Word Origin Summary

Marihuana is attested in Mexican Spanish. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• marijuana

  English · borrowed from

• марихуана

  Ukrainian · derived from

• marihuwana

  Tagalog · borrowed from

• 마리후아나

  Korean · borrowed from

• marijuana

  Italian · derived from

What You Can Explore

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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root