ayahuasca

ayahuasca

See also: Ayahuasca

English

Etymology

From Spanish ayahuasca, from Quechua ayawaska, from aya (“spirit, ancestor”) + waska (“vine”).

Noun

ayahuasca (usually uncountable, plural ayahuascas)

1. A giant vine native to South America (especially Banisteriopsis caapi), noted for its psychotropic properties.
   • 2005, the Amazon forest people would take ayahuasca and enter into that place of Group Mind where they would make decisions for the tribe — Martin Torgoff, Can’t Find My Way Home (Simon & Schuster 2005, p. 414)
2. Any of various psychoactive infusions or decoctions prepared from this vine.

   Synonyms: Iowaska, yage, yaje

Translations

Banisteriopsis caapi, a vine of South America

German: Ayahuasca n Portuguese: ayahuasca f, iagê m

psychoactive infusions made from the ayahuasca vine

German: Ayahuasca n Portuguese: ayahuasca f, daime (pt) m

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French

Noun

ayahuasca m (uncountable)

1. ayahuasca

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Portuguese

Noun

ayahuasca f (plural ayahuascas)

1. ayahuasca (Banisteriopsis caapi, a vine of South America)

   Synonym: iagê

2. ayahuasca (psychoactive infusion made from the ayahuasca vine)

   Synonym: daime

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Spanish

Etymology

From Quechua ayawaska.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /aʝaˈwaska/ [a.ʝaˈwas.ka]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /aʝaˈwaska/ [a.ʝaˈwas.ka]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /aʃaˈwaska/ [a.ʃaˈwas.ka]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /aʒaˈwaska/ [a.ʒaˈwas.ka]

• Rhymes: -aska
• Syllabification: a‧ya‧huas‧ca

Noun

ayahuasca f (plural ayahuascas)

1. ayahuasca
2. a psychotropic concoction prepared from said vine

Derived terms

• ayahuasquero

Descendants

• → English: ayahuasca

Further reading

• “ayahuasca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014