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See also: Kif and KIF

Translingual

Symbol

kif

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

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English

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

Noun

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.
Translations

Etymology 2

Adjective

kif (comparative more kif, superlative most kif)

  1. Alternative form of kiff.
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Azerbaijani

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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

Noun

kif (definite accusative kifi, plural kiflər)

  1. mold (woolly or furry growth of tiny fungi)
    kif bağlamaqto mold, to become moldy
  2. (archaic) syphilis
    Synonym: sifilis

Etymology 2

From Persian کیف (kif).

Noun

kif (definite accusative kifi, plural kiflər)

  1. (South Azerbaijani) handbag
    Synonyms: çanta, sumka

Declension

More information singular, plural ...
More information nominative, singular ...
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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Algerian Arabic كيف (kīf) or Moroccan Arabic كيف (kīf), from Arabic كَيْف (kayf, opiate).

Pronunciation

Noun

kif m (uncountable)

  1. kif

Derived terms

Further reading

Maltese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kiːf/
  • Rhymes: -iːf

Etymology 1

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

Adverb

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.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  3. as

Etymology 2

From Arabic كَيْف (kayf).

Noun

kif m

  1. manner, how
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