diamba

See also: diámbá

English

Noun

diamba (uncountable)

  1. (Africa) marijuana
    • 1863, Robert Clarke, “Sketches of the Colony of Sierra Leone and its Inhabitants”, in Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London‎, 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, 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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Noun

diamba f (plural diambas)

  1. (Angola) cannabis (plant)
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:canábis
  2. (Angola) cannabis (drug)
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:canábis
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