bhang

English

Etymology

Transliteration of Hindustani بھانگ / भाँग (bhāṅg).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bæŋ/, /baŋ/
• Rhymes: -æŋ
• Homophone: bang

Noun

bhang (uncountable)

1. (India, Kenya, Uganda, elsewhere slang) Cannabis and preparations thereof.
   • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 36:

     Almost from the outset of her arrival in the town, soft-muted music, the strange, heart-rending, mournful music of the East - suggestive of apes, and pearls, and bhang, and the colour blue - was to be heard, surging from the Nook in monotonous improvisation.

   • 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre 2008, page 101:

     He rolled out from under Zelikman, who looked surprised as if by the turn his bhang dream had taken.

   • 2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 13:

     Government-approved bhang shops thrive next to sweet shops flaunting rows of local desserts inside brightly lit, glass-panelled counters.

Alternative forms

• bang, bangue

Derived terms

• bhang lassi
• bhangmeter

Irish

Noun

bhang

1. Lenited form of bang.

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
bhang	bhhang	mbhang
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.