# kif
## Translingual
### Symbol

kif
* (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Eastern Parbate Kham.

### See also

* Wiktionary's coverage of Eastern Parbate Kham terms

## English
### Alternative forms

* kaif, keef, kef, kief

### Etymology 1

From Moroccan Arabic كيف (kīf, “opiate”), from Arabic كَيْف (kayf, “joy”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kiːf/, /kɪf/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
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* Rhymes: -iːf, -ɪf

#### Noun

kif (uncountable)
* A kind of cannabis smoked in Morocco and Algeria, for narcotic or intoxicating effect.
** 1809, James Grey Jackson, chapter VIII, in An Account of the Empire of Marocco:The kief, which is the flower and seeds of the plant, is the strongest, and a pipe of it half the size of a common English tobacco-pipe, is sufficient to intoxicate.
** 1882, Edmondo de Amicis, translated by C. Rollin-Tilton, Morocco: Its People & Places:I perceived the odour of kif, and recognised the voices of Selam the Second, Abd-el-Rhaman, and others; it was an Arab orgie in full swing.
** 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 80:The trade goods – Persian rugs, salt, muskets, kif – trailed out behind them over the dunes, still lashed to the backs of rotting animals.
** 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 54:[…] then hung around the special Silver-Key-Members’ Lounge with the other ladies […] smoking kif and making extremely delicate and oblique fun of their husbands’ sexual idiosyncrasies, […]
** 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 52:‘Some taxi driver, a Maghrebian…he suddenly swerved. They smoke kief, you know.’
** 2012, Susan Sontag, “9/5/65 Tangier, Tetouan”, in edited by David Rieff, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh, Farrar, Straus and Giroux:Kif melts the brain; dexemyl sharpens the edges. (Kif makes you drift—makes you forget what someone said a minute before–hard to follow a long story or joke, […] )
* The state of relaxed stupor induced by cannabis.
* The trichome of marijuana, a green powdery substance that falls from dry marijuana, high in THC and other cannabinoid compounds.

##### Translations
### Etymology 2
#### Adjective

kif (comparative more kif, superlative most kif)
* Alternative form of kiff

## Azerbaijani
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kebü (“rot, dandruff”); cognate with Crimean Tatar küf, Karakhanid [script needed] (küviǯ), Kipchak [script needed] (küf) and Turkish küf.

#### Noun

kif (definite accusative kifi, plural kiflər)
* mold (woolly or furry growth of tiny fungi)
    kif bağlamaq ― to mold, to become moldy
* (archaic) syphilis
    Synonym: sifilis

### Etymology 2

From Persian کیف (kif).

#### Noun

kif (definite accusative kifi, plural kiflər)
* (South Azerbaijani) handbag
    Synonyms: çanta, sumka

### Declension
## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Moroccan Arabic كيف (kīf), from Arabic كَيْف (kayf, “opiate”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kif/

### Noun

kif m (uncountable)
* kif

#### Derived terms

* kiffer

### Further reading

* “kif”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Maltese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kiːf/

### Etymology 1

From Arabic كَيْفَ (kayfa). Compare Moroccan Arabic كيف (kīf).

#### Adverb

kif
* (interrogative) how
* as soon as
** 1966, Anton Buttigieg, “Agnes”, in Ejjew Nidħku Ftit Ieħor:Miexja fil-funeral ta’ kuġintha mart it-tabib, li mietet fl-aħjar tagħha; u f’moħħha ħsieb għaddej li t-tabib jista’ kif jgħaddi ftit taż-żmien, jitgħarras magħha.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* as

### Etymology 2

From Arabic كَيْف (kayf).

#### Noun

kif m
* manner, how