cannabis

See also: Cannabis and cánnabis

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cannabis (“hemp”), from Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis). See there for more. Doublet of canvas and hemp.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkænəbɪs/

• Audio (US):

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• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: can‧na‧bis

Noun

cannabis (countable and uncountable, plural cannabises)

Cannabis sativa

1. A tall annual dioecious plant (Cannabis, especially Cannabis sativa), native to central Asia and having alternate, palmately divided leaves and tough bast fibers.

   Synonyms: hemp, marijuana

   Hyponyms: Cannabis sativa, Cannabis indica, Cannabis ruderalis

2. A mildly euphoriant or sedating, intoxicating hallucinogenic drug prepared from various parts of this plant.

   Synonyms: 420, bhang, bud, dope, draw, ganja, grass, herb, leaf, marijuana, pot, puff, string, reefer, skunk, THC, weed

   • 2024, NTSB, Intersection Crash Between Passenger Car and Combination Vehicle, Tishomingo, Oklahoma, March 22, 2022:

     We determined that the car driver’s transportation of multiple teen passengers, limited driving experience, and likely impairment from effects of cannabis at the time of the crash adversely affected her judgment of the danger of entering the intersection in front of the approaching combination vehicle.

   • 2024, NTSB, Intersection Crash Between Passenger Car and Combination Vehicle, Tishomingo, Oklahoma, March 22, 2022:

     We found that teen drivers and the public largely misunderstand the legal status of cannabis use and do not fully recognize the risks of cannabis-impaired driving.

3. The purified and decarboxylated resin of the cannabis plant used for medicinal purposes rather than for any intoxicating effects.

Derived terms

• cannabene
• cannabev
• cannabidiol
• cannabin
• cannabinoid
• cannabinol
• cannabislike
• cannabism
• cannabisseur
• cannabusiness
• cannabutter
• cannaphobia
• cannista
• cantheism
• medical cannabis

 

Descendants

• → Irish: cannabas
• → Welsh: canabis

Translations

plant

• Afrikaans: dagga (af), kannabis
• Albanian: kërp (sq), kânp
• Arabic: قِنَّب هِنْدِيّ m (qinnab hindiyy), قِنَّب m (qinnab)
• Armenian: կանեփ (hy) (kanepʻ)
• Asturian: cáñamu m
• Azerbaijani: kənaf, çətənə
• Bashkir: киндер (kinder), тарма (tarma)
• Belarusian: канапля́ f (kanapljá), кано́плі f pl (kanópli)
• Bengali: গাঁজা (bn) (gãja)
• Breton: kouarc'h (br) m
• Bulgarian: канабис m (kanabis)
• Burmese: ဆေးခြောက် (my) (hce:hkrauk)
• Catalan: cànem (ca) m, cànnabis (ca) m
• Chechen: кӏомал (kʼomal)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 大麻 (daai⁶ maa⁴)

  Hokkien: toā-moâ

  Mandarin: 大麻 (zh) (dàmá)

• Coptic: ⲉⲣⲃⲓⲥⲓ m (erbisi)
• Czech: konopí (cs) n
• Danish: hamp ?, cannabis ?, hash ?, pot (da) ?
• Dargwa: къама (ɢama)
• Dutch: hennep (nl) m, cannabis (nl) m
• Erzya: мушко (muško)
• Esperanto: kanabo
• Estonian: kanep
• Faroese: hampur m
• Finnish: hamppu (fi), kannabis (fi)
• French: cannabis (fr) m
• Galician: cánabo m
• Georgian: კანაფი (ka) (ḳanapi)
• German: Cannabis (de) m, Hanf (de) m
• Greek: καννάβεις (el) pl (kannáveis)
• Hebrew: קנאביס (he) m (kan'avis)
• Hindi: कैनबिस ? (kainbis), भांग (hi) f (bhāṅg)
• Hungarian: kannabisz (hu), kender (hu)
• Ido: kanabo (io)
• Indonesian: ganja (id)
• Irish: cannabas m
• Italian: canapa (it) f
• Japanese: 大麻 (ja) (たいま, taima), インド大麻 (Indo-taima)
• Kalmyk: олсн (olsn)
• Kazakh: кенепшөп (kenepşöp)
• Khmer: កញ្ឆា (km) (kɑñchʰaa)
• Komi-Zyrian: пыш (pyš)
• Korean: 대마(大麻) (ko) (daema), 인도 대마 (indo daema)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: kinif (ku), kindir (ku)

• Kyrgyz: кара куурай (kara kuuray)
• Lak: ницӏайхъува (nicʼayquwa)
• Lithuanian: kanapė f
• Macedonian: коноп m (konop), канабис m (kanabis)
• Malagasy: rongony (mg)
• Malay: kanabis, ganja (ms)
• Maori: taru rauhea, tarukino
• Mingrelian: კიფი (ḳipi)
• Mongolian: олс (mn) (ols)
• Navajo: naakai binátʼoh
• Newar: क्यानाबिस (kyānābisa)
• Norman: cannabis m (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hamp m

  Nynorsk: hamp m

• Old English: henep
• Ottoman Turkish: كنویر (kenevir), كندر (kendir), قنب (kınnap)
• Persian: شاه‌دانه (šâh-dâne)
• Polish: konopie (pl) pl, konopie siewne pl
• Portuguese: cânabis (pt) f, pé-de-maconha m
• Romanian: cânepă (ro) f
• Russian: конопля́ (ru) f (konopljá)
• Scottish Gaelic: cainb f, còrcach f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ко̀нопља f, ка̀набис m, поскон f

  Roman: kònoplja (sh) f, kànabis (sh) m, poskon f

• Sicilian: cànnavu (scn) m, cànnava (scn) f, cannabis f
• Spanish: cannabis (es) m, cáñamo (es) m
• Swahili: mbangi
• Swedish: cannabis (sv) c
• Tamil: சணப்பு (ta) (caṇappu), சணப்பை (ta) (caṇappai)
• Tatar: киндер (tt) (kinder)
• Thai: กัญชา (th) (gan-chaa)
• Tiwi: kanja, wupunga
• Turkish: kenevir (tr)
• Ukrainian: конопля́ f (konopljá)
• Urdu: گانجا m (gānjā), بھنگ (bhaṅg), بھانگ (bhāṅg), شاہدانہ (śāh-dāna), حشیش (haśīś), بنگ (baṅg), قنب (qunnib)
• Vietnamese: cần sa (vi)
• Welsh: cywarch (cy) m
• Yiddish: ^{(please verify)} האַנףֿ m (hanf), ^{(please verify)} קאָנאָפּליע m (konoplye)
• Zulu: insangu class 9
• ǃXóõ: gǂkxʻàna (dialectal)

marijuana — see marijuana

See also

• Appendix:Cannabis slang

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cannabis, from Ancient Greek κάννᾰβῐς (kánnabis).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑ.naːˌbɪs/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: can‧na‧bis

Noun

cannabis m (uncountable)

1. cannabis, plant of the genus Cannabis, especially Cannabis sativa or Cannabis indica

   Synonyms: cannabisplant, hennep, hennepplant, wietplant

2. cannabis, a drug made from parts of this plant

   Synonyms: hennep, wiet

Derived terms

• cannabisdetaillist
• cannabisgebruiker
• cannabisolie
• cannabisplant
• cannabisproduct
• cannabist

 

Related terms

• canvas
• hennep

 

Descendants

• → Indonesian: kanabis

References

• “cannabis” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cannabis, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis). Doublet of chanvre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.na.bis/

• Audio:

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Noun

cannabis m (uncountable)

1. cannabis

Further reading

• “cannabis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis). See there for more.

Alternative forms

• cannaba, cannabum, cannabus, canapa, canapis, canapus, canava, canva (Late Latin, Vulgar Latin)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkan.na.bis/, [ˈkänːäbɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkan.na.bis/, [ˈkänːäbis]

Noun

cannabis f (genitive cannabis); third declension

1. hemp

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -im, ablative singular in -e or -ī).

	singular	plural
nominative	cannabis	cannabēs
genitive	cannabis	cannabium
dative	cannabī	cannabibus
accusative	cannabim	cannabēs cannabīs
ablative	cannabe cannabī	cannabibus
vocative	cannabis	cannabēs

Derived terms

• cannabius

Descendants

• ⇒ Late Latin: cannabum, cannabus
  • Asturian: cáñamu
  • Catalan: cànem
  • Galician: cánabo (“hemp, hemp fiber”)
  • Occitan: cambe, carbe
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: cánamo, cánabo
  • Spanish: cáñamo
    • → Portuguese: cânhamo
  • Sardinian: cànnabu, càgnu
  • Sicilian: cànnavu, cànnamu

• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: canapa
  • → Albanian: kërp
  • Aromanian: cãnipã
  • Friulian: cjanaipe, čhanaipe
  • Italian: canapa
  • Megleno-Romanian: cǫnipă
  • Romanian: cânepă, cânipă

• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *canapis, *canapus
  • ⇒ Dalmatian: canapial (“cord”)

• ⇒ Late Latin: canava
  • French: chanvre
  • Norman: cannevi
  • Portuguese: cânave
  • Romansch: chanv, chonv, coniv, tgonev
  • Sicilian: cànnava
  • Venetan: caneva

• → Catalan: cànnabis
• → Dutch: cannabis
• → English: cannabis
  • → Irish: cannabas
• → French: cannabis
• → German: Cannabis
• → Galician: cánnabis
• → Greek: κάνναβη (kánnavi) (or directly from Ancient Greek)
• → Irish: cnáib
• → Italian: cannabis
• → Norman: cannabis
• → Occitan: canabís,
• → Portuguese: canábis, cânabis
• → Romanian: canabis
• → Spanish: cannabis
• → Swedish: cannabis

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkan.na.biːs/, [ˈkänːäbiːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkan.na.bis/, [ˈkänːäbis]

Noun

cannabīs

1. dative/ablative plural of cannabum

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkan.na.biːs/, [ˈkänːäbiːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkan.na.bis/, [ˈkänːäbis]

Noun

cannabīs

1. dative/ablative plural of cannaba

References

• “cannabis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cannabis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cannabis, from Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis).

Noun

cannabis m (uncountable)

1. (Jersey) cannabis

Spanish

Alternative forms

• cánnabis

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cannabis, from Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis). See also cáñamo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kanˈnabis/ [kãnˈna.β̞is], /kaˈnabis/ [kaˈna.β̞is]
• Rhymes: -abis
• Syllabification: can‧na‧bis

Noun

cannabis m (uncountable)

1. cannabis

See also

• hierba
• marihuana
• mota

 

Further reading

• “cannabis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cannabis.

Noun

cannabis c

1. cannabis; Cannabis sativa
2. cannabis; a recreational drug

Declension

Declension of cannabis

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	cannabis	cannabis
	definite	cannabisen	cannabisens
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

See also

• hasch
• marijuana

References

• cannabis in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• cannabis in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)