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diamba

diamba noun: marijuana.

Noun

diamba (uncountable)

  1. (Africa) marijuana
    • They are much addicted to smoking diamba, but many of the other Africans at Sierra Leone likewise indulge in it.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
    • 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 […]1893, Heli Chatelain, “Bantu Notes and Vocabularies”, in Journal of the American Geographical Society of New York, volume 25, number 4, page 521

Questions about diamba

What does diamba mean?
Diamba means marijuana.
What part of speech is diamba?
Diamba is a noun.

Words near diamba in the dictionary

  1. Diamants
  2. diamanté
  3. diamantés
  4. diamat
  5. diamb
  6. diamba
  7. diambic
  8. diambs
  9. diamesic
  10. diameter
  11. diameters

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