kif

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See also: KIF

English

Kif in a jar.

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Moroccan Arabic كيف (kīf), from Arabic كَيْف (kayf, opiate).

Pronunciation

Noun

kif (uncountable)

  1. 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.’
  2. The state of relaxed stupor induced by cannabis.
  3. The trichome of marijuana, a green powdery substance that falls from dry marijuana high in THC and other cannabinoid compounds.

Translations


Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Persian کیف (kif).

Noun

kif (definite accusative kifni, plural kiflər)

  1. (South Azerbaijani) handbag
    Synonyms: çanta, sumka

Declension


French

Etymology

From Moroccan Arabic كِيف (kīf), from Arabic كَيْف (kayf, opiate).

Pronunciation

Noun

kif m (uncountable)

  1. kif

Derived terms

Further reading


Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic كَيْفَ (kayfa). Compare Moroccan Arabic كيف (kīf).

Adverb

kif

  1. how