cannabis

See also Cannabis

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

Wikipedia

Latin cannabis 'hemp', from Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis). The term was claimed to ultimately be from Scythian by Herodotus (compare Kurdish kinif, Ossetian gän). It may be 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) but may also be connected to Assyrian qunnabu 'cannabis'. This word wandered widely into Semitic, Baltic, Slavic and Germanic (as *hanapiz). 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 (cmn) (dàmá)

• Czech: konopí (cs) n
• Danish: hamp (da), cannabis (da), hash (da), pot (da)
• Dutch: hennep (nl)
• Erzya: мушко (muško)
• Esperanto: kanabo (eo)
• Estonian: kanep (et)
• Faroese: hampur (fo) m
• Finnish: hamppu (fi), kannabis (fi)
• French: cannabis (fr) m
• Georgian: კანაფი (ka) (kanap'i) 
• 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)

• Jèrriais: cannabis m
• 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)
• Zulu: insangu (zu) 9
• ǃXóõ: gǂkxʻàna (dialectal)

marijuana — see marijuana

See also

• Appendix:Cannabis slang

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French

Pronunciation

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

Noun

cannabis m (usually uncountable)

1. cannabis

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Jèrriais

Etymology

From Latin cannabis, from Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis).

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 (genitive cannabis); f, third declension

1. hemp

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	cannabis	cannabēs
genitive	cannabis	cannabium
dative	cannabī	cannabibus
accusative	cannabim cannabem	cannabīs cannabēs
ablative	cannabī cannabe	cannabibus
vocative	cannabis	cannabēs

Derived terms

• cannabius

Descendants

Aromanian: cãnipã, cãnavi Catalan: cànem, cànnabis Dalmatian: canapial English: cannabis, canvas French: cannabis, chanvre Friulian: čhanaipe Galician: cánabo

Greek: κάνναβη Italian: canapa Jèrriais: cannabis Occitan: cambe, carbe Portuguese: cânhamo, cannabis Romanian: cânepă Sardinian: càgnu, cànnabu 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

cannabis c

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

Declension

Declension of cannabis

	uncountable		uncountable
Common	indefinite	definite
nominative	cannabis	cannabisen
genitive	cannabis	cannabisens