hashish

English

Alternative forms

• hasheesh, haschisch (both rare or archaic)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (General Australian):

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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, published 1964, page 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^[1]:

     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 (bn) (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)
• Icelandic: hass (is) n
• 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 (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 (ms)
• 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

Italian

Alternative forms

• hascisc, hascisc', ascisc, ascisc'

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

hashish m (invariable)

1. hashish

Further reading

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