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bhang en · NOUN

Transliteration of Hindustani بھانگ / भाँग (bhāṅg).

(uncountable) A traditional South Asian preparation made from the leaves and flowers of the cannabis plant, consumed in food or drink.
(India, Kenya, North, Pakistan, Uganda, qualifier:elsewhere slang, uncountable) Cannabis or its preparations generally.
- 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. 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 36
- Government-approved bhang shops thrive next to sweet shops flaunting rows of local desserts inside brightly lit, glass-panelled counters. 2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 13:
- Stramonium seed, mixed with wine, produces, according to a seventeenth century erotologist, libidinous activity. The effects, the write asserts, are similar to those produced by bhang. 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 229:
- He rolled out from under Zelikman, who looked surprised as if by the turn his bhang dream had taken. 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre 2008, page 101:

Spelling	Labels	Source
bangue	alternative, archaic	lexicographic
benj	alternative, archaic	lexicographic
bang	alternative, archaic	lexicographic