hemp

From Middle English hemp, hempe, henpe, henoppe, henepe, henep, hanep, from Old English henep, hænep (“hemp”), from Proto-Germanic *hanapiz. Doublet of cannabis and canvas.

• IPA^(key): /hɛmp/
• Rhymes: -ɛmp

hemp (countable and uncountable, plural hemps)

1. A tall annual herb, Cannabis sativa, native to Asia.
2. Various products of this plant, including fibres and the drug cannabis.

• hempen
• hempish
• hemplike
• hempy

• cannabis
• marijuana
• ganja
• bhang
• THC

• meph

From Dutch hemd (“shirt”), from Middle Dutch hemde, hemede, from Old Dutch *hemithi, from Proto-Germanic *hamiþiją. Cognate with German Hemd, Yiddish העמד‎ (hemd).

• IPA^(key): /ɦɛmp/

hemp (plural hemde, diminutive hempie)

1. shirt

• Note that the original -d- resurfaces in the plural hemde, but not in the diminutive.

• T-hemp

• hempe, henpe, henoppe, henepe, henep, hanep, henppe

From Old English henep, hænep (“hemp”), from Proto-Germanic *hanapiz; cognate to Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis).

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛmp/, /ˈhɛn(ə)p/

hemp (uncountable)

1. Hemp (Cannabis sativa).
2. Hempen fibre or products made of it.

• hempen

• English: hemp
• Scots: hemp, hempt

• “hemp (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-1-7.