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A preparation of the leaves and flowers of the hemp plant
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Bhang ( Hindi : भांग) is an edible preparation of cannabis used in food and drink in India . Using mortar and pestle , the buds and leaves of cannabis are ground into a paste. To this mixture, milk (or buttermilk), ghee , hard liquor (sometimes) and Indian ...
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n. cannabis, especially as used in the Indian subcontinent.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from Hindi bhang "narcotic from hemp," from Sanskrit bhangah "hemp." Perhaps cognate with Russian penika "hemp." The word first appears in Western Europe in Portuguese (1560s).
Usage examples of bhang.
As she looked him over, she rubbed at her eyes, which were bloodshot from smoking the potent bhang they grow on Summerworld.
Danlo was so close to her that he smelled sihu oil and the sweet smokiness of bhang clinging to her silk kimono.
They were particularly generous with bhang, a beverage made from the juice of the tender tops of Indian hemp mixed with an infusion of nutmeg and cloves.
As Bhang Pao spoke he made hand-washing gestures, each hand curling in and out of the other.
The voice was husky and low-pitched, even and monotonous, the voice of a deaf woman or one drugged by the smoke of the bhang pipe.
If I am in the habit of drinking Bhang, and a seller thereof sells it to me, am I to blame him or myself?
Defoe was welcomed aboard by the Port Master, a local worthy who doubled as Mayor of Shacktown, charged with neglecting sanitation and handing out beer and bhang on election day.
But their opiates affect a race addicted to physical repose, to sensuous enjoyment rather than to sensual excitement, and to lucid intellectual contemplation, with a sense of serene delight as supremely delicious to their temperament as the dreamy illusions of haschisch to the Turk, the fierce frenzy of bhang to the Malay, or the wild excitement of brandy or Geneva to the races of Northern Europe.
I practised my profession in the capital city of a state ruled over by a maharajah, who, although he had been a brave and honourable man in his prime, had degenerated into a mere voluptuary, spending his days in the companionship of nautch girls and disreputable men, indulging constantly in immoderate potations of strong wine, and given at times to the use of bhang, which does more than anything else to dull the faculties and deaden the conscience of the unfortunate who surrenders himself to its seductive spells.
As Bhang Pao spoke he made hand-washing gestures, each hand curling in and out of the other.
The voice was husky and low-pitched, even and monotonous, the voice of a deaf woman or one drugged by the smoke of the bhang pipe.
One of the earliest was cannabis sativa, known variously as hemp, kif, bhang, hashish, ganja, charas and marihuana in its various forms.
Metro Boston subdialectical argot origin unknown for cannabis, pot, grass, du- Bois, dope, ganja, bhang, herb, hash, m.
It is the drug derived from the Indian hemp, scientifically named Cannabis Indica, better known as hashish, or bhang, or a dozen other names in the East.