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Bhang

Definition: Bhang

Bhang

Noun

1. A preparation of the leaves and flowers of the hemp plant; much used in India.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bhang" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1888. (references)

 

Synonyms within Context: Bhang

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Bane

Hemlock, hellebore, nightshade, belladonna, henbane, aconite; banewort, bhang, ganja, hashish; Upas tree.

Intemperance

Bhang, hashish, marijuana, pot, hemp, grass; opium, cocaine, morphine, heroin; LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide; phencyclidine, angel dust, PCP; barbiturates; amphetamines, speed.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Specialty Definition: Bhang

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Bhang is a drink popular in India. It is a brewed beverage made with milk, almonds, spices and the leaf and flower of a cannabis plant. Although it is illegal in some parts of the country, it is widely available and there is only a mild social stigma against drinking it.

See also: cannabis

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bhang."

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Crosswords: Bhang

English words defined with "bhang": BangueCannabis indicaIndian hemp. (references)

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Modern Usage: Bhang

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Vachan Bhang (1925)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Bhang

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

bhang

14
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Bhang

Language Translations for "bhang"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

bhang. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

bheng, bhang, marihuana (bash, boo 4)draw, cannabis, grass, hagga, Indian hay, marihuana, marijuana, Mary Jane, puff, root, smoke, snop, viper's weed, weed). (various references)

   

French

  

bhang. (various references)

   

German

  

Bhang. (various references)

   

Italian

  

bhang. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

angbhay

   

Romanian

  

haşiş (hashish). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

bhang, marijuana (cannabis, grass, joint, marijuana, pot), cáñamo (bang, hemp, hemp plant, true hemp). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

haschisch (hashish). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

nhai. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Bhang

Derivations

Words beginning with "bhang": bhangs. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Bhang" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bahagi, Bahang, bahg, bahn, bahng, bhag, B'hahn, bhain, bhamg, Bhangra, Bhanji, Bhingi, bhn, biang, blang, Bohana, buang, Dhang, ghang, Jhang, phang, Zhuang. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Bhang"

Words ending with "ang": Dwang, Flang, Krang, Lang, Strang, Vang. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Bhang

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-g-h-n"

-1 letter: bang, hang.

-2 letters: bag, bah, ban, gab, gan, hag, nab, nag, nah.

-3 letters: ab, ag, ah, an, ba, ha, na.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-g-h-n"
 

+1 letter: bhangs.

 

+2 letters: baching, bashing, bathing, hagborn, handbag, shebang.

 

+3 letters: abashing, batching, beaching, behaving, habiting, handbags, hangable, hangbird, shebangs, whizbang.

 

+4 letters: abhorring, ambushing, banishing, beheading, beshaming, blanching, bleaching, branching, breaching, breathing, broaching, habergeon, hamboning, hangbirds, harbinger, harboring, rehabbing, rhumbaing, shambling, whizbangs, whizzbang.

 

+5 letters: abolishing, adhibiting, barhopping, bechalking, bechancing, becharming, beheadings, bethanking, blathering, boxhauling, breathings, bunchgrass, bushranger, chambering, changeable, changeably, cohabiting, cohobating, debauching, habergeons, harbingers, harbouring, hebetating, hebraizing, hobnailing, husbanding, inhabiting, kurbashing, subheading, sunbathing, whizzbangs.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Bhang


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 68 61 6E 67

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    ....    .-    -.    --.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01101000 01100001 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#104 &#97 &#110 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0068 0061 006E 0067

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3674678073

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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