raisin

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English[edit]

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Sultana raisins

Etymology[edit]

From Middle English raysyn, borrowed from Anglo-Norman reysin (“grape, raisin”), from Late Latin racīmus, from Latin racēmus. Possibly a distant cognate of Persian رز‎ (raz, “vine”). Doublet of raceme.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈɹeɪzən/
  • (obsolete) IPA(key): /ˈɹiːzən/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪzən

Noun[edit]

raisin (plural raisins)

  1. A dried grape.
    • 2021 July 18, Christopher Flavelle, “Scorched, Parched and Now Uninsurable: Climate Change Hits Wine Country”, in The New York Times‎[1], →ISSN:
      Some of the fruit had turned black and shrunken — becoming, effectively, absurdly high-cost raisins.

Usage notes[edit]

In the USA, raisin refers to any kind of dried grape. In the UK, Australia and New Zealand, raisin is reserved for the dried large dark grape, with sultana meaning the dried large white grape, and currant meaning the dried small Black Corinth grape.

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Descendants[edit]

  • → Japanese: レーズン (rēzun)

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Verb[edit]

raisin (third-person singular simple present raisins, present participle raisining, simple past and past participle raisined)

  1. (intransitive) Of grapes: to dry out; to become like raisins.
    • 2008, John Winthrop Haeger, Pacific Pinot Noir:
      Second-crop fruit tends to show smaller clusters than first-crop, to have a high skin-to-juice ratio, and to be a good blending tool, according to Iantosca, although care must be exercised to ensure that the second-crop berries have not raisined.

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French[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Old French raisin, from Late Latin racīmus, from Latin racēmus. Doublet of racème, a borrowing.

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Noun[edit]

raisin m (plural raisins)

  1. grape
  2. a size of paper (having such a watermark)
  3. a bright red lipstick

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Old French[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Late Latin racīmus, from Latin racēmus.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (archaic) IPA(key): /rai̯ˈzin(ə)/
  • (classical) IPA(key): /rei̯ˈzin(ə)/, (northern) /roi̯ˈzin(ə)/

Noun[edit]

raisin m (oblique plural raisins, nominative singular raisins, nominative plural raisin)

  1. grape
  2. cluster or bunch of grapes
  3. raisin (dried fruit)

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Borrowings:

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