opium
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opium
- /ˈoʊ.pi.əm/ US
- /ˈəʊ.pi.əm/ UK
- /ˈoʊp.jəm/ archaic
Rhymes with -əʊpiəm
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin opium and Ancient Greek ὄπιον (ópion), from ὀπός (opós, “juice of a plant”), from Proto-Indo-European *sokʷós (“juice, resin”).
noun opiums · opia
- A yellow-brown, addictive narcotic drug obtained from the dried juice of unripe pods of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, and containing alkaloids such as morphine, codeine, and papaverine. From hence we firſt ſailed to Achin, in the iſland of Sumatra, and then to Siam, where we bartered our wares for ſome arrack and opium, the laſt of which bore a great price among the Chineſe:[…]
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Anything that numbs or stupefies.
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, […] It is the opium of the people.
Similar: opiate
Similar: aunti/aunti Emma, big O, chandu, Chinese tobacco, dopium, dream gun, dream stick, fi-do-nie, gee, God's medicine, gondola, goric, guma, hop/hops, meconium, midnight oil, mud, ope, pen yan, pin gon, pox, skee, toxy, when-shee, yen, ze, zero
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: heroin, opiate, eater, cultivation, poppy, the, narcotic, laudanum, paregoric, morphine, dope, hop, gum, codeine, papaverine, chandu
Translations
Every language
noun drug from opium poppy
| Español | opio, anfión |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 아편 apyeon |
| 日本語 | 鴉片 ahen, 阿片 ahen, オピウム opiumu |
| 中文 | 鴉片 /鸦片 yāpiàn, 阿片 āpiàn, 阿芙蓉 āfúróng |
| हिन्दी | अफ़ीम afīm, अहिफेन ahiphen, अफेन aphen |
| Kiswahili | afyuni |
| Português | ópio |
| Français | opium |
| Deutsch | Opium |
| Italiano | oppio |
| Ελληνικά | όπιο ópio |
| Română | opiu |
| Русский | о́пий ópij, о́пиум ópium |
| Tiếng Việt | thuốc phiện, á phiện |
| العربية | أَفْيُون ʔafyūn |
| עברית | אוֹפְּיוּם ópyum |
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