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Etymology
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Particularly: “The African Roots of Marijuana (Chris S. Duvall) talks about Kimbundu as the source of Brazilian Portuguese diamba”
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Noun
diamba (uncountable)
- (Africa) marijuana
1863, Robert Clarke, “Sketches of the Colony of Sierra Leone and its Inhabitants”, in Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London, volume 2, page 357:They are much addicted to smoking diamba, but many of the other Africans at Sierra Leone likewise indulge in it.
1893, Heli Chatelain, “Bantu Notes and Vocabularies”, in Journal of the American Geographical Society of New York, volume 25, number 4, page 521:On his safe return, loaded with the white man's things, Kishimbu ascribed his good fortune to the inspiration of diamba-smoke. He advised all his people to adopt diamba smoking as a national custom […]
Anagrams
Kongo
Noun
diamba class 5
- hemp
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /d͡ʒiˈɐ̃.bɐ/ , (faster pronunciation) /ˈd͡ʒjɐ̃.bɐ/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /d͡ʒiˈɐ̃.bɐ/ , (faster pronunciation) /ˈd͡ʒjɐ̃.bɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /d͡ʒiˈɐ̃.ba/ , (faster pronunciation) /ˈd͡ʒjɐ̃.ba/
Noun
diamba f (plural diambas)
- (Angola, Brazil) cannabis (plant)
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:canábis
- (Angola, Brazil) cannabis (drug)
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:canábis