opium

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• General-American: /ˈoʊ.pi.əm/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈəʊ.pi.əm/
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• rhymes with -əʊpiəm
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• ōp′yəm
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• archaic: /ˈoʊp.jəm/
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• CMU ARPABET: OW1 P IY0 AH0 M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sokwós Ancient Greek ὀπός (opós) Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Ancient Greek -ῐος (-ĭos)? Ancient Greek -ῐον (-ĭon) Ancient Greek ὄπιον (ópion)bor. Latin opiumbor. ▲ Ancient Greek ὄπιον (ópion)bor. English opium Borrowed from Latin opium and Ancient Greek ὄπιον (ópion), from ὀπός (opós, “juice of a plant”), from Proto-Indo-European *sokwós (“juice, resin”).

153 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: أَفْيُون (ʔafyūn) — drug from opium poppy
• Arabic: افيون (afyūn) — drug from opium poppy
• Armenian: ափիոն (apʻion) — drug from opium poppy
• Assamese: কানি (kani) — drug from opium poppy
• Assamese: আফিং (aphiṅ) — drug from opium poppy
• Asturian: opiu — drug from opium poppy
• Azerbaijani: afyon — drug from opium poppy
• Azerbaijani: opium — drug from opium poppy
• Belarusian: о́пій (ópij) — drug from opium poppy
• Belarusian: о́піюм (ópijum) — drug from opium poppy
• Bengali: আফিম (aphim) — drug from opium poppy
• Bulgarian: о́пиум (ópium) — drug from opium poppy
• Burmese: ဘိန်း (bhin:) — drug from opium poppy
• Catalan: opi — drug from opium poppy
• Cebuano: ampiyon — drug from opium poppy
• Cebuano: upyo — drug from opium poppy
• Cebuano: upyum — drug from opium poppy
• Chinese Cantonese: 鴉片 /鸦片 (aa1 pin3) — drug from opium poppy
• Eastern Min Chinese: 鴉片 /鸦片 (ă-piéng) — drug from opium poppy
• Eastern Min Chinese: 阿片 (ă-piéng) — drug from opium poppy
• Chinese: 鴉片 /鸦片 (zh-min-nan) — drug from opium poppy
• Chinese Mandarin: 鴉片 /鸦片 (yāpiàn) — drug from opium poppy
• Chinese Mandarin: 阿片 (āpiàn) — drug from opium poppy
• Chinese Mandarin: 阿芙蓉 (āfúróng) — drug from opium poppy
• Czech: opium — drug from opium poppy
• Danish: opium — drug from opium poppy
• Dutch: opium — drug from opium poppy
• Esperanto: opio — drug from opium poppy
• Estonian: oopium — drug from opium poppy
• Finnish: oopiumi — drug from opium poppy
• French: opium — drug from opium poppy
• Galician: opio — drug from opium poppy
• Georgian: ოპიუმი (oṗiumi) — drug from opium poppy
• German: Opium — drug from opium poppy
• Greek: όπιο (ópio) — drug from opium poppy
• Ancient Greek: μηκώνιον (mēkṓnion) — drug from opium poppy
• Ancient Greek: ὄπιον (ópion) — drug from opium poppy
• Greenlandic: opiummi — drug from opium poppy
• Gujarati: અફીણ (aphīṇ) — drug from opium poppy
• Gujarati: અહિફેન (ahiphen) — drug from opium poppy
• Hawaiian: ʻopiuma — drug from opium poppy
• Hebrew: אוֹפְּיוּם (ópyum) — drug from opium poppy
• Hiligaynon: apián — drug from opium poppy
• Hiligaynon: ópyo — drug from opium poppy
• Hindi: अफ़ीम (afīm) — drug from opium poppy
• Hindi: अहिफेन (ahiphen) — drug from opium poppy
• Hindi: अफेन (aphen) — drug from opium poppy
• Hungarian: ópium — drug from opium poppy
• Hungarian: áfium — drug from opium poppy
• Iban: piun — drug from opium poppy
• Iban: chandu — drug from opium poppy
• Icelandic: ópíum — drug from opium poppy
• Indonesian: apiun — drug from opium poppy
• Indonesian: candu — drug from opium poppy
• Indonesian: madat — drug from opium poppy
• Indonesian: opium — drug from opium poppy
• Irish: óipiam — drug from opium poppy
• Italian: oppio — drug from opium poppy
• Japanese: 鴉片 (ahen) — drug from opium poppy
• Japanese: 阿片 (ahen) — drug from opium poppy
• Japanese: オピウム (opiumu) — drug from opium poppy
• Javanese: ꦩꦢꦠ꧀ (madat) — drug from opium poppy
• Javanese: ꦕꦤ꧀ꦢꦸ (candu) — drug from opium poppy
• Jeju: 얘펜 (yaepen) — drug from opium poppy
• Jingpho: ka-ni — drug from opium poppy
• Kalmyk: манцн (mantsn) — drug from opium poppy
• Kannada: ಅಫೀಮು (aphīmu) — drug from opium poppy
• Kannada: ಎಲೆಮದ್ದು (elemaddu) — drug from opium poppy
• Kazakh: апиын (apiyn) — drug from opium poppy
• Khmer: អាភៀន (ʼaaphiən) — drug from opium poppy
• Korean: 아편 (apyeon) — drug from opium poppy
• Northern Kurdish: afyon — drug from opium poppy
• Kyrgyz: апийим (apiyim) — drug from opium poppy
• Lao: ຝີ່ນ (fīn) — drug from opium poppy
• Lithuanian: opijus — drug from opium poppy
• Lithuanian: opiumas — drug from opium poppy
• Lü: ᦚᦲᧃᧈ (ḟiin1) — drug from opium poppy
• Macedonian: опиум (opium) — drug from opium poppy
• Malay: candu — drug from opium poppy
• Malay: candu — drug from opium poppy
• Malayalam: കറുപ്പ് (kaṟuppŭ) — drug from opium poppy
• Malayalam: അവീൻ (avīṉ) — drug from opium poppy
• Maltese: loppju — drug from opium poppy
• Manchu: ᠶᠠᡵᠰᡳ (yarsi) — drug from opium poppy
• Māori: opiuma — drug from opium poppy
• Maranao: ampiyon — drug from opium poppy
• Maranao: apiyon — drug from opium poppy
• Maranao: apiyom — drug from opium poppy
• Mon: ဘိၚ် (phìn) — drug from opium poppy
• Mon: ဘိၚ် (phòiŋ) — drug from opium poppy
• Mongolian: опиум (opium) — drug from opium poppy
• Mongolian: мансууруулагч (mansuuruulagč) — drug from opium poppy
• Nepali: अफिम (aphim) — drug from opium poppy
• Newar: अफिम (aphima) — drug from opium poppy
• Norwegian Bokmål: opium — drug from opium poppy
• Norwegian Nynorsk: opium — drug from opium poppy
• Occitan: opiom — drug from opium poppy
• Pashto: اپيم (apim) — drug from opium poppy
• Pashto: اپين (apin) — drug from opium poppy
• Persian: افیون (afyun) — drug from opium poppy
• Polish: opium — drug from opium poppy
• Portuguese: ópio — drug from opium poppy
• Punjabi: ਅਫੀਮ (aphīm) — drug from opium poppy
• Romanian: opiu — drug from opium poppy
• Russian: о́пий (ópij) — drug from opium poppy
• Russian: о́пиум (ópium) — drug from opium poppy
• Sanskrit: अहिफेन (ahiphena) — drug from opium poppy
• Serbo-Croatian: о̀пијӯм — drug from opium poppy
• Serbo-Croatian: òpijūm — drug from opium poppy
• Shan: ၽိင်း (phíng) — drug from opium poppy
• Shan: ၽိၼ် (phǐn) — drug from opium poppy
• Sicilian: loppiu — drug from opium poppy
• Sindhi: आफ़ीम (āfīma) — drug from opium poppy
• Sinhalese: අබිං (abiṁ) — drug from opium poppy
• Sinhalese: කංසා (kaṁsā) — drug from opium poppy
• Sinhalese: මාඩා (māḍā) — drug from opium poppy
• Slovak: ópium — drug from opium poppy
• Spanish: opio — drug from opium poppy
• Spanish: anfión — drug from opium poppy
• Swahili: afyuni — drug from opium poppy
• Swedish: opium — drug from opium poppy
• Tagalog: opyum — drug from opium poppy
• Tagalog: opyo — drug from opium poppy
• Tagalog: apyan — drug from opium poppy
• Tagalog: ampiyon — drug from opium poppy
• Tajik: афюн (afyun) — drug from opium poppy
• Tamil: அபினி (apiṉi) — drug from opium poppy
• Tamil: அபின் (apiṉ) — drug from opium poppy
• Telugu: నల్లమందు (nallamandu) — drug from opium poppy
• Telugu: అభిని (abhini) — drug from opium poppy
• Thai: ฝิ่น (fìn) — drug from opium poppy
• Tulu: ಅಫೀಮು (aphīmu) — drug from opium poppy
• Tulu: ಅಫೀನಿ (aphīni) — drug from opium poppy
• Turkish: afyon — drug from opium poppy
• Ukrainian: о́пій (ópij) — drug from opium poppy
• Ukrainian: о́піум (ópium) — drug from opium poppy
• Urdu: افیون (afyūn) — drug from opium poppy
• Uzbek: afyun — drug from opium poppy
• Vietnamese: thuốc phiện — drug from opium poppy
• Vietnamese: á phiện — drug from opium poppy
• Waray-Waray: opyo — drug from opium poppy
• Welsh: opiwm — drug from opium poppy
• Chinese Mandarin: 鴉片 /鸦片 (yāpiàn) — anything that numbs or stupefies
• Chinese Mandarin: 麻藥 /麻药 (máyào) — anything that numbs or stupefies
• Dutch: opium — anything that numbs or stupefies
• Finnish: oopiumi — anything that numbs or stupefies
• German: Opium — anything that numbs or stupefies
• Greek: όπιο (ópio) — anything that numbs or stupefies
• Icelandic: ópíum — anything that numbs or stupefies
• Polish: opium — anything that numbs or stupefies
• Polish: opium dla mas — anything that numbs or stupefies
• Serbo-Croatian: о̀пијӯм — anything that numbs or stupefies
• Serbo-Croatian: òpijūm — anything that numbs or stupefies