different between raisin vs currents

English

Etymology

From Middle English raysyn, borrowed from Anglo-Norman reysin (“grape, raisin”), from Vulgar Latin rac?mus, from Latin rac?mus. Cognate with Persian ??? (raz, “vine”). Doublet of raceme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?zn?/, /??e?z?n/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /??i?z?n/
• Rhymes: -e?z?n

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

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (r?zun)

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.

Anagrams

• Iranis, Sirian

French

Etymology

From Old French raisin, from Vulgar Latin *rac?mus, from Latin rac?mus. Doublet of racème, a borrowing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.z??/

Noun

raisin m (plural raisins)

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

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Old French

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin rac?mus, from Latin rac?mus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rai??zin/

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

• French: raisin
• Anglo-Norman: reysin
  • ? Middle English: raysyn, raycin, reyson, reysyn, rasyn, rayson, resyn, reyseyn, raysing, racine, resonne, reysynge
    • English: raisin
      • ? Japanese: ???? (r?zun)
    • Scots: raisin, reasin
  • ? Irish: rísín
  • ? Welsh: rhesin
• Picard Old French: roisin
  • ? Middle Dutch: rosine
    • Dutch: rozijn
    • ? Middle High German: ros?n
      • German: Rosine
  • ? Middle Low German: ros?ne
    • ? Danish: rosin

References

• 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

English

Noun

currents

1. plural of current

Anagrams

• Curtners