Synonyms for bhang


Grammar : Noun
Spell : bang
Phonetic Transcription : bæŋ

Top 10 synonyms for bhang Other synonyms for the word bhang

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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