cannabis

See also: Cannabis

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cannabis (“hemp”), from Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis). See there for more. Doublet of canvas and hemp.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkænəbɪs/

Noun

cannabis (countable and uncountable, plural cannabises)

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.

   Synonyms: hemp, marijuana

   Hyponyms: Cannabis sativa, Cannabis indica, Cannabis ruderalis

2. A mildly euphoriant or sedating, intoxicating hallucinogenic drug prepared from various parts of this plant.

   Synonyms: bhang, dope, ganja, grass, marijuana, string, THC, weed

3. The purified and decarboxylated resin of the cannabis plant used for medicinal purposes rather than for any intoxicating effects.

Derived terms

• cannabidiol
• cannabinoid
• cannabinol

 

Translations

plant

• Albanian: kanabis ?
• Arabic: قِنَّب هِنْدِيّ m (qinnab hindiyy), قِنَّب m (qinnab)
• Armenian: կանեփ (hy) (kanepʻ)
• Asturian: cáñamu m
• Azerbaijani: kənaf, çətənə
• Bashkir: киндер (kinder), тарма (tarma)
• Belarusian: канапля́ f (kanapljá), кано́плі f pl (kanópli)
• Bengali: গাঁজা (bn) (gãja)
• Bulgarian: канабис m (kanabis)
• Burmese: ဆေးခြောက် (my) (hce:hkrauk)
• Catalan: cànem (ca) m, cànnabis (ca) m
• Chechen: кӏомал (kʼomal)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 大麻 (daai⁶ maa⁴)

  Mandarin: 大麻 (zh) (dàmá)

• Coptic: ⲉⲣⲃⲓⲥⲓ m (erbisi)
• Czech: konopí (cs) n
• Danish: hamp ?, cannabis ?, hash ?, pot (da) ?
• Dargwa: къама (ɢama)
• Dutch: hennep (nl) ?, cannabis (nl) m or f
• Erzya: мушко (muško)
• Esperanto: kanabo
• Estonian: kanep
• Faroese: hampur m
• Finnish: hamppu (fi), kannabis (fi)
• French: cannabis (fr) m
• Galician: cánabo m
• Georgian: კანაფი (ḳanapi)
• German: Cannabis (de) m, Hanf (de) m
• Greek: καννάβεις pl (kannáveis)
• Hebrew: קנאביס (he) m (kan'avis)
• Hindi: कैनबिस ? (kainbis), भांग (hi) f (bhāṅg)
• Hungarian: kannabisz (hu)
• Ido: kanabo (io)
• Indonesian: ganja (id)
• Irish: cannabas m
• Italian: canapa (it) f
• Japanese: 大麻 (たいま, taima), インド大麻 (Indo-taima)
• Kalmyk: олсн (olsn)
• Khmer: កញ្ឆា (km) (kɑñchʰaa)
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• Komi-Zyrian: пыш (pyš)
• Korean: 대마 (ko) (daema), 大麻 (ko), 인도 대마 (indo daema)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: kinif (ku), kindir (ku)

• Lak: ницӏайхъува (nicʼayquwa)
• Lithuanian: kanapė f
• Malagasy: rongony (mg)
• Malay: kanabis, ganja
• Maori: taru rauhea, tarukino
• Min Nan: toā-moâ
• Mingrelian: კიფი (ḳipi)
• Mongolian: олс (mn) (ols)
• Navajo: naakai binátʼoh
• Newar: क्यानाबिस (kyānābisa)
• Norman: cannabis m (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hamp m

  Nynorsk: hamp m

• Persian: شاه‌دانه (šâh-dâne)
• Polish: konopie (pl) pl, konopie siewne pl
• Portuguese: cânabis (pt) f, pé-de-maconha m
• Romanian: cânepă (ro) f
• Russian: конопля́ (ru) f (konopljá)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ко̀нопља f, ка̀набис m, поскон f

  Roman: kònoplja (sh) f, kànabis (sh) m, poskon f

• Spanish: cannabis (es) m, cáñamo (es) m
• Swahili: mbangi
• Swedish: cannabis (sv) c
• Tamil: சணப்பு (ta) (caṇappu), சணப்பை (ta) (caṇappai)
• Tatar: киндер (tt) (kinder)
• Thai: กัญชา (th) (gan-chaa)
• Turkish: kenevir (tr)
• Ukrainian: конопля́ f (konopljá)
• Urdu: بھانگ f (bhāṅg)
• Vietnamese: cần sa
• Welsh: cywarch m
• Yiddish: ^{(please verify)} האַנףֿ m (hanf), ^{(please verify)} קאָנאָפּליע m (konoplye)
• Zulu: insangu class 9
• ǃXóõ: gǂkxʻàna (dialectal)

marijuana — see marijuana

See also

• Appendix:Cannabis slang

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cannabis, from Ancient Greek κάννᾰβῐς (kánnabis).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑ.naːˌbɪs/
• Hyphenation: can‧na‧bis

Noun

cannabis f (uncountable)

1. cannabis

   Synonyms: hennep, wiet

Derived terms

• cannabisgebruiker
• cannabisolie
• cannabisplant
• cannabisproduct
• cannabist

 

Related terms

• canvas
• hennep

 

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cannabis, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis). Doublet of chanvre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.na.bis/

Noun

cannabis m (uncountable)

1. cannabis

Further reading

• “cannabis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Latin

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis). See there for more.

Alternative forms

• cannaba, cannabum, cannabus, canapus, canapa, canapis, canva (Late Latin)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkan.na.bis/, [ˈkänːäbɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkan.na.bis/, [ˈkänːäbis]

Noun

cannabis f (genitive cannabis); third declension

1. hemp

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -im, ablative singular in -e or -ī).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cannabis	cannabēs
Genitive	cannabis	cannabium
Dative	cannabī	cannabibus
Accusative	cannabim	cannabēs cannabīs
Ablative	cannabe cannabī	cannabibus
Vocative	cannabis	cannabēs

Derived terms

• cannabius

Descendants

• Albanian: kërp (borrowing)
• Aromanian: cãnipã
• Asturian: cáñamu
• Catalan: cànnabis (borrowing), cànem
• Dalmatian: canapial
• English: cannabis (borrowing), canvas (through Old Northern French)
• French: cannabis (borrowing), chanvre
• Friulian: cjanaipe, čhanaipe
• German: Cannabis (borrowing)
• Galician: cánnabis (borrowing), cánabo
• Greek: κάνναβη (kánnavi) (or directly from Ancient Greek)
• Irish: cannabas, cnáib
• Italian: cannabis (borrowing), canapa
• Megleno-Romanian: cǫnipă

• Norman: cannabis (borrowing), cannevi
• Occitan: canabís (borrowing), cambe, carbe
• Portuguese: canábis (borrowing), cânhamo
• Romanian: canabis (borrowing), cânepă
• Romansch: chonv, coniv, tgonev, chanv
• Sardinian: càgnu, cànnabu
• Sicilian: cànnavu, cànavu, cànnamu
• Spanish: cannabis (borrowing), cáñamo
• Venetian: caneva

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkan.na.biːs/, [ˈkänːäbiːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkan.na.bis/, [ˈkänːäbis]

Noun

(deprecated template usage) cannabīs

1. dative/ablative plural of cannabum

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkan.na.biːs/, [ˈkänːäbiːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkan.na.bis/, [ˈkänːäbis]

Noun

(deprecated template usage) cannabīs

1. dative/ablative plural of cannaba

References

• “cannabis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cannabis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Norman

Etymology

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

Noun

cannabis m (uncountable)

1. (Jersey) cannabis

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cannabis, from Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis). See also cáñamo.

Noun

cannabis m (uncountable)

1. cannabis

See also

• hierba
• marihuana
• mota

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Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cannabis.

Noun

cannabis c

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

Declension

Declension of cannabis
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	cannabis	cannabisen	—	—
Genitive	cannabis	cannabisens	—	—