Standard Lemma guide

rosin

name · noun · verb · 6 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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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɹɒz.ən/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • General-American: /ˈɹɑz.ən/
  • dialectal, nonstandard, obsolete, possibly: /ˈɹɑz.əm/
  • dialectal, nonstandard, obsolete, possibly: /ˈɹɔz.əm/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: R AA1 Z AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

A surname.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A solid form of resin, obtained from liquid resin by vaporizing its volatile components.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, organic-chemistry, physical-sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: colophony, Greek pitch

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: resin, naval stores, forest product

3

noun

Meaning 3

Resin.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

verb

Meaning 4

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

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

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

any of a class of solid or semisolid viscous substances obtained either as exudations from certain plants or prepared by polymerization of simple molecules

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: resin

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: organic compound

Narrower terms: East India kino, Malabar kino, kino gum, natural resin, synthetic resin

6

verb

Meaning 6

rub rosin onto

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • rosin the violin bow

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: rub

History

Etymology

* As a German surname, from the noun Rosine (“raisin”). Also Germanized/Americanized from Slavic forms of this word such as Slovene rozina, Lower Sorbian rozyna, themselves borrowed from the German. * As an Italian surname, variant of Rosino, pet form of Roso, itself from both Rosa and Rosso. * As a French surname, pet form or variant of Rose. * As a Serbo-Croatian surname (Rošin), from a variant of Rosko (converged from several meanings, including rod (“relative”)) or Rosic (related to Rosalia, or from rosa (“dew”)). * As a Jewish surname, variant of the Yiddish form of Rose (compare רויז (royz)). * Also as a Jewish surname, Russified from Rosen.

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

Across languages

Translations

67 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: kolofonium — solid form of resin
  • Armenian: կոլոփոն (kolopʻon) — solid form of resin
  • Bashkir: канифоль (kanifolʹ) — solid form of resin
  • Basque: kolofonia — solid form of resin
  • Belarusian: каніфо́ль (kanifólʹ) — solid form of resin
  • Bulgarian: колофо́н (kolofón) — solid form of resin
  • Catalan: colofònia — solid form of resin
  • Chinese Mandarin: 松香 (sōngxiāng) — solid form of resin
  • Chuvash: канифоль (kanifolʹ) — solid form of resin
  • Czech: kalafuna — solid form of resin
  • Danish: kolofonium — solid form of resin
  • Dutch: colofonium — solid form of resin
  • Esperanto: kolofono — solid form of resin
  • Estonian: kolofoonium — solid form of resin
  • Finnish: hartsi — solid form of resin
  • Finnish: kolofoni — solid form of resin
  • French: colophane — solid form of resin
  • German: Kolophonium — solid form of resin
  • Greek: κολοφώνιο (kolofónio) — solid form of resin
  • Hindi: गंधराल (gandhrāl) — solid form of resin
  • Hindi: रोज़िन (rozin) — solid form of resin
  • Hungarian: gyanta — solid form of resin
  • Ido: kolofono — solid form of resin
  • Indonesian: gondorukem — solid form of resin
  • Irish: roisín — solid form of resin
  • Italian: colofonia — solid form of resin
  • Japanese: ロジン (rojin) — solid form of resin
  • Javanese: gandarukem — solid form of resin
  • Kannada: ಗಟ್ಟಿಯಾದ ರಾಳ (gaṭṭiyāda rāḷa) — solid form of resin
  • Kannada: ಕರ್ಪೂರ ರಾಳ (karpūra rāḷa) — solid form of resin
  • Kazakh: канифоль (kanifol) — solid form of resin
  • Korean: 송진 (songjin) — solid form of resin
  • Korean: 로진 (rojin) — solid form of resin
  • Kyrgyz: канифоль (kanifol) — solid form of resin
  • Latvian: kolofonijs — solid form of resin
  • Lithuanian: kanifolija — solid form of resin
  • Macedonian: колофониум (kolofonium) — solid form of resin
  • Eastern Mari: канифоль (kańifoĺ) — solid form of resin
  • Navajo: jeeh sááʼ — solid form of resin
  • Norwegian Bokmål: kolofonium — solid form of resin
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: kolofonium — solid form of resin
  • Occitan: colofònia — solid form of resin
  • Ossetian: канифоль (kanifolʹ) — solid form of resin
  • Pannonian Rusyn: дянта (djanta) — solid form of resin
  • Polish: kalafonia — solid form of resin
  • Portuguese: colofónia — solid form of resin
  • Portuguese: colofônia — solid form of resin
  • Romanian: colofoniu — solid form of resin
  • Romanian: sacâz — solid form of resin
  • Russian: канифо́ль (kanifólʹ) — solid form of resin
  • Serbo-Croatian: коло̀фо̄нӣј — solid form of resin
  • Serbo-Croatian: kolòfōnīj — solid form of resin
  • Slovak: kolofónia — solid form of resin
  • Slovene: kolofonija — solid form of resin
  • Lower Sorbian: kolofonium — solid form of resin
  • Upper Sorbian: kolofonium — solid form of resin
  • Spanish: colofonia — solid form of resin
  • Swedish: kolofonium — solid form of resin
  • Tagalog: koloponya — solid form of resin
  • Tajik: канифол (kanifol) — solid form of resin
  • Thai: ชันสน (chan-sŏn) — solid form of resin
  • Turkish: kolofan — solid form of resin
  • Ottoman Turkish: رچینه (reçine) — solid form of resin
  • Turkmen: kanifol — solid form of resin
  • Ukrainian: каніфо́ль (kanifólʹ) — solid form of resin
  • Welsh: coloffoni — solid form of resin
  • Yakut: канифоль (kanifolʹ) — solid form of resin
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