Wednesday, 24 October 2012

القنب cannabis

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Etymology of Arabic words: the word القنب
(qinnab,qunnab) means cannabis (Wikipedia:Cannabis is an annual, dioecious, flowering herb. The leaves are palmately compound or digitate, with serrate leaflets) derives from the ancient greek word κάνναβη/κάνναβις (cannavis) which is probably a loan word in the Antiquity from the old languages of Scythian or Thracian.






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