hashish

• hasheesh, haschisch (both rare or archaic)

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

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

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• Rhymes: -iːʃ

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.

• See also Thesaurus:marijuana

• hash

• Sha-shih, shishah

• hascisc, hascisc', ascisc, ascisc'

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈaʃ.ʃiʃ/^*, (traditional) /aʃˈʃiʃ/^*[1]
• Rhymes: -aʃʃiʃ, (traditional) -iʃ
• Hyphenation: hà‧shish, (traditional) ha‧shìsh

hashish m (invariable)

1. hashish

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