diamba
See also: diámbá
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diamba (uncountable)
- (Africa) marijuana
- 1863, Robert Clarke, “Sketches of the Colony of Sierra Leone and its Inhabitants”, in Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London[1], volume 2, page 357:
- They are much addicted to smoking diamba, but many of the other Africans at Sierra Leone likewise indulge in it.
- 1893, Heli Chatelain, “Bantu Notes and Vocabularies”, in Journal of the American Geographical Society of New York[2], volume 25, number 4, page 521:
- On his safe return, loaded with the white man's things, Kishimbu ascribed his good fortune to the inspiration of diamba-smoke. He advised all his people to adopt diamba smoking as a national custom […]
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- Hyphenation: di‧am‧ba
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diamba f (plural diambas)
- (Angola, Brazil) cannabis (plant)
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:canábis
- (Angola, Brazil) cannabis (drug)
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:canábis