حشيش

See also: حشیش and خسیس

Arabic

Etymology

From ح ش ش (ḥ-š-š).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ħa.ʃiːʃ/

Noun

حَشِيش (ḥašīš) m (collective, singulative حَشِيشَة (ḥašīša), plural حَشَائِش (ḥašāʾiš))

  1. grass, hay
  2. hemp, cannabis
    Synonym: قِنَّاب (qinnāb)
    1. marijuana
    2. hashish

Declension

Derived terms

  • حَشَّاش (ḥaššāš)
  • حَشَّاشِين (ḥaššāšīn)

Descendants

See also

  • تِبْن (tibn)
  • دَرِيس (darīs)
  • جَفِيف (jafīf)

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1830), حشيش”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 382
  • Löw, Immanuel (1928) Die Flora der Juden (in German), volume 1, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 255–263
  • Wehr, Hans (1979), حش”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, ISBN 0-87950-003-4
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