kif
See also: KIF
English
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Kief_%28yellow%29.jpg/200px-Kief_%28yellow%29.jpg)
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Moroccan Arabic كيف (kīf), from Arabic كَيْف (kayf, “opiate”).
Pronunciation
Noun
kif (uncountable)
- A kind of cannabis smoked in Morocco and Algeria, for narcotic or intoxicating effect.
- 1809, James Grey Jackson, An Account of the Empire of Marocco, VIII:
- The kief, which is the flower and seeds of the plant, is the strongest, and a pipe of it half the size of a common English tobacco-pipe, is sufficient to intoxicate.
- 1882, C. Rollin-Tilton, translating Edmondo de Amicis, Morocco: Its People & Places:
- I perceived the odour of kif, and recognised the voices of Selam the Second, Abd-el-Rhaman, and others; it was an Arab orgie in full swing.
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 80:
- The trade goods – Persian rugs, salt, muskets, kif – trailed out behind them over the dunes, still lashed to the backs of rotting animals.
- 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate 2011, p. 52:
- ‘Some taxi driver, a Maghrebian…he suddenly swerved. They smoke kief, you know.’
- 1809, James Grey Jackson, An Account of the Empire of Marocco, VIII:
- The state of relaxed stupor induced by cannabis.
- The trichome of marijuana, a green powdery substance that falls from dry marijuana high in THC and other cannabinoid compounds.
Translations
Kind of cannabis
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Trichome of marijuana
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Azerbaijani
Etymology
Noun
kif (definite accusative kifni, plural kiflər)
Declension
Declension of kif
Possessive forms of kif
French
Etymology
From Moroccan Arabic كِيف (kīf), from Arabic كَيْف (kayf, “opiate”).
Pronunciation
Noun
kif m (uncountable)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “kif”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Maltese
Etymology
From Arabic كَيْفَ (kayfa). Compare Moroccan Arabic كيف (kīf).
Adverb
kif
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