marijuana

Forms

marijuana f (uncountable)^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from Spanish marijuana;^[2] DEX, MDA2 and DILF also name French marijuana as a source.^[3][4][2] Marcu and Maneca and NODEX name Spanish alone, while Dimitrescu adds English marijuana.^[5][6][7] Wiktionary treats it as an unadapted borrowing of the French word, which is itself from Spanish.^[1] The Spanish spelling is kept, and the word is pronounced with /h/ or /hw/: [marihuana].^[3][1][8]

Earliest recorded meaning

MDA2's first record is the first edition of DEX, of 1975.^[4] Dimitrescu's dictionary of new words quotes it from a newspaper of July 1977, in a report on hashish, marijuana and heroin smuggled into Sweden.^[7]

Timeline

• 1975 – recorded in DEX.^[4]
• 1977 – in a newspaper report on drug smuggling.^[7]

Meanings

Noun

1. A drug similar to hashish, made from the dried leaves and flowers of a kind of hemp.^[3][4][1]
2. A dose of this drug.^[4]

Usage notes

Slang has many names for it, among them iarbă “grass”, Maria and verde “green”.^[9]

References

1. ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b Costăchescu, Adriana; Dincă, Daniela; Dragoste, Ramona; Popescu, Mihaela; Scurtu, Gabriela (2009–2010), Dicționar de împrumuturi lexicale din limba franceză (DILF), 2 vols., Craiova: Universitaria, p. s.v. marijuana
3. ^ a b c DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 620
4. ^ a b c d e Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 1, 1434
5. ^ Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. s.v. marijuana
6. ^ Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2002), Noul dicționar explicativ al limbii române, București: Litera Internațional
7. ^ a b c Dimitrescu, Florica (1997), Dicționar de cuvinte recente, 2nd ed., București: Logos (with the 3rd ed., 2013, in CLRE), p. s.v. marijuana
8. ^ Breban, Vasile (1980), Dicționar al limbii române contemporane de uz curent, București: Editura Științifică și Enciclopedică
9. ^ Volceanov, George (2007), Dicționar de argou al limbii române, București: Niculescu