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Borrowed from Arabic حَشِيش (ḥašīš, “hay, dried herb”).

hashish (usually uncountable, plural hashishes)

  1. 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.
  2. A cannabis extract.
  3. (slang) Marijuana generally.

dried leaves of the Indian hemp plant

Transliteration of Arabic حَشِيش (ḥašīš, “hay, dried herb”).

hashish m (invariable)

  1. hashish

  2. ^ hashish in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)