bhang

English

Etymology

Transliteration of Hindustani ⁧بھانگ⁩ / भाँग (bhāṅg).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /bæŋ/, /baŋ/
  • Rhymes: -æŋ
  • Homophone: bang

Noun

bhang (uncountable)

  1. (India, Kenya, Uganda, elsewhere slang) Cannabis and preparations thereof.
    • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 36:
      Almost from the outset of her arrival in the town, soft-muted music, the strange, heart-rending, mournful music of the East - suggestive of apes, and pearls, and bhang, and the colour blue - was to be heard, surging from the Nook in monotonous improvisation.
    • 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre 2008, page 101:
      He rolled out from under Zelikman, who looked surprised as if by the turn his bhang dream had taken.
    • 2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 13:
      Government-approved bhang shops thrive next to sweet shops flaunting rows of local desserts inside brightly lit, glass-panelled counters.

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Irish

Noun

bhang

  1. Lenited form of bang.

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
bhang bhhang mbhang
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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