raisin

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

A dried grape.

Verb

1. (intransitive) Of fruit: to dry out; to become like raisins.
2. (transitive) To flavor (an alcoholic beverage) with fruit that has raisined.
3. (transitive) To add raisins to.
4. (broadly, transitive) To distribute throughout (with small bits or things), to dot or pepper.
5. (ambitransitive) To shrivel.
6. (transitive) To crush or drain, so that all plumpness and vitality is gone.
7. (transitive) To cause to have wrinkles.
8. (intransitive) To form wrinkles; to become wrinkled.

Conceptes

pansa

raïm

Sinònims

currant

plum

grape

dried currant

sultana

cured raisins

uva

Traduccions

Rosine

pasa

σταφίδα

raisin sec

uva passa

rozijn

زبيب

zibibbo

kuru üzüm

uva secca

uvetta

passa

uva passa

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈɹeɪzən/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: raysyn

Cognat amb persa: رز

In summary

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.