raisin

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.

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

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• Rhymes: -eɪzən

raisin (plural raisins)

1. A dried grape.

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.

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.

• Sirian

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

• IPA^(key): /ʁɛ.zɛ̃/

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raisin m (plural raisins)

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

• “raisin” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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

From Vulgar Latin racīmus, from Latin racēmus.

• IPA^(key): /rajˈzĩn/

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

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

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

• 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