# heroin
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈhɛɹoʊ.ɪn/
* (US, Canada) IPA: /hɛəɹoʊ.ɪn/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Homophone: heroine
* Rhymes: -ɪn

### Etymology 1

Since the 1890s, from German Heroin, originally a trademark, from Ancient Greek ἥρως (hḗrōs, “hero”) and the suffix -in (“-ine”). Said to have been called thus to evoke quick and sweeping effect as a painkiller and cough suppressant (its original uses). Alternatively explained as a reference to the heroic school of medicine.

#### Noun

heroin (countable and uncountable, plural heroins)
* A powerful and addictive drug derived from opium producing intense euphoria, classed as an illegal narcotic in most of the world. [from late 19th century]
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:heroin
** 1967, “Heroin”, in Lou Reed (music), The Velvet Underground & Nico, performed by The Velvet Underground:Wow, that heroin is in my blood / And the blood is in my head / Yeah, thank God that I'm good as dead / Ooohhh, thank your God that I'm not aware / And thank God that I just don't care / And I guess I just don't know
** 1972, “King Heroin”, in Manny Rosen (lyrics), There It Is, performed by James Brown:I saw a real strange, weird object / Standing up talking to the people / And I found out it was heroin / That deadly drug that go in your veins
** 2009: Stuart Heritage, Hecklerspray, Friday the 22nd of May in 2009 at 1 o’clock p.m., “Jon & Kate Latest: People You Don’t Know Do Crap You Don’t Care About”
    The reason why Jon & Kate Plus 8 is such a hot topic is because it might all be a sham. It’s been claimed that Jon has a string of mistresses, that Kate had an affair with her bodyguard and that Baby Number Six is actually a shaved Ewok with a catastrophic heroin addiction. Or something.
** 2016, Tim Carvell [et al.], “Opiods”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 27, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO:Yeah, it does, though, it does. Heroin works basically everywhere because it’s heroin. It’s not a cellphone. Heroin has full coverage.
** 2017, Tim Carvell [et al.], “Confederacy”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 4, episode 26, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO:Okay, wel-, I’ll tell you where it stops: somewhere! Anytime someone asks, “Where does it stop?”, the answer is always fucking somewhere! You might let your kid have Twizzlers, but not inject black tar heroin! You d-You don’t just go, “Well, after the Twizzlers, where does it stop?”!
** 2019 January 21, Alex Hern, “‘Heroin for middle-class nerds’: how Warhammer conquered gaming”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:That’s because the second thing to know about Games Workshop is, as Gillen says, that Warhammer was what middle-class nerds did instead of heroin. It was just as expensive, and probably no better for your social life.(Can we archive this URL?)

##### Synonyms

* (chemical names): diacetylmorphine, diamorphine
* (street names): Big H, boy, brown, bujj, dope, junk, H, horse, Ron, shit, skag, smack, train, yam yam

##### Derived terms

* brown heroin
* heroin chic
* hillbilly heroin

##### Translations
#### References

* ↑ Marcus Aurin (2000 September) “Chasing the Dragon: The Cultural Metamorphosis of Opium in the United States, 1825-1935”, in Medical Anthropology Quarterly, volume 14, number 3, →DOI, pages 414-441

#### Further reading

* heroin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

heroin (plural heroins)
* Obsolete form of heroine.
** 1710, Eginardus [pseudonym; Delarivier Manley], Memoirs of Europe, Towards the Close of the Eighth Century. […], London: […] John Morphew, […], pages 276–277:Strictly Orthodox, Porcia has bent her Fortune and Applications to the Advantage of the true Religion. In a word, no Perfection is feeble, or ſhines dim in Porcia; all is ſtrenuous, bright, confirm’d, and unexceptionable. She only is worthy to ſupply the Loſs of Ximena, in ſo great a Breaſt as Horatio’s, were Fortune to do what Merit has done, wou’d ſhe not make the Union? Where more juſtly cou’d we beſtow the Charms of a Heroin, who has done all things for Vertue and Honour, than in the Arms of a Hero, who has left nothing undone for Fame and Glory?

### Anagrams

* on hire, Horine, hieron, Hieron, Hœnir

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɦɛroɪn]
* IPA: [ˈɦɛroiːn]

### Noun

heroin m inan
* heroin
    Synonym: herák

#### Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

### Further reading

* “heroin”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
* “heroin”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

## Danish
### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -in

### Noun

heroin c or n (singular definite heroinen or heroinet, uncountable)
* heroin

## Finnish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈheroi̯n/, [ˈhe̞ro̞i̯n]
* Rhymes: -eroin
* Hyphenation: he‧roin

### Noun

heroin
* instructive plural of hera

### Anagrams

* hieron

## Indonesian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English heroin, from German Heroin, originally a trademark, from Ancient Greek ἥρως (hḗrōs, “hero”) and the suffix -in (“-ine”).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /həˈroin/ [həˈro.ɪn]
* Rhymes: -oin
* Syllabification: he‧roin

### Noun

heroin (plural heroin-heroin)
* heroin
    Synonym: (colloquial) putau

### Further reading

* “heroin” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Japanese
### Romanization

heroin
* Rōmaji transcription of ヘロイン

## Serbo-Croatian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /xerǒiːn/
* Hyphenation: he‧ro‧in

### Noun

heròīn m (Cyrillic spelling херо̀ӣн)
* heroin

#### Declension
## Swedish
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Heroin. Attested since 1898.

### Noun

heroin n
* heroin
    Min granne är beroende av heroinMy neighbor is addicted to heroin

#### Related terms

* heroinist

#### Synonyms (slang)

* horse
* häst
* jonk

### References

* heroin in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* heroin in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* heroin in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)