释义 |
‖ majoon|məˈdʒuːn| Also 8 majum, 9 majun, madjoon, -oun. [(Urdū and Turk.) a. Arab. maﻋjūn.] An intoxicating confection made of the leaves of the Indian hemp, poppyseed, nux vomica, and other ingredients.
1781Let. in Ld. Lindsay Lives Lindsays (1840) IV. 222 Our ill-favoured guard brought us a dose of majum each, and obliged us to eat it. 1819T. Hope Anast. (1820) I. xi. 216 The ample dose of madjoon he had just swallowed. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Majoon. 1883H. H. Kane in Harper's Mag. Nov. 946/1 Small black lozenges, consisting of the resin of hemp, henbane, crushed datura seeds, butter, and honey, and known in India as Majoon, amongst the Moors as El Mogen. |