hashish

hashish

English

Alternative forms

• hasheesh

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /həˈʃiːʃ/, /hæˈʃiːʃ/, /ˈhæʃɪʃ/

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• Rhymes: -iːʃ

Noun

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 1964, p. 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:

     You know hasheesh is the extract of hemp?

2. A cannabis extract.
3. (slang) Marijuana generally.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:marijuana

Related terms

• hash

Translations

dried leaves of the Indian hemp plant

Albanian: hashish m Amharic: ሃሺሽ (hašiš) Arabic: حَشِيش‎ (ar) m (ḥašīš) Egyptian Arabic: حشيش‎ m (ḥašīš) Armenian: հաշիշ (hy) (hašiš) Azerbaijani: həşiş Belarusian: гашы́ш m (hašýš) Bengali: ভাং (bhaṅ), গাঁজা (bn) (gãja) Bulgarian: хаши́ш m (hašíš) Burmese: ဘင်း (my) (bhang:), ဆေးခြောက် (my) (hce:hkrauk), ဂန်ဂျာ (my) (gan-gya) Catalan: haixix (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 大麻 (zh) (dàmá), 哈希什 (hāxīshí), 印度大麻 (Yìndù dàmá) Czech: hašiš (cs) m Danish: hashish, hash Dutch: hasj (nl), hasjiesj (nl) Esperanto: haŝiŝo Estonian: hašiš Faroese: hassj n Finnish: marihuana (fi), hasis (fi) French: haschich (fr) m, haschisch (fr) m, hachisch (fr) m, hachich (fr) m Galician: haxix m Georgian: ჰაშიში (ka) (hašiši) German: Haschisch (de) n, Hasch (de) n Greek: χασίσι (el) (chasísi) Gujarati: ગાંજો (gā̃jo) Hebrew: חֲשִׁישׁ‎ (he) (khashísh) Hindi: गांजा m (gāñjā), हशीश f (haśīś), भाँग (hi) m (bhāṅg) Hungarian: hasis (hu) Ido: hashisho (io) Indonesian: hasyis (id) Irish: haisis f Japanese: ハシシ (hashishi), 大麻 (ja) (たいま, taima) Kannada: ಗಾಂಜಾ (kn) (gāñjā) Kashubian: haszisz m Kazakh: наша (naşa), гашиш (gaşiş) Khmer: កញ្ឆា (km) (kɑñchaa) Korean: 해시시 (haesisi), 대마 (ko) (daema) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: بەنگ‎ (ku) (beng) Kyrgyz: гашиш (gaşiş), наша (naşa) Lao: ກັນຊາ (lo) (kan sā), ກັນຊາ (lo) (kan sā) Latvian: hašišs m Lithuanian: hašišas m Macedonian: хашиш m (hašiš) Malay: hasyisy, ganja Norwegian: hasj (no) Pashto: چرس‎ (ps) m pl (čars) Persian: حشیش‎ (fa) (hašiš), بنگ‎ (fa) (bang) Polish: haszysz (pl) m Portuguese: haxixe (pt) m Punjabi: ਗਾਂਜਾ (pa) (gāñjā) Romanian: hașiș (ro) n Russian: гаши́ш (ru) m (gašíš), анаша́ (ru) f (anašá) Sanskrit: गञ्जा (sa) f (gañjā) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: хашиш m Roman: hašiš (sh) m Slovak: hašiš (sk) m Slovene: hašiš (sl) m Spanish: hachís (es) m Swahili: hashishi Swedish: haschisch (sv), hasch (sv) Tajik: ҳашиш (hašiš), банг (bang), нашъа (našʾa) Tamil: கஞ்சா (ta) (kañcā) Thai: กัญชา (th) (gan-chaa) Turkish: haşhaş (tr), esrar (tr) Ukrainian: гаши́ш m (hašýš) Urdu: گانجا‎ m (gānjā), حشیش‎ f (haśīś) Uyghur: نەشە‎ (neshe) Uzbek: nasha (uz) Vietnamese: hasit, cần sa (vi)

cannabis extract

Finnish: hasis (fi) Turkish: kubar

marijuana generally — see cannabis

Anagrams

• Sha-shih, shishah

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Italian

Alternative forms

• hascisc, hascisc', ascisc, ascisc'

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

hashish m (invariable)

1. hashish

References

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

Further reading

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