Standard Lemma guide

raisin

name · noun · verb · 11 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /ˈɹeɪzən/
  • /ˈɹeɪzɪn/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • obsolete: /ˈɹiːzən/
  • rhymes with -eɪzən
  • CMU ARPABET: R EY1 Z IH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

A surname.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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2

noun

Meaning 2

A dried grape.

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3

verb

Meaning 3

Of fruit: to dry out; to become like raisins.

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Usage: intransitive

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4

verb

Meaning 4

To flavor (an alcoholic beverage) with fruit that has raisined.

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Usage: transitive

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5

verb

Meaning 5

To add raisins to.

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Usage: transitive

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6

verb

Meaning 6

To distribute throughout (with small bits or things), to dot or pepper.

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Usage: broadly, transitive

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7

verb

Meaning 7

To shrivel.

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Usage: ambitransitive

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8

verb

Meaning 8

To crush or drain, so that all plumpness and vitality is gone.

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Usage: transitive

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9

verb

Meaning 9

To cause to have wrinkles.

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Usage: transitive

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10

verb

Meaning 10

To form wrinkles; to become wrinkled.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive

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11

noun

Meaning 11

dried grape

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Broader terms: dried fruit

Narrower terms: seedless raisin, sultana, seeded raisin, currant

History

Etymology

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.

Across languages

Translations

117 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: زَبِيب (zabīb) — dried grape
  • Arabic: زَبِيبَة (zabība) — dried grape
  • Arabic: زبيب (zabīb) — dried grape
  • Arabic: زبيبة (zabība) — dried grape
  • Arabic: زبيب (zbīb) — dried grape
  • Arabic: زبيبة (zbība) — dried grape
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܲܒܝܼܫܵܐ (abīšā) — dried grape
  • Armenian: չամիչ (čʻamičʻ) — dried grape
  • Assamese: কিচমিচ (kismis) — dried grape
  • Asturian: pasa — dried grape
  • Belarusian: разы́нка (razýnka) — dried grape
  • Bengali: কিশমিশ (kiśmiś) — dried grape
  • Bulgarian: стафида (stafida) — dried grape
  • Catalan: pansa — dried grape
  • Chinese Cantonese: 葡萄乾 /葡萄干 (pou4 tou4 gon1) — dried grape
  • Chinese Cantonese: 提子乾 /提子干 (tai4 zi2 gon1) — dried grape
  • Chinese: 葡萄乾 /葡萄干 (phû-tô-koan) — dried grape
  • Chinese Mandarin: 葡萄乾 /葡萄干 (pútáogān) — dried grape
  • Cornish: figys howl — dried grape
  • Cornish: resin — dried grape
  • Crimean Tatar: kuru yüzüm — dried grape
  • Czech: rozinka — dried grape
  • Czech: hrozinka — dried grape
  • Danish: rosin — dried grape
  • Dutch: rozijn — dried grape
  • Esperanto: sekvinbero — dried grape
  • Estonian: rosin — dried grape
  • Ewe: weintsetse ƒuƒu — dried grape
  • Faroese: rosina — dried grape
  • Finnish: rusina — dried grape
  • French: raisin sec — dried grape
  • West-Frisian: rezyn — dried grape
  • Galician: uva pasa — dried grape
  • Galician: pasa — dried grape
  • Georgian: ქიშმიში (kišmiši) — dried grape
  • Georgian: ჩამიჩი (čamiči) — dried grape
  • German: Rosine — dried grape
  • Greek: σταφίδα (stafída) — dried grape
  • Ancient Greek: ἀσταφίς (astaphís) — dried grape
  • Gujarati: કિસમિસ (kismis) — dried grape
  • Hebrew: צימוק \ צִמּוּק (tsimuk) — dried grape
  • Hindi: किशमिश (kiśmiś) — dried grape
  • Hindi: मुनक्का (munakkā) — dried grape
  • Hindi: दाख (dākh) — dried grape
  • Hungarian: mazsola — dried grape
  • Hungarian: aszalt szőlő — dried grape
  • Icelandic: rúsína — dried grape
  • Indonesian: kismis — dried grape
  • Irish: rísín — dried grape
  • Italian: uvetta — dried grape
  • Italian: uva passa — dried grape
  • Italian: uva secca — dried grape
  • Japanese: レーズン (rēzun) — dried grape
  • Japanese: 干し葡萄 (hoshibudō) — dried grape
  • Kazakh: мейіз (meiız) — dried grape
  • Korean: 건포도 (geonpodo) — dried grape
  • Central Kurdish: مێوژ (mêwj) — dried grape
  • Northern Kurdish: mêwîj — dried grape
  • Latin: passa — dried grape
  • Latvian: rozīne — dried grape
  • Lithuanian: razina — dried grape
  • Lombard: uva passa — dried grape
  • Lombard: uga passa — dried grape
  • Macedonian: суво грозје (suvo grozje) — dried grape
  • Malay: kismis — dried grape
  • Malay: anggur kering — dried grape
  • Malay: zabib — dried grape
  • Brunei Malay: kismis — dried grape
  • Malayalam: ഉണക്കമുന്തിരി (uṇakkamuntiri) — dried grape
  • Malayalam: കിസ്മിസ് (kismisŭ) — dried grape
  • Maltese: żbib — dried grape
  • Māori: karepe maroke — dried grape
  • Māori: reihana — dried grape
  • Mongolian: үзэм (üzem) — dried grape
  • Mongolian: үзмийн хадаамал (üzmiin xadaamal) — dried grape
  • Mongolian: ᠦᠵᠦᠮ (üǰüm) — dried grape
  • Mongolian: ᠦᠵᠦᠮ ᠦᠨ ᠬᠠᠳᠠᠭᠠᠮᠠᠯ (üǰüm-ün qadaɣamal) — dried grape
  • Norwegian Bokmål: rosin — dried grape
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: rosin — dried grape
  • Persian: کشمش (kešmeš) — dried grape
  • Persian: مویز (maviz) — dried grape
  • Polish: rodzynka — dried grape
  • Polish: rodzynek — dried grape
  • Portuguese: uva passa — dried grape
  • Portuguese: uva-passa — dried grape
  • Portuguese: passa — dried grape
  • Romanian: stafidă — dried grape
  • Russian: изю́м (izjúm) — dried grape
  • Russian: изю́мина (izjúmina) — dried grape
  • Serbo-Croatian: суво грожђе — dried grape
  • Serbo-Croatian: suvo grožđe — dried grape
  • Serbo-Croatian: grožđice — dried grape
  • Sicilian: pàssula — dried grape
  • Slovak: hrozienko — dried grape
  • Slovene: rozina — dried grape
  • Lower Sorbian: rozyna — dried grape
  • Spanish: pasa — dried grape
  • Spanish: pansa — dried grape
  • Spanish: pasita — dried grape
  • Spanish: acebibe — dried grape
  • Spanish: uva pasa — dried grape
  • Spanish: uva pansida — dried grape
  • Swedish: russin — dried grape
  • Tagalog: pasas — dried grape
  • Taos: ùboʼóna — dried grape
  • Thai: เกด (gèet) — dried grape
  • Tigrinya: ዘቢብ (zäbib) — dried grape
  • Turkish: kuru üzüm — dried grape
  • Ottoman Turkish: كشمش (kişmiş) — dried grape
  • Turkmen: kişmiş — dried grape
  • Ugaritic: 𐎕𐎎𐎖 (ṣmq) — dried grape
  • Ukrainian: родзи́нки (rodzýnky) — dried grape
  • Vietnamese: nho khô — dried grape
  • Welsh: rhesinen — dried grape
  • Welsh: rhesins — dried grape
  • Yiddish: ראָזשינקע (rozhinke) — dried grape
  • Yup'ik: isuumayagaq — dried grape