heroin

See also: Heroin, heróín, and hê-rô-in

heroin - English

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.
- Synonyms: see heroin

Arabic: هِيرُويْن‎ m (hiruyn)
Armenian: հերոին (heroin)
Basque: heroina (eu)
Bulgarian: хероин m (heroin)
Catalan: heroïna (ca) f
Chinese:
- Cantonese: 海洛英 (hoi² lok⁶ jing¹), 白粉 (baak⁶ fan²), 灰 (fui¹), 粉 (fan²), 四仔 (sei³ zai²)
- Mandarin: 海洛因 (zh) (hǎiluòyīn), 白麵／白面 (zh) (báimiàn), 白麵兒／白面儿 (zh) (báimiànr), 白粉 (zh) (báifěn)
Czech: heroin m
Danish: heroin c
Dutch: heroïne (nl) f
Esperanto: heroino
Estonian: heroiin
Faroese: heroin
Finnish: heroiini (fi)
French: héroïne (fr) f
Galician: heroína f
German: Heroin (de) n
Greek: ηρωίνη (el) f (iroḯni)
Hindi: हेरोइन (heroin)
Hungarian: heroin (hu)
Icelandic: heróín n
Ido: heroeno (io)
Irish: héaróin
Italian: eroina (it)
Japanese: ヘロイン (ja) (heroin)
Khmer: ហេរ៉ូអ៊ីន (heerouʼiin)
Korean: 헤로인 (heroin)
Latin: heroinum
Latvian: heroīns
Lithuanian: heroinas
Macedonian: херои́н m (heroín)
Norwegian: heroin m
Persian: هروئین‎ (fa)
Polish: heroina (pl) f
Portuguese: heroína (pt) f, cavalo (pt) m (slang)
Romanian: heroină (ro) f
Russian: герои́н (ru) m (geroín)
Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: херо̀ӣн m
- Roman: heròīn (sh) m
Spanish: heroína (es) f
Swahili: heroini
Swedish: heroin (sv) n
Thai: เฮโรอีน (th) (hay-roh-een)
Turkish: eroin (tr)
Urdu: ہیروئین‎ (heroīn)
Vietnamese: bạch phiến
Welsh: heroin