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kif
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology 1
From Moroccan Arabic كيف (kīf, “opiate”), from Arabic كَيْف (kayf, “joy”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kiːf/, /kɪf/
Audio (Southern England): (file) Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -iːf, -ɪf
Noun
kif (uncountable)
- 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, […] )
- The state of relaxed stupor induced by cannabis.
- The trichome of marijuana, a green powdery substance that falls from dry marijuana, high in THC and other cannabinoid compounds.
Translations
Trichome of marijuana
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Etymology 2
Adjective
kif (comparative more kif, superlative most kif)
- Alternative form of kiff.
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Azerbaijani
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
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)
Etymology 2
Noun
kif (definite accusative kifi, plural kiflər)
Declension
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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)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “kif”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Maltese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Arabic كَيْفَ (kayfa). Compare Moroccan Arabic كيف (kīf).
Adverb
kif
- (interrogative) how
- 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)
- as
Etymology 2
Noun
kif m
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