ganja

• ganga, gunja
• gunga, gunjah (dated)

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

• (India) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑn.d͡ʒɑ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡæn.dʒə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑn.d͡ʒə/

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

• ganj
• ganjaism
• ganjapreneur

• → 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

• Jagan

Probably borrowed from English ganja, from Hindi गांजा (gāñjā), ultimately from Sanskrit गञ्जा (gañjā, “hemp”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡan.dʒa/

ganja (uncountable)

1. (Cape Afrikaans) weed, marijuana

From Hindi गांजा (gāñjā), ultimately from Sanskrit गञ्जा (gañjā, “hemp”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡandja]

ganja c (singular definite ganjaen, not used in plural form)

1. ganja

• skunk
• marihuana
• cannabis

• “ganja” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Hindi गांजा (gāñjā), ultimately from Sanskrit गञ्जा (gañjā, “hemp”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑndʒɑ/, [ˈɡɑ̝n.dʒɑ̝]
• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑnjɑ/, [ˈɡɑ̝njɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑndʒɑ

ganja (slang)

1. ganja

• paja
• budi
• kannabis

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡan.d͡ʒa]
• Hyphenation: gan‧ja

From Malay ganja, from Sanskrit गञ्जा (gañjā, “hemp”).

ganja (plural ganja-ganja)

1. marijuana

   Synonyms: mariyuana, gele, gelek, cimeng

From Javanese ꦒꦚ꧀ꦗ (ganja) and Sundanese [Term?], from Old Javanese gañja.

ganja (plural ganja-ganja)

1. (dialect) top (of a kris)
2. (dialect) top (of a kujang)

• mal

From Madurese [Term?].

ganja (comparative lebih ganja, superlative paling ganja)

1. a teenager's voice as it becomes heavier during puberty

• “ganja”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

ganja

1. romanization of ꦒꦚ꧀ꦗ

From Sanskrit गञ्जा (gañjā, “hemp”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡan.d͡ʒa]

ganja (Jawi spelling ݢنجا)

1. marijuana

• Indonesian: ganja (“marijuana”)

• “ganja”, in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu [Malay Literary Reference Centre] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃ʒɐ
• Hyphenation: gan‧ja

Borrowed from Kimbundu nganji.

ganja f (usually uncountable, plural ganjas)

1. (Brazil, slang) arrogance or vanity

Borrowed from Hindi गांजा (gāñjā), ultimately from Sanskrit गञ्जा (gañjā, “hemp”).

ganja f (usually uncountable, plural ganjas)

1. (slang) marijuana

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:canábis

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ganja class IX (plural ganja class X)

1. marijuana

   Synonym: bangi

Borrowed from Hindi गांजा (gāñjā), ultimately from Sanskrit गञ्जा (gañjā, “hemp”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡɑnˈʒɑ/
• IPA^(key): /ɡɑnˈdʒɑ/
• Rhymes: -ʒɑ, -dʒɑ

ganja (definite accusative ganjayı, plural ganjalar)

1. (slang) ganja