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別の表記

• ganjah
• ganga, gunga, gunjah (obsolete)

語源

Borrowed from Hindi गांजा (gāñjā), ultimately from Sanskrit गञ्जा (gañjā, “hemp”). First use appears c. 1800.

発音

• (India) IPA: /ˈɡɑn.d͡ʒɑ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɡæn.dʒə/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈɡɑn.d͡ʒə/

名詞

ganja (usually uncountable, plural ganjas)

1. (especially India, Singapore, Caribbean) Marijuana, the inflorescence of the Cannabis sativa plant, smoked or ingested for euphoric effect.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marijuana

   • 1873, Indian Antiquary, Volume 2, Popular Prakashan, page 271:

     Whilst a ganja-eater was catching fish on the bank of a river, a man from another country came and asked which was the road and what was his name; he replied that his name was "eater of six maunds of ganja."

   • 1892, The Medical Reporter: A Record of Medicine, Surgery, Public Health and of General Medical Intelligence, Volume 1, Medical Publishing Press, page 126:

     There were altogether 2,202 admissions to the five asylums of this province during that time, and of that number it was ascertained that 641 were ganja smokers, 117 were spirit drinkers, and 8 were opium-eaters, the percentages being ganja 291 spririts 5'8, opium 036 per cent.

   • 1898, American Druggist and Pharmaceutical Record, Volume 33, American Druggist Publishing Company, page 102:

     In Bengal the natives talk of the ganja-bearing plant as the male and the weaker pollen-bearing plant as the female.

   • 2009, “Must Be the Ganja”, in Relapse, performed by Eminem:

     It must be the ganja, it's the marijuana / That's creeping up on me, why I'm so high

派生語

• ganj
• ganjaism
• ganjapreneur

派生した語

• → Afrikaans: ganja
• → English: gunja
  • → Tiwi: kanja
• → French: ganja
• → German: Ganja
• → Italian: gangia
• → Japanese: ガンジャ (ganja)
• → Portuguese: ganja
• → Serbo-Croatian: га̑нџа, gȃndža, га̏нџа, gȁndža
• → Spanish: ganya

アナグラム

• Jagan