🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

charas

Pronunciation / Transliteration: charas

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Charas/ˈtʃɑːrəs/
nounCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #85000 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"Il charas viene prodotto raccogliendo la resina a mano."

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As noun
  1. 1

    A handmade form of cannabis concentrate produced in the Indian subcontinent by rubbing live cannabis flowers between the palms.

    "Traditionally, charas is smoked using a clay chillum during spiritual gatherings."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term is borrowed from Hindi and Urdu 'charas' (चरस / چرس), ultimately derived from indigenous South Asian languages. Historically used in the Indian subcontinent to denote hand-collected cannabis resin, the word entered Western lexicon through travel literature and anthropological texts in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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