حشیش
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic حَشِيش (ḥašīš).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /ha.ˈʃiːʃ/
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [hä.ʃíːʃ]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [hæ.ʃíːʃ]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [hä.ʃíʃ]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | hašīš |
| Dari reading? | hašīš |
| Iranian reading? | hašiš |
| Tajik reading? | hašiš |
Noun
حشیش • (hašīš / hašiš) (Tajik spelling ҳашиш)
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian حَشِیش (hašīš), from Arabic حَشِيش (ḥašīš).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /ɦə.ʃiːʃ/
- Rhymes: -iːʃ
- Hyphenation: حَ‧شِیش
Noun
حَشِیش • (haśīś) m (Hindi spelling हशीश)
- hashish
- 1936, Muhammad Iqbal, Zarb-i-Kalim:
- وہ نُبُوَّت ہَے مُسَلْمان کے لِیے بَرْگِ حَشِیش
نُبُوَّت میں نَہِیں قُوت و شَوکَت کا پَیام- vo nubuvvat hai musalmān ke liye barg-i haśīś
nubuvvat mẽ nahī̃ qūt o śaukat kā payām
- 1985 translation by Annemarie Schimmel
- That kind of prophethood is hashish for the Muslim
In which there is not the message of power and energy!
- That kind of prophethood is hashish for the Muslim
- vo nubuvvat hai musalmān ke liye barg-i haśīś
- وہ نُبُوَّت ہَے مُسَلْمان کے لِیے بَرْگِ حَشِیش
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| direct | حَشِیش (haśīś) | حَشِیش (haśīś) |
| oblique | حَشِیش (haśīś) | حَشِیشوں (haśīśõ) |
| vocative | حَشِیش (haśīś) | حَشِیشو (haśīśo) |
Further reading
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “حشيش”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 274
- “حشیش”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
- “حشیش”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.