dagga
See also: Dagga
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Afrikaans dagga, from Khoekhoe daxab.
Pronunciation edit
- (General South African) IPA(key): /ˈdaɡə/, /ˈdaxa/
South Africa (file)
Noun edit
dagga (countable and uncountable, plural daggas)
- (South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia) Indian hemp, Cannabis sativa subsp. indica, or a similar plant of the species Leonotis leonurus.
- 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus, published 2010, page 217:
- He started to supplement them by smuggling dagga, and soon found it so profitable that he left the factory altogether.
- 1997, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 7, in Mason & Dixon, 1st US edition, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, part One: Latitudes and Departures, page 65:
- A few basic points, Sir. First, no unnatural Activities. Second, no Opium, no Dagga, no Ardent Spirits, no Wine, and so on.
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Etymology 2 edit
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dagga (uncountable)
Translations edit
cement — see cement
Afrikaans edit
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dagga (uncountable)
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Dupaningan Agta edit
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dagga
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Afrikaans dagga, from Khoekhoe daxab.
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dagga m (uncountable)
Icelandic edit
Etymology edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
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dagga