Hemp

Pronunciation

• IPA: /hÉ›mp/
• Rhymes: -É›mp

Origin

From Middle English, from Old English hænep, from Proto-Germanic *hanapiz (compare Dutch hennep, German Hanf, Danish hamp), borrowed from Scytho-Sarmatian (compare Ossetian гӕн(ӕ) (gæn(æ)) ‘flax’, Khotanese kaṃhā ‘hemp’).

Michael Witzel, "Substrate Languages in Old Indo-Aryan (RÌ¥gvedic, Middle and Late Vedic)", Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies (EJVS) 5-1 (1999), 30.

Martin Schwartz, "Avestan Terms for the Sauma Plant", Haoma and Harmaline (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), 123.

See cannabis.

Full definition of hemp

Noun

1. A tall annual herb, Cannabis sativa, native to Asia.
2. Various products of this plant, including fibres and the drug cannabis.

Related terms

• hempen
• cannabis
• marijuana
• THC

Anagrams

• meph