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/
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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