name
Meaning 1
A city in Azerbaijan.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
ganja
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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India: /ˈɡɑn.d͡ʒɑ/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɡæn.dʒə/
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General-American: /ˈɡɑn.d͡ʒə/
noun
Meaning 2
Marijuana, the inflorescence of the Cannabis sativa plant, smoked or ingested for euphoric effect.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Caribbean, Singapore, South-Asia, especially, uncountable, usually
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bhang, benj, boo, broccoli, bud, buddha, cannabis, cheeba, choof, daccha, dank, devil's lettuce, djamba, doja, doobage, dope, endo, gage, ganja, ganj, grass, green, greenery, hash, hashish, hemp, herb, Mary Jane, MJ, marihoochie, marijuana, Mary Joanna, method, mezz, muggle, mull, pot, puff, reefer, sens, sensimillia, sensimilla, shit, sweetleaf, tea, Texas tea, trees, twig, wacky tobaccy, weed, yarndie, zaza, zombie
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
the most commonly used illicit drug; considered a soft drug, it consists of the dried leaves of the hemp plant; smoked or chewed for euphoric effect
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: cannabis, marijuana, marihuana
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: controlled substance, soft drug
Narrower terms: Acapulco gold, Mexican green, pot, grass, green goddess, dope, weed, gage, sess, sens, smoke, skunk, locoweed, Mary Jane
noun
Meaning 4
a strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: marijuana, marihuana, Cannabis sativa
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: cannabis, hemp
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian گنجه (ganja), from Middle Persian gncg (Ganzag).
Borrowed from Hindi गांजा (gāñjā), ultimately from Sanskrit गञ्जा (gañjā, “hemp”). First use appears c. 1800.
Across languages
Translations
36 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: Գյանջա (Gyanǰa) — city
- Armenian: Գանձակ (Ganjak) — city
- Azerbaijani: Gəncə — city
- Bengali: গঞ্জা (gonja) — city
- Chinese Mandarin: 占賈 (Zhànjiǎ) — city
- Danish: Gandja — city
- Georgian: განჯა (ganǯa) — city
- Korean: 간자 (ganja) — city
- Persian: گنجه (ganja /ganje) — city
- Russian: Гянджа́ (Gjandžá) — city
- Tajik: Ганҷа (Ganja) — city
- Turkish: Gence — city
- Afrikaans: ganja — slang for marijuana
- Bengali: গাঁজা (gãja) — slang for marijuana
- Burmese: ဂန်ဂျာ (gan-gya) — slang for marijuana
- Danish: ganja — slang for marijuana
- German: Ganja — slang for marijuana
- Gujarati: ગાંજો (gā̃jo) — slang for marijuana
- Hindi: गांजा (gāñjā) — slang for marijuana
- Hindi: गाँजा (gāñjā) — slang for marijuana
- Kannada: ಗಾಂಜಾ (gāñjā) — slang for marijuana
- Khmer: កញ្ឆា (kɑɑkɑñchaa) — slang for marijuana
- Lao: ກັນຊາ (kan sā) — slang for marijuana
- Malay: ganja — slang for marijuana
- Malayalam: കഞ്ചാവ് (kañcāvŭ) — slang for marijuana
- Nepali: गाँजा (gā̃jā) — slang for marijuana
- Portuguese: ganja — slang for marijuana
- Portuguese: ganza — slang for marijuana
- Punjabi: ਗਾਂਜਾ (gāñjā) — slang for marijuana
- Serbo-Croatian: га̑нџа — slang for marijuana
- Serbo-Croatian: gȃndža — slang for marijuana
- Tamil: கஞ்சா (kañcā) — slang for marijuana
- Telugu: గంజాయి (gañjāyi) — slang for marijuana
- Thai: กัญชา (gan-chaa) — slang for marijuana
- Urdu: گَانْجَا (gānjā) — slang for marijuana
- Vietnamese: cần sa — slang for marijuana