English
Etymology
From Middle English, equivalent to hemp + seed.
Noun
hempseed (countable and uncountable, plural hempseeds)
- The seed of the hemp plant, used as high-protein food or fishing bait.
- A gallows bird; a person hanged.
- Synonym: hempstretch
c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:Thou wot, wot thou? Thou wot, wot ta? Do, do, thou rogue. Do, thou hempseed.
Translations
seed of the hemp plant
- Arabic: بُذُور الْقِنَّب pl (buḏūr al-qinnab), شَاهْدَانَج m (šāhdānaj), تَنُّوم m (tannūm)
- Aramaic:
- Classical Syriac: ܫܲܗܕܵܢܵܓ m (šahdānāḡ)
- Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: שָׁהְדָּנַג m (šāhdānaḡ)
- Armenian:
- Old Armenian: շահդանակ (šahdanak)
- Catalan: llavor de cànem m, (please verify) canyamon m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 大麻籽 (dàmá zǐ)
- Dutch: hennepzaad (nl) n
- Finnish: hampunsiemen
- French: chènevis (fr) m
- German: Hanfsamen m
- Greek: κανναβούρι (el) n (kannavoúri), κανναβόσπορος (el) m (kannavósporos)
- Hindi: please add this translation if you can
- Hungarian: kendermag (hu)
- Italian: canapuccia f
- Japanese: 麻の実 (asa no mi), 麻子 (ja) (mashi), ヘンプシード (henpushīdo)
- Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
- Middle Persian: šhdʾnk' (/šahdānag/)
- Persian: شاهدانه (fa) (šâhdâne)
- Polish: siemię konopne n
- Portuguese: semente de cânhamo f
- Russian: конопля́ные семена́ m (konopljányje semená)
- Spanish: cañamón (es) m
- Swedish: hampfrö n, hampafrö n
- Telugu: please add this translation if you can
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