dagga

Borrowed from Afrikaans dagga, from Nama daxab.

• (General South African) IPA^(key): /ˈdaɡə/, /ˈdaxa/

dagga (countable and uncountable, plural daggas)

1. (South Africa, Zimbabwe) Indian hemp, Cannabis sativa indica, or a similar plant of the genus Leonotis.
   • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 217:

     He started to supplement them by smuggling dagga, and soon found it so profitable that he left the factory altogether.

   • 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon:

     A few basic points, Sir. First, no unnatural Activities. Second, no Opium, no Dagga, no Ardent Spirits, no Wine, and so on.

From Shona [Term?].

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɑːɡə/

dagga (uncountable)

1. (South Africa) Cement.

Borrowed from Nama daxab.

• IPA^(key): /ˈda.χa/

dagga (uncountable)

1. cannabis

• daggazol

• → Dutch: dagga
• → English: dagga

dagga

1. turtle

Borrowed from Afrikaans dagga, from Nama daxab.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɑ.ɣaː/
• Hyphenation: dag‧ga

dagga m (uncountable)

1. (rare) cannabis, weed [from early 20th c.]

See the etymology of the main entry.

dagga

1. indefinite genitive plural of dögg