drug

Etymology 1
From, from , , from or , as in  , mistaking  for the contents, which were usually dried herbs, plants or wares. Droge comes from, from , from , ultimately from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.
 * 2) A psychoactive substance, especially one which is illegal and addictive, ingested for recreational use, such as cocaine.
 * 3) * March 1991, unknown student, "Antihero opinion", SPIN, page 70
 * You have a twelve-year-old kid being told from the time he's like five years old that all drugs are bad, they're going to screw you up, don't try them. Just say no. Then they try pot.
 * 1) Anything, such as a substance, emotion, or action, to which one is addicted.
 * 2) * 2010, Kesha Rose Sebert (Ke$ha), with Pebe Sebert and Joshua Coleman (Ammo), Your Love is My Drug
 * 3) Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand.
 * 1) * March 1991, unknown student, "Antihero opinion", SPIN, page 70
 * You have a twelve-year-old kid being told from the time he's like five years old that all drugs are bad, they're going to screw you up, don't try them. Just say no. Then they try pot.
 * 1) Anything, such as a substance, emotion, or action, to which one is addicted.
 * 2) * 2010, Kesha Rose Sebert (Ke$ha), with Pebe Sebert and Joshua Coleman (Ammo), Your Love is My Drug
 * 3) Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand.
 * 1) Anything, such as a substance, emotion, or action, to which one is addicted.
 * 2) * 2010, Kesha Rose Sebert (Ke$ha), with Pebe Sebert and Joshua Coleman (Ammo), Your Love is My Drug
 * 3) Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand.
 * 1) * 2010, Kesha Rose Sebert (Ke$ha), with Pebe Sebert and Joshua Coleman (Ammo), Your Love is My Drug
 * 2) Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand.
 * 1) Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand.
 * 1) Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand.

Collocations

 * dangerous, illicit, illegal, psychoactive, generic, hard, veterinary, recreational

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Corsican: druga
 * Danish: droge
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Irish: druga
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Maori: pūroi
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: droge
 * Nynorsk: droge
 * Ojibwe: mashkiki
 * Ottoman Turkish: علاج
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:, ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:, dawa ya famasia
 * Swedish:


 * Albanian:, , droga
 * Antillean Creole: dwòg
 * Apache:
 * Western Apache: izeeʼ dénchǫʼí
 * Arabic: مُخَدِّر
 * Armenian: ,
 * Aromanian: droagã, droaga , drogã droghe , droga
 * Azerbaijani: narkotik
 * Belarusian: нарко́тык
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: дро́га,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 麻醉品, , ,
 * Corsican: droga
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, rusmiddel, narko, narkotikum
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: drogo
 * Estonian: uimasti, narkootikum
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: ნარკოტიკი
 * German:, , ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: eiturlyf,
 * Indonesian: narkoba,
 * Irish: druga
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: еліткіш, есірткі,, наша
 * Khmer: ថ្នាំញៀន, គ្រឿងញៀន
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz: наркотик, баңгизат
 * Lao: ຢາເສບຕິດ
 * Latvian: narkotika
 * Lithuanian: narkotikas
 * Macedonian: дрога, наркотик
 * Malay: narkotik
 * Malayalam: മയക്കുമരുന്ന്
 * Maori: whakapōauau, pōau
 * Mongolian:, наркотик, мансууруулах бодис
 * Nepali:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: narkotikum.
 * Nynorsk: narkotikum
 * Occitan:
 * Pashto: مخدر
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, narcotică
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: дро́га, нарко̀тик
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: droga
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili: dawa ya kulevya
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Tagalog:
 * Tajik: мухаддир, анвои нашъа
 * Thai: ยาเสพติด
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: нарко́тик
 * Urdu: مادک, نشہ, مخدر
 * Uyghur: ناركوتىك
 * Uzbek:, tinchlantiruvchi
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: drug
 * Yiddish: נאַרקאָטיק


 * Danish:, , ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Malagasy:
 * Malay:
 * Persian:
 * Slovak:
 * Telugu:
 * Turkish:

Verb

 * 1)  To administer intoxicating drugs to, generally without the recipient's knowledge or consent.
 * 2)  To add intoxicating drugs to with the intention of drugging someone.
 * 3)  To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.
 * 1)  To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.
 * 1)  To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: дрогирам се, взимам наркотици
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:, zdrogovat se
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: לסמם
 * Ido:
 * Lithuanian: narkošintis, kaifuoti, vartoti narkotikus, sėsti ant adatos
 * Polish:, naćpać się, , szprycować, naszprycować
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: дрогирати
 * Roman:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: laittaa huumausainetta
 * Greek: βάζω ναρκωτικό
 * Italian:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:

Etymology 2
Germanic ablaut formation. If old, a doublet of, from , , , , from , from ; compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. If secondary, probably formed by analogy with.

Usage notes

 * Random House says that is "nonstandard" as the past tense of . Merriam-Webster once ruled that  in this construction was "illiterate" but have since upgraded it to "dialect". The lexicographers of New World, American Heritage, and Oxford make no mention of this sense.

Noun

 * 1)  A drudge.

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  A recreational, psychoactive substance, especially when illegal and addictive.

Etymology
..

Noun

 * 1)  friend

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) pole, stick

Etymology
, from, from.

Noun

 * 1)  friend
 * 2)  comrade (commonly used in parts of Former Yugoslavia among coworkers or friends)
 * 1)  comrade (commonly used in parts of Former Yugoslavia among coworkers or friends)

Adjective

 * 1) other, another, different