hashish
noun/həˈʃiːʃ/ · /hæˈʃiːʃ/
Etymology Borrowed from Arabic حَشِيش (ḥašīš, “hay, dried herb”).
1
Usually The leaves and tender parts of the Indian hemp plant (which are intoxicating), which are dried for either chewing or smoking.
- 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.1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah, Dover, published 1964, page 44:
- You know hasheesh is the extract of hemp?1875, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, chapter 4, in Eight Cousins:
2
Usually A cannabis extract.
3
Slang, Usually Marijuana generally.