makhorka

English

Etymology

From Russian махо́рка (maxórka). The Russian term took its name from the Dutch city of Amersfoort, known for its tobacco industry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /məˈkɔː(ɹ)kə/, /məˈxɔː(ɹ)kə/

Noun

a pack of smoking makhorka

makhorka (usually uncountable, plural makhorkas)

1. (chiefly Russia) A coarse, strong type of tobacco (Nicotiana rustica), especially grown in Russia and Ukraine.
   • 1938, Seema Rynin Allan, Comrades and citizens‎^[1], page 113:

     Carefully refolding the paper, he put it away and rolled himself a cigarette of powerful makhorka in the strip of newspaper.

   • 1949, Naum Jasny, The Socialized Agriculture of the U. S. S. R.‎^[2], page 585:

     More than three-quarters of the Soviet tobacco output consists of makhorka (Nicotiana rustica), a low-grade variety used in other European countries only as an insecticide because of its high nicotine content.

   • 2003, David Victor Rosenstein, The Reason to Love This Country‎^[3], page 36:

     We were starving for tobacco—makhorka, actually, which, according to soldiers, helped survive cold, hunger and everyday toil. They gave us one pack of makhorka a month.

Synonyms

• (Nicotiana rustica): Aztec tobacco, mapacho, wild tobacco

Translations

Nicotiana rustica

• Armenian: մախորկա (hy) (maxorka)
• Azerbaijani: tənbəki
• Belarusian: махо́рка f (maxórka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 黃花煙草 / 黄花烟草 (huánghuā yāncǎo)

• Czech: tabák selský (cs) m
• Finnish: mahorkka (fi)
• French: makhorka f
• German: Bauern-Tabak m, Rundblatt-Tabak m, Machorka (de) f
• Ingrian: mahorkka
• Japanese: マホルカ (mahoruka), ルスティカタバコ (rusutika tabako)
• Korean: 마호르카 (mahoreuka)
• Polish: tytoń bakun m
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: махо́рка (ru) f (maxórka)
• Spanish: majorka f, mapacho m
• Swedish: bondtobak
• Ukrainian: махо́рка f (maxórka)
• Vietnamese: thuốc lào (vi)
• Yiddish: מאַכאָרקע f (makhorke)