hashish

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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.
    • 1875, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, chapter 4, in Eight Cousins‎:
      You know hasheesh is the extract of hemp?
  2. A cannabis extract.
  3. (slang) Marijuana generally.

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Italian

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈaʃ.ʃiʃ/*, (traditional) /aʃˈʃiʃ/*[1]
  • Rhymes: -aʃʃiʃ, (traditional) -iʃ
  • Hyphenation: hà‧shish, (traditional) ha‧shìsh

Noun

hashish m (invariable)

  1. hashish

References

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

Further reading

  • hashish in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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