Heroin (de) n. Greek: ηρωίνη (el) (iroíni) f. Hindi: हेरोइन (hi) (hero'in) Hungarian: heroin (hu) Icelandic: heróín (is) n. Ido: heroeno (io)

Italian: eroina (it) Japanese: ヘロイン (ja) (heroin) Korean: 헤로인 (ko) (heroin) Macedonian: хероин (mk) (heroín) m. Norwegian: heroin (no) m. Persian: هروئین (fa) Polish: heroina (pl) f. Portuguese: heroína (pt) f. Russian: героин (ru) (geroín) m. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: херо̀ӣн (sh) m. Roman: heròīn (sh) m. Spanish: heroína (es) f. Swedish: heroin (sv) n. Thai: เฮโรอีน (th) (hay-roh-een) Turkish: eroin (tr) Urdu: ہیروئین (ur) Vietnamese: bạch phiến (vi)

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Czech

Noun

heroin m.

1. heroin

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Danish

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Noun

heroin c. n. (singular definite heroinen or heroinet, uncountable)

1. heroin

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eroin

Noun

heroin

1. Instructive plural form of hera.

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /xerǒiːn/
• Hyphenation: he‧ro‧in

Noun

heròīn m. (Cyrillic spelling херо̀ӣн)

1. heroin

Declension

    declension of heroin

	singular
nominative	heròīn
genitive	heroína
dative	heroinu
accusative	heroin
vocative	heroine
locative	heroinu
instrumental	heroinom

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Swedish

Noun

heroin (-et, rarely as plural)

1. heroin