ayahuasca

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English

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Etymology

From Spanish ayahuasca, from Quechua ayawaska, from aya (“spirit, ancestor”) + waska (“vine”). First use appears c. 1870. See cite below.

Pronunciation

Noun

ayahuasca (usually uncountable, plural ayahuascas)

  1. A giant vine native to South America (especially Banisteriopsis caapi), noted for its psychotropic properties.
  2. Any of various psychoactive infusions or decoctions prepared from this vine.
    Synonym: yage
    • 1870, James Orton, The Andes and the Amazon, Or, Across the Continent of South America, page 171:
      They make use of a narcotic drink called Ayahuasca, which produces effects similar to those of opium.
    • 2004, Martin Torgoff, “Nouveau Psychedelia”, in Can’t Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945–2000, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 414:
      As the Amazon forest people would take ayahuasca and enter into that place of Group Mind where they would make decisions for the tribe, the psychedelic shamanic acts that McKenna was promulgating would involve the experience of ecstasy and the contemplation of wholeness.
    • 2020, Emily Segal, Mercury Retrograde, New York: Deluge Books, →ISBN:
      Like many young women in that cultural era, she was excited to explain ayahuasca, and informed me that her appointment was scheduled for next week, when she would be leaving New York to visit family in Rio.

Translations

Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

ayahuasca f

  1. ayahuasca

Declension

Declension of ayahuasca (hard feminine reducible)
singular plural
nominative ayahuasca ayahuascy, ayahuasky
genitive ayahuascy, ayahuasky ayahuasek
dative ayahuasce ayahuascám, ayahuaskám
accusative ayahuascu, ayahuasku ayahuascy, ayahuasky
vocative ayahuasco, ayahuasko ayahuascy, ayahuasky
locative ayahuasce ayahuascách, ayahuaskách
instrumental ayahuascou, ayahuaskou ayahuascami, ayahuaskami

French

Pronunciation

Noun

ayahuasca m (uncountable)

  1. ayahuasca

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

Noun

ayahuasca f (plural ayahuascas)

  1. ayahuasca (Banisteriopsis caapi, a vine of South America)
    Synonym: iagê
  2. ayahuasca (psychoactive infusion made from the ayahuasca vine)
    Synonym: daime

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Quechua ayawaska.

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /aʝaˈwaska/
  • IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /aʃaˈwaska/
  • IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /aʒaˈwaska/

  • Rhymes: -aska
  • Syllabification: a‧ya‧huas‧ca

Noun

ayahuasca f (plural ayahuascas)

  1. ayahuasca
  2. a psychotropic concoction prepared from said vine

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → English: ayahuasca

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