حرنكش

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Arabic

حَرَنْكَش
 حرنكش on Arabic Wikipedia

Etymology

A disguised حَشِيش حَرَام (ḥašīš ḥarām) in the Egyptian Arabic drug slang language لغة السين (luġit is-sīn), apparently originally meaning a resemblant psychoactive plant, which can be Withania somnifera of the same tribe Physaleae.

Pronunciation

Noun

حَرَنْكَش (ḥarankašm

  1. Cape gooseberry (Physalis peruviana and Physalis gen. et spp.)

Declension

Further reading

  • Martirossian, Tatevik (2013) Raketten van amber – Een etymologisch onderzoek van Egyptisch drugs slang (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Universiteit van Amsterdam, pages 61–63