From Middle English henbane, hennebane ( > French hanebane), equivalent to hen + bane. Cognate with Danish hønsebane, Swedish hönsbane. Compare also Old English hennebelle (“henbane”, literally “hen-bell”).
henbane (countable and uncountable, plural henbanes)
- A poisonous plant, Hyoscyamus niger, used sometimes as a drug that causes at least hallucinations, dilated pupils, restlessness, and flushed skin.
- Synonyms: black henbane, hog's bane, stinking nightshade
1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 157:Deadly nightshade, henbane, hellebore and mandrakes were of evil reputation[.]
- Any other plant of the genus Hyoscyamus.
Hyoscyamus niger
- Arabic: بَنْج m (banj)
- Armenian: բանգի (hy) (bangi)
- Asturian: beleñu m
- Azerbaijani: batbat, bəngotu
- Belarusian: блёкат m (bljókat)
- Bezhta: модадо (modado)
- Bulgarian: буника f (bunika), блен m (blen), попадийка f (popadijka)
- Catalan: jusquiam m
- Chechen: бугӏа-яр (buğa-jar)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 天仙子 (tiānxiānzǐ), 莨菪 (zh) (làngdàng)
- Czech: blín (cs) m
- Danish: bulmeurt c
- Dutch: bilzekruid (nl) n
- Esperanto: hiskiamo
- Finnish: hullukaali (fi)
- French: jusquiame (fr) f
- Galician: meimendro (gl) m, moimendro m, arangaños m, herba dos ouvidos f, herba do gorgullo (gl) f
- Georgian: ლენცოფა (lencopa)
- German: Bilsenkraut (de) n
- Greek: δαιμοναριά (el) f (daimonariá)
- Ancient: ὑοσκύαμος m (huoskúamos)
- Hungarian: beléndek (hu), bolondító beléndek (hu)
- Ido: hiskiamo (io)
- Ingrian: matoheinä
- Irish: caoch na gcearc f, gafann f
- Middle Irish: gafann f
- Italian: giusquiamo m, dente di cavallo
- Japanese: ヒヨス (ja) (hiyosu), 菲沃斯 (hiyosu)
- Kazakh: меңдуана (meñduana)
- Korean: 사리풀 (saripul)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: beng (ku) m
- Kyrgyz: меңдубана (meŋdubana)
- Latin: baccīna f, alterculum n, hyoscyamus m
- Latvian: driģene f
- Lithuanian: drignė f
- Macedonian: буника f (bunika)
- Manx: connagh ny giark f
- Nogai: менъдувана (meñduvana)
- Norman: hannebanne f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: bulmeurt m or f
- Nynorsk: bulmeurt f
- Occitan: jusquiam m
- Ossetian: къусбын (k’usbyn)
- Persian: بنگ (fa) (bang), منگ (fa) (mang)
- Polish: lulek czarny (pl) m
- Portuguese: meimendro (pt) m
- Romanian: măselariță (ro) f
- Russian: белена́ (ru) f (belená)
- Scottish Gaelic: gafann m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: бу̀ника f
- Roman: bùnika (sh) f
- Slovak: blen m
- Slovene: zobnik m
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: bělmanowe n
- Upper Sorbian: woblěd
- Spanish: beleño (es) m
- Old Spanish: bellinno m
- Swedish: bolmört (sv) c
- Turkish: kara banotu
- Udmurt: пиньтурын (pińturyn)
- Ukrainian: блекота́ (uk) f (blekotá)
- Uzbek:
- Cyrillic: мингдевона (mingdevona)
- Roman: mingdevona (uz)
- Welsh: llewyg yr iâr m
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any plant of the genus Hyoscyamus