drug

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈdɹʌɡ/
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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: [ˈdɹ̝wʌɡ]
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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: [ˈd̠ɹ̠˔wʌɡ]
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• Australian, New-Zealand: /dɹɐɡ/
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• Northern-England: /dɹʊɡ/
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• Scotland, Wales: /ˈdɾʌɡ/
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• rhymes with -ʌɡ
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• CMU ARPABET: D R AH1 G Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English drogge (“medicine”), from Middle French drogue, drocque (“tincture, pharmaceutical product”) (c. 1462), from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German droge, as in droge vate (“dry vats, dry barrels”), mistaking droge for the contents, which were usually dried herbs, plants or wares. Droge comes from Middle Dutch drōghe (“dry”), from Old Dutch drōgi (“dry”), from Proto-Germanic *draugiz (“dry, hard”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dherǵh- (“to strengthen; become hard or solid”), from *dher- (“to hold, hold fast, support”). Cognate with English dry, Dutch droog (“dry”), German trocken (“dry”).

Germanic ablaut formation. If old, a doublet of drew, from Middle English drug, drog, drugh, drogh, from Old English drōg, from Proto-Germanic *drōg; compare Dutch droeg, German trug, Swedish drog. If secondary, probably formed by analogy with dug.

209 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: عَقَّار (ʕaqqār) — substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine
• Bulgarian: лека́рство (lekárstvo) — substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine
• Catalan: fàrmac — substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine
• Chinese Mandarin: 藥 /药 (yào) — substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine
• Chinese Mandarin: 藥材 /药材 (yàocái) — substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine
• Chinese Mandarin: 藥物 /药物 (yàowù) — substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine
• Chinese Mandarin: 藥品 /药品 (yàopǐn) — substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine
• Corsican: druga — substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine
• Danish: droge — substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine
• Dutch: geneesmiddel — substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine
• Dutch: medicijn — substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine
• Finnish: lääke — substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine
• French: drogue — substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine
• German: Arznei — substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine
• German: Droge — substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine
• German: Medikament — substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine
• Greek: φάρμακο (fármako) — substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine
• Ancient Greek: φάρμακον (phármakon) — substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine
• Hebrew: סַם (sam) — substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine
• Hungarian: gyógyszer — substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine
• Hungarian: orvosság — substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine
• Irish: druga — substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine
• Japanese: 薬 (kusuri) — substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine
• Japanese: 医薬品 (iyakuhin) — substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine
• Japanese: 薬剤 (yakuzai) — substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine
• Malay: ubat — substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine
• Malay: dadah — substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine
• Māori: pūroi — substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine
• Norwegian Bokmål: droge — substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine
• Norwegian Bokmål: legemiddel — substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine
• Norwegian Nynorsk: droge — substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine
• Ojibwe: mashkiki — substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine
• Russian: лека́рство (lekárstvo) — substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine
• Sanskrit: औषध (auṣadha) — substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine
• Sanskrit: भेषज (bheṣaja) — substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine
• Sanskrit: अगद (agada) — substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine
• Spanish: droga — substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine
• Spanish: fármaco — substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine
• Swahili: dawa — substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine
• Swahili: dawa ya famasia — substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine
• Swedish: drog — substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine
• Ottoman Turkish: علاج (ʿilac) — substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine
• Albanian: narkotik — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Albanian: drogë — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Albanian: droga — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Antillean Creole: dwòg — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Western Apache: izeeʼ dénchǫʼí — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Arabic: مُخَدِّر (muḵaddir) — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Armenian: թմրամիջոց (tʻmramiǰocʻ) — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Armenian: նարկոտիկ (narkotik) — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Aromanian: droagã — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Aromanian: droaga — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Aromanian: drogã f droghe — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Aromanian: droga — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Azerbaijani: narkotik — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Belarusian: нарко́тык (narkótyk) — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Bengali: নেশা (neśa) — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Bulgarian: дро́га (dróga) — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Bulgarian: наркоти́к (narkotík) — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Burmese: ဆေး (hce:) — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Catalan: droga — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Catalan: estupefaent — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Chinese Mandarin: 毒品 (dúpǐn) — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Chinese Mandarin: 麻醉品 (mázuìpǐn) — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Chinese Mandarin: 麻醉 (mázuì) — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Chinese Mandarin: 麻藥 /麻药 (máyào) — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Chinese Mandarin: 麻醉劑 /麻醉剂 (mázuìjì) — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Corsican: droga — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Czech: droga — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Danish: stof — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Danish: rusmiddel — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Danish: narko — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Danish: narkotikum — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Dutch: drug — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Esperanto: drogo — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Estonian: uimasti — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Estonian: narkootikum — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Finnish: huume — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Finnish: huumausaine — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• French: drogue — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• West-Frisian: drug — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Georgian: ნარკოტიკი (narḳoṭiḳi) — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• German: Droge — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• German: Rauschgift — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• German: Rauschmittel — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• German: Betäubungsmittel — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Greek: ναρκωτικό (narkotikó) — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Hebrew: סַם (sam) — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Hindi: मादक (mādak) — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Hindi: नशा (naśā) — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Hungarian: drog — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Hungarian: kábítószer — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Icelandic: eiturlyf — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Icelandic: fíkniefni — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Indonesian: narkoba — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Indonesian: narkotik — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Irish: druga — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Italian: droga — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Italian: stupefacente — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Japanese: 麻薬 (mayaku) — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Japanese: 薬物 — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Kazakh: еліткіш (elıtkış) — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Kazakh: есірткі (esırtkı) — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Kazakh: есірткіш (esırtkış) — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Kazakh: наша (naşa) — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Khmer: ថ្នាំញៀន (thnam ñiən) — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Khmer: គ្រឿងញៀន (krɨəng ñiən) — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Korean: 마약 (mayak) — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Kyrgyz: наркотик (narkotik) — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Kyrgyz: баңгизат (baŋgizat) — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Lao: ຢາເສບຕິດ (yā sēp tit) — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Latvian: narkotika — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Lithuanian: narkotikas — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Macedonian: дрога (droga) — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Macedonian: наркотик (narkotik) — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Malay: narkotik — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Malay: dadah — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Malayalam: മയക്കുമരുന്ന് (mayakkumarunnŭ) — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Māori: whakapōauau — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Māori: pōau — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Mongolian: бодис (bodis) — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Mongolian: наркотик (narkotik) — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Mongolian: мансууруулах бодис (mansuuruulax bodis) — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Nepali: मादक (mādak) — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Norwegian Bokmål: narkotikum — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Norwegian Bokmål: rusmiddel — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Norwegian Nynorsk: narkotikum — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Occitan: dròga — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Pashto: مخدر (muxadér) — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Iranian Persian: مُخَدِّر (moxadder) — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Polish: narkotyk — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Polish: drag — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Portuguese: droga — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Portuguese: narcótico — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Romanian: drog — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Romanian: narcotică — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Russian: нарко́тик (narkótik) — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Russian: наркота́ (narkotá) — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Russian: дурь (durʹ) — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Serbo-Croatian: дро́га — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Serbo-Croatian: нарко̀тик — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Serbo-Croatian: dróga — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Serbo-Croatian: narkòtik — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Slovak: droga — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Slovene: droga — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Lower Sorbian: droga — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Spanish: droga — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Spanish: narcótico — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Swahili: dawa ya kulevya — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Swedish: drog — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Swedish: knark — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Swedish: narkotika — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Tagalog: droga — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Tajik: мухаддир (muxaddir) — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Tajik: анвои нашъа (anvo-yi naš'a) — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Thai: ยาเสพติด (yaa-sèep-dtìt) — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Turkish: uyuşturucu — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Turkish: narkotik — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Ukrainian: нарко́тик (narkótyk) — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Urdu: مادَک (mādak) — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Urdu: نَشَہ (naśa) — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Urdu: مُخَدِّر (muxaddir) — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Uyghur: ناركوتىك (narkotik) — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Uzbek: narkotik — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Uzbek: tinchlantiruvchi — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Vietnamese: ma túy — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Welsh: cyffur — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Yiddish: נאַרקאָטיק (narkotik) — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Zhuang: doeg — psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
• Bulgarian: дрогирам се (drogiram se) — to administer intoxicating drugs
• Bulgarian: взимам наркотици (vzimam narkotici) — to administer intoxicating drugs
• Chinese Mandarin: 下毒 (xiàdú) — to administer intoxicating drugs
• Chinese Mandarin: 下藥 /下药 (xiàyào) — to administer intoxicating drugs
• Czech: fetovat — to administer intoxicating drugs
• Czech: zdrogovat se — to administer intoxicating drugs
• Dutch: drogeren — to administer intoxicating drugs
• Finnish: huumata — to administer intoxicating drugs
• French: droguer — to administer intoxicating drugs
• Galician: drogar — to administer intoxicating drugs
• Greek: ναρκώνω (narkóno) — to administer intoxicating drugs
• Hebrew: סִמֵּם (simém) — to administer intoxicating drugs
• Ido: narkotigar — to administer intoxicating drugs
• Lithuanian: narkošintis — to administer intoxicating drugs
• Lithuanian: kaifuoti — to administer intoxicating drugs
• Lithuanian: vartoti narkotikus — to administer intoxicating drugs
• Lithuanian: sėsti ant adatos — to administer intoxicating drugs
• Polish: ćpać — to administer intoxicating drugs
• Polish: naćpać się — to administer intoxicating drugs
• Polish: narkotyzować się — to administer intoxicating drugs
• Polish: szprycować — to administer intoxicating drugs
• Polish: naszprycować — to administer intoxicating drugs
• Portuguese: drogar — to administer intoxicating drugs
• Romanian: droga — to administer intoxicating drugs
• Russian: нака́чивать (nakáčivatʹ) — to administer intoxicating drugs
• Russian: накача́ть pf наркотиками (nakačátʹ) — to administer intoxicating drugs
• Serbo-Croatian: дроги́рати се — to administer intoxicating drugs
• Serbo-Croatian: drogírati se — to administer intoxicating drugs
• Spanish: drogar — to administer intoxicating drugs
• Spanish: endrogar — to administer intoxicating drugs
• Spanish: pichicatear — to administer intoxicating drugs
• Swedish: droga — to administer intoxicating drugs
• Dutch: drogeren — to add intoxicating drugs to something
• Finnish: laittaa huumausainetta — to add intoxicating drugs to something
• Greek: βάζω ναρκωτικό (vázo narkotikó) — to add intoxicating drugs to something
• Italian: drogare — to add intoxicating drugs to something
• Finnish: lääkitä — to prescribe or administer medicines
• Spanish: drogarse — to use intoxicating drugs
• Spanish: endrogarse — to use intoxicating drugs
• Spanish: pichicatearse — to use intoxicating drugs