Borrowed fromLatin opium andAncient Greek ὄπιον ( ópion ) , fromὀπός ( opós ,“ juice of a plant ” ) , fromProto-Indo-European *sokʷós ( “ juice, resin ” ) .
opium (countable anduncountable ,plural opiums or opia )
( uncountable ) Ayellow -brown ,addictive narcotic drug obtained from thedried juice ofunripe pods of theopium poppy ,Papaver somniferum , and containingalkaloids such asmorphine ,codeine , andpapaverine .Synonyms: see Thesaurus:opium 1777 , [Daniel Defoe ],The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, [ … ] , 7th edition, London: [ … ] S. Crowder, [ … ] ; J. Sewell, [ … ] ; W. Johnston, [ … ] ; and B. Law, [ … ] ,→OCLC ,page277 :From hence we firſt ſailed toAchin , in the iſland ofSumatra , and then toSiam , where we bartered our wares for ſome arrack andopium , the laſt of which bore a great price among the Chineſe:[ …]
1961 ,Harry E. Wedeck ,Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs , New York: The Citadel Press, page169 :Opium is largely used by the Chinese as a sexual provocation, both by men and women.
( by extension, countable ) Anything thatnumbs orstupefies .drug from opium poppy
Arabic:أَفْيُون (ar) m ( ʔafyūn ) Egyptian Arabic:افيون m ( afyūn ) Armenian:ափիոն (hy) ( apʻion ) Assamese:কানি ( kani ) ,আফিং ( aphiṅ ) Asturian:opiu m Azerbaijani:afyon ,opium Belarusian:о́пій m ( ópij ) ,о́піюм m ( ópijum ) Bengali:আফিম (bn) ( aphim ) Bulgarian:о́пиум (bg) m ( ópium ) Burmese:ဘိန်း (my) ( bhin: ) Catalan:opi (ca) Cebuano:ampiyon ,upyo ,upyum Chinese:Cantonese:鴉片 / 鸦片 ( aa1 pin3 ) Eastern Min:鴉片 / 鸦片 ( ă-piéng ) ,阿片 ( ă-piéng ) Hokkien:鴉片 / 鸦片 (zh-min-nan) ( a-phiàn ) Mandarin:鴉片 / 鸦片 (zh) ( yāpiàn ) ,阿片 (zh) ( āpiàn ) ,阿芙蓉 (zh) ( āfúróng ) ( dated ) Czech:opium (cs) n Danish:opium c Dutch:opium (nl) m or n Esperanto:opio (eo) Estonian:oopium Finnish:oopiumi (fi) French:opium (fr) m Galician:opio m Georgian:ოპიუმი ( oṗiumi ) German:Opium (de) n Greek:όπιο (el) n ( ópio ) Ancient:μηκώνιον n ( mēkṓnion ) ,ὄπιον n ( ópion ) Greenlandic:opiummi Gujarati:અફીણ (gu) ( aphīṇ ) ,અહિફેન ( ahiphen ) Hawaiian:ʻopiuma Hiligaynon:apián ,ópyo Hindi:अफ़ीम ( afīm ) ,अहिफेन (hi) ( ahiphen ) ,अफेन (hi) ( aphen ) Hungarian:ópium (hu) ,áfium (hu) Iban:piun ,chandu ,chandu Icelandic:ópíum n Indonesian:apiun (id) ,candu (id) ,madat (id) Irish:óipiam Italian:oppio (it) m Japanese:鴉片 (ja) ( あへん, ahen ) ,阿片 (ja) ( あへん, ahen ) ,オピウム ( opiumu ) Javanese:ꦩꦢꦠ꧀ ( madat ) ,ꦕꦤ꧀ꦢꦸ ( candu ) Jeju:얘펜 ( yaepen ) Jingpho:ka-ni Kalmyk:манцн ( mantsn ) Kannada:ಅಫೀಮು (kn) ( aphīmu ) ,ಎಲೆಮದ್ದು (kn) ( elemaddu ) Kazakh:апиын ( apiyn ) Khmer:អាភៀន (km) ( ʼaaphiən ) Korean:아편 (ko) ( apyeon ) Kurdish:Northern Kurdish:afyon (ku) Kyrgyz:апийим (ky) ( apiyim ) Lao:ຝີ່ນ ( fīn ) Lithuanian:opijus m ,opiumas Lü:ᦚᦲᧃᧈ ( ḟiin¹ ) Macedonian:опиум m ( opium ) Malay:candu (ms) n ,candu (ms) Malayalam:കറുപ്പ് (ml) ( kaṟuppŭ ) ,അവീൻ (ml) ( avīṉ ) Manchu:ᠶᠠᡵᠰᡳ ( yarsi ) Maori:opiuma Maranao:ampiyon ,apiyon ,apiyom Mon:ဘိၚ် ( phìn ) ,ဘိၚ် ( phòiŋ ) Mongolian:опиум ( opium ) ,мансууруулагч ( mansuuruulagč ) Nepali:अफिम (ne) ( aphim ) Newar:अफिम ( aphima ) Norwegian:Bokmål:opium (no) m or n Nynorsk:opium m or n Occitan:opiom m Odia:please add this translation if you can Pashto:اپيم (ps) ( apim ) ,اپين (ps) ( apin ) Persian:افیون (fa) ( afyun ) Polish:opium (pl) n Portuguese:ópio (pt) Punjabi:ਅਫੀਮ ( aphīm ) Romanian:opiu (ro) n Russian:о́пий (ru) m ( ópij ) ,о́пиум (ru) m ( ópium ) Sanskrit:अहिफेन (sa) ( ahiphena ) Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic:о̀пијӯм m Roman:òpijūm (sh) m Shan:ၽိင်း ( phíng ) ,ၽိၼ် ( phǐn ) Sicilian:loppiu (scn) m Sindhi:आफ़ीम ( āfīma ) Sinhalese:අබිං ( abiṁ ) ,කංසා (si) ( kaṁsā ) ,මාඩා ( māḍā ) Slovak:ópium n Spanish:opio (es) m ,anfión (es) m Swahili:afyuni (sw) Swedish:opium (sv) n Tagalog:opyum ,opyo ,apyan ,ampiyon Tajik:афюн ( afyun ) Tamil:அபினி (ta) ( apiṉi ) ,அபின் (ta) ( apiṉ ) Telugu:నల్లమందు (te) ( nallamandu ) ,అభిని (te) ( abhini ) Thai:ฝิ่น (th) ( fìn ) Tulu:ಅಫೀಮು ( aphīmu ) ,ಅಫೀನಿ ( aphīni ) Turkish:afyon (tr) Ukrainian:о́пій m ( ópij ) ,о́піум m ( ópium ) Urdu:افیون ( afyūn ) Uzbek:afyun (uz) Vietnamese:thuốc phiện (vi) ,á phiện (vi) Waray-Waray:opyo Welsh:opiwm m
anything that numbs or stupefies
^ Szigetvári, Peter ;Lindsey, Geoff (2013–2022 ), “opium ”, inCurrent British English: searchable transcriptions (CUBE) [1] ^ Walker, John (1791 ), “Opium ”, inA Critical Pronouncing Dictionary [ …] ,London : G. G. J. andJ. Robinſon [ …] and T.Cadell ,→OCLC ,page369 . ^ Michaelis, Hermann;Jones, Daniel (1913 ), “'oupjəm”, inA Phonetic Dictionary of the English Language (Sammlung Phonetischer Wörterbücher; 2)[2] ,Hanover : Carl Meyer (Gustav Prior),→OCLC ,page308 . opium n
opium Declension ofopium (semisoft neuter foreign )
ViaLatin opium , fromAncient Greek ὄπιον ( ópion ) .
opium n or c
opium ( by extension ) activity that isstimulating andexiting FromMiddle Dutch opium , fromLatin opium , fromAncient Greek ὄπιον ( ópion ) , fromὀπός ( opós ) .
IPA (key ) : /ˈoː.pi.ʏm/ Hyphenation:opi‧um opium n or m (uncountable ,nodiminutive )
opium Synonym: amfioen Thisetymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
opium m (plural opiums )
opium FromDutch opium , fromMiddle Dutch opium , fromLatin opium , fromAncient Greek ὄπιον ( ópion ) .Doublet ofapiun .
opium (plural opium -opium )
opium : 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 papaverineSynonyms: apiun ,candu ,madat Borrowed fromAncient Greek ὄπιον ( ópion ) , fromὀπός ( opós ,“ juice of a plant ” ) , fromProto-Indo-European *sokʷos ( “ juice, resin ” ) .
opium n (genitive opiī or opī ) ;second declension
opium ,poppy -juice2021 June 11, rozalinda (uploader), chapter 111111, inScribd , contains some Latin and Albanian translations:Multa venēna ut coffēinum,opium , morphīnum sunt remedia. Many poisons like caffeine,opium and morphine are remedies. Second-declension noun (neuter).
1 Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
“opium ”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879 ),A Latin Dictionary , Oxford: Clarendon Press “opium ”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934 ),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français , Hachette. FromLatin opium , fromAncient Greek ὄπιον ( ópion ) .
opium m (definite singular opiumen ,uncountable )
opium “opium” inThe Bokmål Dictionary .“opium” inDet Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB ).FromLatin opium , fromAncient Greek ὄπιον ( ópion ) .
opium n or m (definite singular opiumet or opiumen ,uncountable )
opium opium n (uncountable )
alternative form ofopiu opium c
opium ( a drug ) Religionen är ettopium för folket. Religion is the opium of the people. (Karl Marx)