heroin

See also: Heroin, heróín, and hê-rô-in

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛɹ oʊ ɪn/

• Audio (US)

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• Homophone: heroine
• Rhymes: -ɪn

Noun

heroin (countable and uncountable, plural heroins)

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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     The reason why Jon & Kate Plus 8 is such a hot topic is because it might all be a sham. It’s been claimed that Jon has a string of mistresses, that Kate had an affair with her bodyguard and that Baby Number Six is actually a shaved Ewok with a catastrophic heroin addiction. Or something.

   • 2016 October 23, John Oliver, “Opiods”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 27, HBO:

     Yeah, it does, though, it does. Heroin works basically everywhere because it’s heroin. It’s not a cellphone. Heroin has full coverage.

Synonyms

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

Translations

powerful and addictive drug

• Arabic: هِيرُويْن m (hiruyn)
• Armenian: հերոին (heroin)
• Basque: heroina (eu)
• Catalan: heroïna f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 海洛英 (hoi² lok⁶ jing¹)

  Mandarin: 海洛因 (zh) (hǎiluòyīn)

• Czech: heroin m
• Danish: heroin c
• Dutch: heroïne (nl) f
• Esperanto: heroino
• Estonian: heroiin
• Faroese: heroin
• Finnish: heroiini (fi)
• French: héroïne (fr) f
• Galician: heroína f
• German: Heroin (de) n
• Greek: ηρωίνη (el) f (iroíni)
• Hindi: हेरोइन (hero'in)
• Hungarian: heroin (hu)
• Icelandic: heróín n
• Ido: heroeno (io)
• Irish: héaróin

• Italian: eroina (it)
• Japanese: ヘロイン (heroin)
• Korean: 헤로인 (heroin)
• Latin: heroinum
• Latvian: heroīns
• Lithuanian: heroinas
• Macedonian: хероин m (heroín)
• Norwegian: heroin m
• Persian: هروئین (fa)
• Polish: heroina (pl) f
• Portuguese: heroína (pt) f, cavalo (pt) m (slang)
• Russian: герои́н (ru) m (geroín)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: херо̀ӣн m

  Roman: heròīn (sh) m

• Spanish: heroína (es) f
• Swedish: heroin (sv) n
• Thai: เฮโรอีน (th) (hay-roh-een)
• Turkish: eroin (tr)
• Urdu: ہیروئین
• Vietnamese: bạch phiến
• Welsh: heroin

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Czech

Noun

heroin m

1. heroin

Synonyms

• herák

Further reading

• heroin in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
• heroin in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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Danish

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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Japanese

Romanization

heroin

1. Rōmaji transcription of ヘロイン

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /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

Etymology

From German Heroin.

Noun

heroin n

1. heroin

Declension

Declension of heroin

	uncountable		uncountable
Neuter	indefinite	definite
nominative	heroin	heroinet
genitive	heroins	heroinets