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 m (hiruin)
• Armenian: հերոին (heroin)
• Catalan: heroïna f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 海洛因 (zh) (hǎiluòyīn)

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

• Italian: eroina (it)
• Japanese: ヘロイン (heroin)
• Korean: 헤로인 (heroin)
• Macedonian: хероин m (heroín)
• Norwegian: heroin m
• Persian: هروئین (fa)
• Polish: heroina (pl) f
• Portuguese: heroína (pt) f
• Russian: героин (ru) m (geroín)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: херо̀ӣн m

  Roman: heròīn m

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

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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^(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

Noun

heroin (-et, rarely as plural)

1. heroin