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حَشِيش
hashish (cannabis resin, smoked as a drug) /ħaˈʃiːʃ/
nounB1#2814 most common
Also: marijuana, weed (colloquial), dried grass, hay (classical/literal sense), herbage, weeds
Example sentences
هو يدخّن حشيشًا.
He smokes hashish.
لا تدخّن الحشيش، فهو ممنوع.
Don't smoke hashish, it's forbidden.
جفّ الحشيش في الحقل بعد الصيف.
The grass dried up in the field after summer.
تعاطي الحشيش يضرّ بالجهاز العصبي.
Using hashish harms the nervous system.
يُجرّم القانون زراعة الحشيش وبيعه وتهريبه عبر الحدود.
The law criminalizes growing, selling, and smuggling hashish across borders.
على الرغم من الحملات المتكررة لمكافحة تهريب الحشيش، ما زالت شبكات التوزيع تتكيف بسرعة مع الإجراءات الأمنية الجديدة.
Despite repeated campaigns to combat hashish smuggling, distribution networks still adapt quickly to new security measures.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | حَشِيشٌ | حَشَائِشُ |
| Genitive | حَشِيشٍ | حَشَائِشَ |
| Accusative | حَشِيشًا | حَشَائِشَ |
| Vocative | يا حَشِيشُ | يا حَشَائِشُ |
Word family
حشّ (ḥashsha)to mow, cut grass
حشّاش (ḥashshāsh)hashish smoker or addict
حشيشة (ḥashīsha)a single blade of grass, an herb
حشائش (ḥashā'ish)grasses, weeds, herbs
محشّة (miḥashsha)scythe, sickle
Etymology
حشيش comes from the Arabic root ح-ش-ش, tied to the verb حشّ, meaning to mow or cut grass. It originally meant dried grass, hay, or herbage cut for fodder. In everyday speech across the Arab world, the word narrowed to mean hashish, the pressed cannabis resin, likely because the dried plant material was treated like any other cut herb. Medieval accounts also link the word to the English term assassin, via the Hashashin, though most historians treat that story as legend rather than settled fact.
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