rosin

See also: Rosin

English

Etymology

From Old French raisine, rousine, variants of résine. See resin.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɒ.zən/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɑ.zən/

Noun

rosin (countable and uncountable, plural rosins)

1. (organic chemistry) A solid form of resin, obtained from liquid resin by vaporizing its volatile components.
2. Resin.

Synonyms

• colophony
• Greek pitch

Derived terms

• rosin oil
• rosin paper

Translations

solid form of resin

• Afrikaans: kolofonium
• Armenian: կոլոփոն (hy) (kolopʿon)
• Bashkir: канифоль (kanifol’)
• Basque: kolofonia
• Belarusian: каніфо́ль f (kanifólʹ)
• Bulgarian: колофо́н m (kolofón)
• Catalan: colofònia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 松香 (zh) (sōngxiāng)

• Chuvash: канифоль (kanifolʹ)
• Czech: kalafuna f
• Danish: kolofonium n
• Dutch: colofonium (nl) n
• Eastern Mari: канифоль (kanifolʹ)
• Esperanto: kolofono
• Estonian: kolofoonium
• Finnish: hartsi (fi)
• French: colophane (fr) f
• German: Kolophonium (de) n
• Greek: κολοφώνιο (el) n (kolofónio)
• Hindi: गंधराल (gandhrāl), रोज़िन (rozin)
• Ido: kolofono (io)
• Indonesian: gondorukem (id)
• Irish: roisín m
• Italian: colofonia (it) f
• Japanese: ロジン (rojin)
• Javanese: gandarukem
• Kannada: ಗಟ್ಟಿಯಾದ ರಾಳ (kn) (gaṭṭiyāda rāḷa), ಕರ್ಪೂರ ರಾಳ (kn) (karpūra rāḷa)
• Kazakh: канифоль (kanïfolʹ)
• Korean: 송진 (songjin)
• Kyrgyz: канифоль (kanifolʹ)

• Latvian: kolofonijs m
• Lithuanian: kanifolija f
• Macedonian: колофониум m (kolofonium)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kolofonium n

  Nynorsk: kolofonium n

• Occitan: colofònia f
• Ossetian: канифоль (kanifolʹ)
• Polish: kalafonia (pl) f
• Portuguese: colofónia (pt) f, (Brazil) colofônia f
• Romanian: colofoniu (ro) n
• Russian: канифо́ль (ru) f (kanifólʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: коло̀фо̄нӣј m

  Roman: kolòfōnīj (sh) m

• Slovak: kolofónia f
• Slovene: kolofonija f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: kolofonium m

  Upper Sorbian: kolofonium m

• Spanish: colofonia f
• Swedish: kolofonium (sv) n
• Tagalog: koloponya
• Tajik: канифол (kanifol)
• Thai: ชันสน (chan-sŏn)
• Turkish: kolofan (tr)
• Turkmen: kanifol
• Ukrainian: каніфо́ль f (kanifólʹ)
• Welsh: coloffoni m
• Yakut: канифоль (kanifol’)

liquid resin — see resin

Verb

rosin (third-person singular simple present rosins, present participle rosining, simple past and past participle rosined)

1. (transitive) To apply rosin to (something); to rub or cover with rosin.

   We waited expectantly as the guest violinist rosined his bow in preparation for playing.

Anagrams

• Irons, Orins, RINOs, Rison, Sinor, inros, irons, noirs, noris, ornis, roins, siron

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Danish

Etymology

From Middle Low German rosin, rosine, from Old French rosin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rosin/, [ʁoˈsiˀn]
• Rhymes: -in

Noun

rosin c (singular definite rosinen, plural indefinite rosiner)

1. raisin

Declension

Declension of rosin

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	rosin	rosinen	rosiner	rosinerne
genitive	rosins	rosinens	rosiners	rosinernes

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin racemus, via French raisin

Noun

rosin f or m (definite singular rosina or rosinen, indefinite plural rosiner, definite plural rosinene)

1. raisin

References

• “rosin” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin racemus, via French raisin

Noun

rosin f (definite singular rosina, indefinite plural rosiner, definite plural rosinene)

1. raisin

References

• “rosin” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Volapük

Noun

rosin (nominative plural rosins)

1. raisin

Declension

declension of rosin

	singular	plural
nominative	rosin	rosins
genitive	rosina	rosinas
dative	rosine	rosines
accusative	rosini	rosinis
vocative 1	o rosin!	o rosins!
predicative 2	rosinu	rosinus

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only