English

Sultana raisins

Noun

raisin ‎(plural raisins)

1. A dried grape.

Usage notes

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.

Derived terms

• rabbit raisins
• raisined
• raisinish
• raisinlike
• raisiny

Translations

Verb

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.

Anagrams

• Sirian

French

Etymology

From Old French raisin, from Vulgar Latin *racīmus, from Latin racēmus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɛ.zɛ̃/

Noun

raisin m ‎(plural raisins)

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

Derived terms

Old French

Alternative forms

• resin
• resyn
• reysyn
• raisine f
• raysine f
• reisine f

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *racīmus, from Latin racēmus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rajsĩn/

Noun

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

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

Descendants

• English: raisin
• French: raisin

References

• (fr) 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