kanep

Borrowed from Latvian kaņepe. The plant name borrowed from Latvian is a Wanderwort known in many languages, for example Ancient Greek κάννᾰβῐς f (kánnabis), Russian конопля́ f (konopljá), Bulgarian коно́п m (konóp), German Hanf m, Swedish hampa c, Albanian kërp m, Georgian კანაფი (ḳanapi), Armenian կանեփ (kanepʻ), Turkish kenevir, kendir, Persian کنب (kanab), Arabic قِنَّب m (qinnab) and Akkadian 𒋆𒄣𒌦𒈾𒁍 (kunibu). From various sources the root has also been borrowed into many Finno-Ugric languages, for example Finnish hamppu, Erzya кансть (kansť), Moksha каньф (kańf), Eastern Mari кыне (kyńe) and Komi-Zyrian кӧнтусь (köntuś).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑnep/, [ˈkɑnepˑ]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑnep
• Hyphenation: ka‧nep

kanep (genitive kanepi, partitive kanepit)

1. cannabis, hemp (Cannabis)
   1. A tall annual herbaceous plant grown for fibre and oil, with long-rotate leafy pinnae. (Cannabis sativa)

      Eestis kasvatatakse kanepit vähe. ― Hemp cultivation is low in Estonia.

   2. Dried hemp stalks; the fibre obtained therefrom.
   3. A drug made from Cannabis indica, hashish.

      Mõnes riigis on kanep legaliseeritud. ― Some countries have legalized cannabis.

• kanepine

• kanep in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “kanep”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009