raisin

See also: raisín

English

Sultana raisins

Etymology

From Middle English raysyn, borrowed from Anglo-Norman reysin (“dried sweet grape”), from Old French raisin (“grape”), from Vulgar Latin racīmus, from Latin racēmus. Cognate with Persian رز (raz, “vine”). Doublet of raceme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹeɪzn̩/, /ˈɹeɪzən/
• IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːzən/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪzən

Noun

raisin (plural raisins)

1. A dried grape.

Usage notes

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.

Derived terms

• rabbit raisins
• raisined
• Raisinet
• raisinish
• raisinlike
• raisiny

 

Translations

dried grape

• Arabic: (collective) زَبِيب (ar) (zabīb), زَبِيبَة f (zabība)

  Egyptian Arabic: زبيب m (zabīb) (collective), زبيبة f (zabība) (singulative)

  Moroccan Arabic: زبيب m (zbīb) (collective), زبيبة f (zbība) (singulative)

• Armenian: չամիչ (hy) (čʻamičʻ)
• Assamese: কিচমিচ (kismis)
• Brunei Malay: kismis
• Catalan: pansa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 葡萄乾／葡萄干 (pou⁴ tou⁴ gon¹), 葡萄干 (pou⁴ tou⁴ gon¹), 提子乾／提子干 (tai⁴ zi² gon¹), 提子干 (tai⁴ zi² gon¹)

  Mandarin: 葡萄乾／葡萄干 (zh) (pútáogān), 葡萄干 (zh) (pútáogān)

  Min Nan: 葡萄乾／葡萄干, 葡萄干 (phû-tô-koaⁿ)

• Crimean Tatar: kuru yüzüm
• Czech: rozinka (cs) f, hrozinka (cs) f
• Danish: rosin (da) c
• Dutch: rozijn (nl) f
• Esperanto: sekvinbero
• Estonian: rosin (et)
• Ewe: weintsetse ƒuƒu n
• Finnish: rusina (fi)
• French: raisin sec (fr) m
• Galician: uva pasa (gl) f, pasa (gl) f
• Georgian: ქიშმიში (kišmiši), ჩამიჩი (čamiči)
• German: Rosine (de) f
• Greek: σταφίδα (el) f (stafída)

  Ancient: ἀσταφίς f (astaphís)

• Gujarati: કિસમિસ (kismis)
• Hebrew: צימוק \ צִמּוּק (he) m (tsimuk)
• Hungarian: mazsola (hu), aszalt szőlő (formal)
• Icelandic: rúsína f
• Indonesian: kismis (id)
• Irish: rísín m
• Italian: uvetta (it) f, uva passa f, uva secca f
• Japanese: レーズン (rēzun), 干し葡萄 (ほしぶどう, hoshibudō)
• Korean: 건포도 (ko) (geonpodo) (乾葡萄 (ko))
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• Latin: passa f
• Latvian: rozīne (lv) f
• Lombard: uva passa f, uga passa
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• Macedonian: суво грозје n (suvo grozje)
• Malay: kismis

  Jawi: اڠݢور کريڠ, کيسميس, زبيب

  Rumi: anggur kering, kismis, zabib (ms)

• Maltese: żbib
• Maori: karepe maroke, reihana
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rosin (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: rosin f

• Persian: کشمش (fa) (kešmeš), مویز (fa) (maviz)
• Polish: rodzynka (pl) f, rodzynek (pl) m
• Portuguese: uva passa f, uva-passa f, passa (pt) f
• Romanian: stafidă (ro) f
• Russian: изю́м (ru) m (izjúm) (collective), изю́мина (ru) f (izjúmina)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: суво грожђе n

  Roman: suvo grožđe (sh) n, grožđice pl

• Sicilian: pàssula (scn) f
• Slovak: hrozienko n
• Slovene: rozina (sl) f
• Spanish: pasa (es) f
• Swedish: russin (sv) n
• Tagalog: pasas
• Taos: ùbo’óna
• Thai: เกด (th) (gèet)
• Turkish: kuru üzüm (tr)
• Turkmen: kişmiş
• Ukrainian: родзи́нки (rodzýnky)
• Vietnamese: ^{(please verify)} nho khô
• Welsh: rhesinen (cy) f, rhesins (cy) f pl
• West Frisian: rezyn
• Westrobothnian:
• Yiddish: ראָזשינקע f (rozhinke)
• Yup'ik: isuumayagaq

Verb

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.

Anagrams

• Sirian

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French

Etymology

From Old French raisin, from Vulgar Latin *racīmus, from Latin racēmus. Doublet of racème, a borrowing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɛ.zɛ̃/, /ʁe.zɛ̃/

• audio:

  (file)

Noun

raisin m (plural raisins)

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

Derived terms

• raisin de loup
• raisin de mer
• raisin de renard
• raisin d’ours
• raisin sec

 

Further reading

• “raisin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Old French

Alternative forms

• resin, resyn, reysyn
• raisine, raysine, reisine (feminine)

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin racīmus, from Latin racēmus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rajˈzin/

Noun

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

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

Descendants

• → English: raisin
  • → Japanese: レーズン (rēzun)
• French: raisin

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (raisin, supplement)
• raisin on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub