kif

kif

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Eastern Parbate Kham.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Eastern Parbate Kham terms

• kaif, keef, kef, kief

From Moroccan Arabic كيف (kīf, “opiate”), from Arabic كَيْف (kayf, “joy”).

• IPA^(key): /kiːf/, /kɪf/

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• Rhymes: -iːf, -ɪf

kif (uncountable)

1. A kind of cannabis smoked in Morocco and Algeria, for narcotic or intoxicating effect.
   • 1809, James Grey Jackson, chapter VIII, in An Account of the Empire of Marocco:

     The kief, which is the flower and seeds of the plant, is the strongest, and a pipe of it half the size of a common English tobacco-pipe, is sufficient to intoxicate.

   • 1882, Edmondo de Amicis, translated by C. Rollin-Tilton, Morocco: Its People & Places:

     I perceived the odour of kif, and recognised the voices of Selam the Second, Abd-el-Rhaman, and others; it was an Arab orgie in full swing.

   • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 80:

     The trade goods – Persian rugs, salt, muskets, kif – trailed out behind them over the dunes, still lashed to the backs of rotting animals.

   • 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 54:

     […] then hung around the special Silver-Key-Members’ Lounge with the other ladies […] smoking kif and making extremely delicate and oblique fun of their husbands’ sexual idiosyncrasies, […]

   • 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 52:

     ‘Some taxi driver, a Maghrebian…he suddenly swerved. They smoke kief, you know.’

   • 2012, Susan Sontag, “9/5/65 Tangier, Tetouan”, in David Rieff, editor, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh, Farrar, Straus and Giroux:

     Kif melts the brain; dexemyl sharpens the edges. (Kif makes you drift—makes you forget what someone said a minute before–hard to follow a long story or joke, […] )

2. The state of relaxed stupor induced by cannabis.
3. The trichome of marijuana, a green powdery substance that falls from dry marijuana, high in THC and other cannabinoid compounds.

kif (comparative more kif, superlative most kif)

1. Alternative form of kiff.

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kebü (“rot, dandruff”); cognate with Crimean Tatar küf, Karakhanid [script needed] (küviǯ), Kipchak [script needed] (küf) and Turkish küf.

kif (definite accusative kifi, plural kiflər)

1. mold (woolly or furry growth of tiny fungi)

   kif bağlamaq ― to mold, to become moldy

2. (archaic) syphilis

   Synonym: sifilis

From Persian کیف (kif).

kif (definite accusative kifi, plural kiflər)

1. (South Azerbaijani) handbag

   Synonyms: çanta, sumka

Borrowed from Moroccan Arabic كيف (kīf), from Arabic كَيْف (kayf, “opiate”).

• IPA^(key): /kif/

kif m (uncountable)

1. kif

• kiffer

• “kif”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /kiːf/

From Arabic كَيْفَ (kayfa). Compare Moroccan Arabic كيف (kīf).

kif

1. (interrogative) how
2. as soon as
   • 1966, Anton Buttigieg, “Agnes”, in Ejjew Nidħku Ftit Ieħor:

     Miexja fil-funeral ta’ kuġintha
     mart it-tabib, li mietet fl-aħjar tagħha;
     u f’moħħha ħsieb għaddej li t-tabib jista’
     kif jgħaddi ftit taż-żmien, jitgħarras magħha.

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3. as

From Arabic كَيْف (kayf).

kif m

1. manner, how