hemp

See also: HEMP and Hemp

English

Etymology

From Middle English hemp, from Old English henep, from Proto-West Germanic *hanapi, from Proto-Germanic *hanapiz. Doublet of cannabis and canvas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɛmp/

• Audio (US):

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• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛmp

Noun

hemp (countable and uncountable, plural hemps)

1. A tall annual herb, Cannabis sativa, native to Asia.
2. Various products of this plant, including fibres and the drug cannabis.
3. (slang, historical) The gallows.
   • 1864, James Russell Lowell, Fireside Travels:

     A hundred and fifty years ago, Cotton Mather bewails the carnal attractions of the tavern and the training field, and tells of an old Indian, who imperfectly understood the English tongue but desperately mastered enough of it to express a desire for instant hemp rather than listen to any more ghostly consolations.

Derived terms

• bastard hemp
• bowstring hemp
• Canadian hemp
• crack-hemp
• false hemp
• hemp bush
• hempen
• hemp heart
• hempish
• hemplike
• hemp milk
• hemp nettle
• hemp-nettle
• hemp palm
• hemp seed
• Hemp State
• hemp tree
• hemp-vine
• hemp-widow
• hempy
• Indian hemp
• Manila hemp
• Manilla hemp
• stretch hemp
• wag hemp

 

Translations

Cannabis sativa

• Abkhaz: аныцә (anəcʷ)
• Afrikaans: hennep (af)
• Akkadian: qunnabu
• Albanian: kërp (sq), kânp (Gheg)
• Arabic: قِنَّب (qinnab)
• Armenian: կանեփ (hy) (kanepʻ)
• Aromanian: cãnipã f, cãnavi
• Asturian: cáñamu m
• Azerbaijani: kənaf
• Bashkir: киндер (kinder), тарма (tarma)
• Belarusian: кано́плі pl (kanópli)
• Bulgarian: коно́п (bg) m (konóp)
• Burmese: ဘင်း (my) (bhang:)
• Buryat: улһан (ulhan) (Russian Buryat)
• Catalan: cànem (ca)
• Chechen: кӏомал (kʼomal)
• Chinese:

  Dungan: ма (ma)

  Mandarin: 大麻 (zh) (dàmá), 麻 (zh) (má)

• Chuvash: кантӑр (kant̬ăr)
• Coptic: ⲉⲣⲃⲓⲥⲓ m (erbisi)
• Czech: konopí (cs) n
• Danish: hamp c
• Dutch: hennep (nl) m
• Eastern Mari: кыне́ (kyńé)
• Esperanto: kanabo
• Estonian: kanep
• Faroese: hampur m
• Finnish: hamppu (fi)
• French: chanvre (fr) m
• Friulian: cjanaipe f, čhanaipe
• Gagauz: kenevir
• Galician: cánabo m
• Georgian: კანაფი (ka) (ḳanapi)
• German: Hanf (de) m

  Alemannic German: Hamf m

• Greek: κάνναβη (el) f (kánnavi)

  Ancient: κάνναβις f (kánnabis)

• Hebrew: קָנַבּוֹס (he) m (kanābos)
• Hindi: भाँग (hi) f (bhāṅg), भांग (hi) f (bhāṅg)
• Hungarian: kender (hu)
• Ido: kanabo (io)
• Ingrian: liina, kaneppi (dialectal)
• Irish: cnáib f
• Italian: canapa (it) f
• Japanese: 麻 (ja) (あさ, asa)
• Kalmyk: олсн (olsn)
• Karachay-Balkar: кендир (kendir)
• Karakalpak: kendir
• Kashubian: kònople f pl
• Kazakh: кендір (kendır), қарақурай (qaraqurai)
• Khakas: киндір (kindìr)
• Khmer: ឃ្លាយ (km) (khliəy)
• Komi-Permyak: пыш (pyš)
• Kongo: diamba
• Korean: 대마 (ko) (daema)
• Kumyk: кендир (kendir), кендираш (kendiraş)
• Kyrgyz: кара куурай (kara kuuray), кендир (kendir)
• Lao: ປໍ (pǭ), ປ່ານ (pān)
• Latin: cannabis f
• Latvian: kaņepe (lv) f
• Lingala: diámbá, bangi
• Macedonian: коноп m (konop)
• Malay: ganja (ms)​
• Manchu: ᠣᠯᠣ (olo)
• Manx: kennip
• Maori: taru rauhea
• Mari:

  Western Mari: кӹне (kÿńe)

• Middle English: hemp
• Mongolian: олс (mn) (ols)
• Nanai: онокто (onokto)
• Norman: cannevi m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hamp m

  Nynorsk: hamp m

• Occitan: cambe (oc), carbe
• Old English: henep m
• Ottoman Turkish: كنویر (kenevir), كندر (kendir), قنب (kınnap)
• Pashto: بنګ m (bang)
• Persian: کنف (fa) (kanaf), کنب (fa) (kanab), بنگ (fa) (bang)
• Polish: konopie (pl) pl
• Portuguese: cânhamo (pt), maconha (pt)
• Romanian: cânepă (ro) f
• Romansch: chonv, coniv, tgonev, tgoven, chanv
• Russian: конопля́ (ru) f (konopljá), пенька́ (ru) f (penʹká) (fibers)
• Sango: bangi (sg)
• Sardinian: càgnu, cànniu
• Scottish Gaelic: cainb f
• Serbo-Croatian: конопља f, konoplja (sh) f, грсница f, grsnica f
• Shor: кендир (kendir)
• Sicilian: cànnavu (scn) m, cànavu (scn), cànnamu (scn)
• Slovak: konopa f, konope f pl
• Slovene: konoplja f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: kónopje pl

  Upper Sorbian: konop f, konopej f, konopje f pl

• Southern Altai: кендир (kendir)
• Spanish: cáñamo (es) m, marihuana (es) f
• Svan: ქან (kan)
• Swahili: bangi (sw)
• Swedish: hampa (sv) c
• Tajik: канаб (kanab), банг (bang), бангдона (bangdona)
• Tamil: சணப்பு (ta) (caṇappu), சணம்பு (ta) (caṇampu), சணப்பை (ta) (caṇappai)
• Tatar: киндер (tt) (kinder)
• Thai: ป่าน (th) (bpàan)
• Tibetan: སོ་མ་ར་རྩྭ (so ma ra rtswa)
• Turkish: kenevir (tr), kendir (tr)
• Turkmen: kendir, kenep
• Tuvan: хендир (xendir)
• Udmurt: пыш (pyš)
• Ukrainian: коно́плі pl (konópli)
• Urdu: گانجا m (gānjā), بھنگ (bhaṅg), بھانگ (bhāṅg), شاہدانہ (śāh-dāna), حشیش (haśīś), بنگ (baṅg), قنب (qunnib)
• Uzbek: nasha (uz), kanop (uz)
• Venetan: caneva f, càneva (vec) f, cànef (vec) f
• Vietnamese: cây gai dầu, gai dầu, cần sa (vi), cây cần sa
• Volapük: jan (vo)
• Welsh: cywarch (cy) m
• Yakut: көлөппүнэ (kölöppüne)
• Zulu: insangu class 9

a coarse fibre

• Bulgarian: коноп (bg) m (konop), кълчища n pl (kǎlčišta)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: hampputuote
• Greek:

  Ancient: κάνναβις f (kánnabis)

• Ingrian: liina, kaneppi (dialectal)
• Malay: rami (ms)​
• Maori: kōaka, hema
• Middle English: hemp
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hamp m

  Nynorsk: hamp m

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: kùdjelja (sh), kùdelja (sh)

• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

See also

• cannabis
• marijuana
• ganja
• bhang
• THC

Anagrams

• meph

Afrikaans

FWOTD – 21 March 2022

Etymology

From Dutch hemd (“shirt”), from Middle Dutch hemde, hemede, from Old Dutch *hemithi, from Proto-Germanic *hamiþiją. Cognate with German Hemd, Yiddish העמד (hemd).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɦɛmp/

• Audio:

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Noun

hemp (plural hemde, diminutive hempie)

1. shirt
   • 2009, Christien Neser, Kondensmelk:

     Hy was haar hemp terwyl hy saggies fluit.

     He is washing her shirt while he's whistling softly.

Usage notes

• Note that the original -d- resurfaces in the plural hemde, but not in the diminutive.

Derived terms

• hempbaadjie
• hempbloes
• hempbroek
• hempkraag
• hemplinne
• hemprok
• hempsboordjie
• hempskakel
• hempsknoop
• hempslip
• hempsmou
• T-hemp

 

Descendants

• → Fanagalo: hemp
• → Northern Sotho: hempe
• → Phuthi: ihhempe
• → Shona: hembe
• → Sotho: hempe
• → Southern Ndebele: irhembe
• → Tswana: hêmpê
• → Venda: hemmbe
• → Xhosa: ihempe
• → Zulu: ihembe

Middle English

Alternative forms

• hanep, hempe, henep, henepe, henoppe, henpe, henppe

Etymology

From Old English henep, hænep (“hemp”), from Proto-West Germanic *hanapi, from Proto-Germanic *hanapiz; cognate to Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛmp/, /ˈhɛn(ə)p/

Noun

hemp (uncountable)

1. Hemp (Cannabis sativa).
2. Hempen fibre or products made of it.

Derived terms

• hempen

Descendants

• English: hemp
• Scots: hemp, hempt

References

• “hemp, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-1-7.