hashish

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /həˈʃiːʃ/, /hæˈʃiːʃ/, /ˈhæʃɪʃ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -iːʃ

Noun[edit]

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[1]:
      You know hasheesh is the extract of hemp?
  2. A cannabis extract.
  3. (slang) Marijuana generally.

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Italian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

hashish m (invariable)

  1. hashish

References[edit]

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

Further reading[edit]

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