cannabis

See also Cannabis

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

Wikipedia

Latin cannabis 'hemp', from Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis), from Scythian (compare Kurdish kinif, Ossetian gän), from a compound of Finno-Ugric *kéne 'hemp' (compare Estonian kena, Lapp kèdž', Udmurt kenem) and *piš 'to burn; nettle' (compare Komi/Udmurt pyš, Khanty piš). This word was borrowed widely into Semitic, Balto-Slavic and Germanic. See hemp.

Noun

cannabis (uncountable)

Cannabis sativa

1. A tall annual dioecious plant (Cannabis, especially Cannabis sativa), native to central Asia and having alternate, palmately divided leaves and tough bast fibers.
2. A mildly euphoriant, intoxicating hallucinogenic drug prepared from various parts of this plant.

Synonyms

• (plant): hemp, marijuana
• (drug): hemp, dope, grass, marijuana, THC, weed, string

Hyponyms

• (plant): Cannabis sativa, Cannabis indica, Cannabis ruderalis

Translations

cannabis

Albanian: kanabis (sq) Arabic: قنب هندي (ar) (qínnab híndiyy) m., قنب (ar) (qínnab) m. Armenian: please add this translation if you can Azeri: kənaf (az), çətənə (az) Bashkir: киндер (kinder) Belarusian: канапля (be) (kanapljá) f., каноплі (be) (kanópli) f. pl. Bengali: গাঁজা (bn) (gañja) Bulgarian: канабис (bg) (kanabis) m. Chinese: Cantonese: 大麻 (daai6 maa4) Mandarin: 大麻 (zh) (dàmá) Czech: konopí (cs) n. Danish: hamp (da) Dutch: hennep (nl) Erzya: мушко (muško) Esperanto: kanabo (eo) Estonian: kanep (et) Finnish: hamppu (1), kannabis (2) French: cannabis (fr) m. Georgian: თამაშები (ka) (t'amašebi) German: Cannabis (de) m., Hanf (de) m. Greek: καννάβεις (el) (kannávis) pl. Hindi: कैनबिस (hi) (kainabis), भांग (hi) (bhā̃ṅg) f. Hungarian: kannabisz (hu) Ido: kanabo (io) Indonesian: ganja (id) Italian: canapa (it) f.

Japanese: 大麻 (ja) (たいま, taima), インド大麻 (ja) (Indo-taima) Khmer: កញ្ឆា (km) (kɑñchʰaa) Komi: пыш (pyš) Korean: 대마 (ko) (daema), 大麻 (ko), 인도 대마 (ko) (Indo daema) Lithuanian: kanapė (lt) f. Malagasy: rongony (mg) Malay: kanabis (ms), ganja (ms) Min Nan: toā-moâ (nan) Mongolian: олс (mn) (ols) Navajo: naakai binátʼoh Norwegian: hamp (no) Persian: شاه‌دانه (fa) (šâh-dâne) Polish: konopie (pl) pl., konopie siewne (pl) pl. Romanian: cânepă (ro) f. Russian: конопля (ru) (konopljá) f. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: канабис (sh) m. Roman: kanabis (sh) m. Spanish: cannabis (es) m., cáñamos (es) m. pl. Swedish: cannabis (sv) c. Tatar: киндер (tt) (kinder) Thai: กัญชา (th) (gan chaa) Turkish: kenevir (tr) Ukrainian: конопля (uk) (konopljá) f. Urdu: بھانگ (ur) (bhāṅg) f. Vietnamese: cần sa (vi)  !Xóõ: gǂkxʻàna (dialectal)

marijuana — see marijuana

See also

• Appendix:Cannabis slang

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ka.na.bis/, SAMPA: /ka.na.bis/

Noun

cannabis m. (usually uncountable)

1. cannabis

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis), from Scythian (compare Kurdish kinif, Ossetian gän), from a compound of Finno-Ugric *kéne 'hemp' (compare Estonian kena, Lapp kèdž', Udmurt kenem) and *piš 'to burn; nettle' (compare Komi/Udmurt pyš, Khanty piš). This word was borrowed widely into Semitic, Balto-Slavic and Germanic. See hemp.

Noun

cannabis

1. hemp

Descendants

English: cannabis, canvas Dalmatian: canapial French: cannabis, chanvre

Italian: canapa Romanian: cânepă Spanish: cáñamo, cannabis

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Spanish

Noun

cannabis m. (usually uncountable)

1. cannabis

See also

• hierba
• marihuana
• mota

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Swedish

Noun

Declension of cannabis

	uncountable		uncountable
Common	indefinite	definite
nominative	cannabis	cannabisen
genitive	cannabis	cannabisens

cannabis c.

1. cannabis; Cannabis sativa
2. cannabis; a recreational drug