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Borrowed from Arabic حَشِيش (ḥašīš, “hay, dried herb”).
hashish (usually uncountable, plural hashishes)
- The leaves and tender parts of the Indian hemp plant (which are intoxicating), which are dried for either chewing or smoking.
- 1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah, Dover, published 1964, page 44:
Coyly at first, but less guardedly as we grew bolder, we smoked the forbidden weed "Hashísh," conversing lengthily the while about that world of which I had seen so much.
- 1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah, Dover, published 1964, page 44:
- A cannabis extract.
- (slang) Marijuana generally.
See also Thesaurus:marijuana
dried leaves of the Indian hemp plant
Albanian: hashish m
Amharic: ሃሺሽ (hašiš)
Arabic: حَشِيش (ar) m (ḥašīš)
Egyptian Arabic: حشيش m (ḥašīš)Azerbaijani: həşiş
Belarusian: гашы́ш m (hašýš)
Bulgarian: хаши́ш m (hašíš)
Burmese: ဘင်း (my) (bhang:), ဆေးခြောက် (my) (hce:hkrauk), ဂန်ဂျာ (my) (gan-gya)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 大麻 (zh) (dàmá), 哈希什 (hāxīshí), 印度大麻 (Yìndù dàmá)Esperanto: haŝiŝo
Estonian: hašiš
Faroese: hassj n
French: haschich (fr) m, haschisch (fr) m, hachisch (fr) m, hachich (fr) m
Galician: haxix m
Gujarati: ગાંજો (gā̃jo)
Irish: haisis f
Italian: hascish m
Kashubian: haszisz m
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: بەنگ (beng)Latvian: hašišs m
Lithuanian: hašišas m
Macedonian: хашиш m (hašiš)
Swahili: hashishi
Ukrainian: гаши́ш m (hašýš)
Uyghur: نەشە (neshe)
Transliteration of Arabic حَشِيش (ḥašīš, “hay, dried herb”).
- IPA(key): /ˈaʃ.ʃiʃ/*, (traditional) /aʃˈʃiʃ/*[1]
- Rhymes: -aʃʃiʃ, (traditional) -iʃ
- Hyphenation: hà‧shish, (traditional) ha‧shìsh
hashish m (invariable)
^ hashish in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
- hashish in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana