Synonyms for bhang

Grammar : Noun

Spell : bang

Phonetic Transcription : bæŋ

Top 10 synonyms for bhang

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Définition of bhang

Origin : 1590s, from Hindi bhang "narcotic from hemp," from Sanskrit bhangah "hemp." Cognate with Russian penika, Polish pienka (from Russian) "hemp." The word first appears in Western Europe in Portuguese (1560s).

As in marijuana : noun grass, pot
As in cannabis : noun marijuana
As in hemp : noun plant

Example sentences :

Often enough they are almost overcome with the opium or bhang they have taken.
Extract from : « Jones of the 64th » by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton

In India it is chiefly for the resin, "haschisch, churrus, bhang."
Extract from : « The Romance of Plant Life » by G. F. Scott Elliot

Sometimes the leaves and stalks are dried in order to make the drug "bhang."
Extract from : « The Romance of Plant Life » by G. F. Scott Elliot

On one occasion490 they secretly filled his pipe with hashish (Bhang).
Extract from : « Bahaism and Its Claims » by Samuel Graham Wilson

Bhang consists of the larger leaves and capsules of the plant on which an efflorescence of resinous matter has occurred.
Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 6 » by Various

Then they took a bhang supply with them, and hashish, chat, and a few other sociable herbs.
Extract from : « Sjambak » by John Holbrook Vance

The patient is made to sit on an upturned new earthen pot, being previously well drugged with opium or bhang.
Extract from : « Castes and Tribes of Southern India » by Edgar Thurston

It was a short but sharp engagement, for numbers of the rebels were inflamed by the drug known as bhang, and fought like fiends.
Extract from : « John Nicholson » by R. E. Cholmeley

Bhang, the Hindustani siddhi or sabzi, consists of the dried leaves and small stalks of the hemp; a few fruits occur in it.
Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 » by Various

Wine is bad, bhang destroyeth one generation, but tobacco destroyeth all generations.
Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 » by Various

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