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{{also|Kif|KIF}}
==Translingual==

===Symbol===
{{mul-symbol}}

# {{ISO 639|3}}

===See also===
* {{langcat|kif}}

==English==
[[File:Kief (yellow).jpg|thumb|Kif in a jar.]]

===Alternative forms===
* {{l|en|kaif}}, {{l|en|keef}}, {{l|en|kef}}, {{l|en|kief}}

===Etymology 1===
From {{bor|en|ary|كيف|tr=kīf|5=[[opiate]]}}, from {{bor|en|ar|كَيْف|tr=kayf|5=[[joy]]}}.
{{root|en|ar|ك ي ف}}

====Pronunciation====
* {{IPA|en|/kiːf/|/kɪf/}}
* {{audio|en|LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-kif.wav|a=Southern England}}
* {{audio|en|LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-kif2.wav|a=Southern England}}
* {{rhymes|en|iːf|ɪf|s=1}}

====Noun====
{{en-noun|-}}

# A kind of [[cannabis]] smoked in Morocco and Algeria, for [[narcotic]] or [[intoxicating]] effect.
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1809|author=James Grey Jackson|title=An Account of the Empire of Marocco|chapter=VIII|passage=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.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1882|translator=C. Rollin-Tilton|author=Edmondo de Amicis|title=Morocco: Its People & Places|passage=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.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1982|author=w:TC Boyle|title=Water Music|publisher=Penguin|year_published=2006|page=80|passage=The trade goods – Persian rugs, salt, muskets, '''kif''' – trailed out behind them over the dunes, still lashed to the backs of rotting animals.}}
#* {{RQ:Wallace Infinite Jest|page=54|text={{...}}then hung around the special Silver-Key-Members’ Lounge with the other ladies{{...|, unwrapping her face and hair and playing Narjees and all}}smoking '''kif''' and making extremely delicate and oblique fun of their husbands’ sexual idiosyncrasies, {{...}}}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2000|author=w:JG Ballard|title=Super-Cannes|publisher=Fourth Estate|year_published=2011|page=52|passage=‘Some taxi driver, a Maghrebian…he suddenly swerved. They smoke '''kief''', you know.’}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=w:Susan Sontag|editor=David Rieff|title=As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh|year=2012|entry=9/5/65 Tangier, Tetouan|publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux|passage='''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, {{...|makes you react less to other people (one isn't “considerate,” i.e. you don't anticipate people's reactions}})}}
# 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=====
{{trans-top|Kind of cannabis}}
* German: {{t|de|Kif|m}}
* Lithuanian: {{t|lt|kaifas|m}}
* Spanish: {{t|es|quife|m}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|Trichome of marijuana}}
* German: {{t+|de|Skuff|m}}
{{trans-bottom}}

===Etymology 2===

====Adjective====
{{en-adj}}

# {{alt form of|en|kiff}}

{{topics|en|Marijuana}}

==Azerbaijani==

===Etymology 1===
{{inh+|az|trk-pro|*kebü||rot, dandruff}}; cognate with {{cog|crh|küf}}, {{cog|xqa||tr=küviǯ}}, {{cog|qwm||tr=küf}} and {{cog|tr|küf}}.

====Noun====
{{az-noun}}

# [[mold]] (woolly or furry growth of tiny fungi)
#: {{coi|az|kif bağlamaq|to mold, to become moldy}}
# {{lb|az|archaic}} [[syphilis]] {{C|az|Bacterial diseases|Sexually transmitted diseases}}
#: {{syn|az|sifilis}}

===Etymology 2===
From {{bor|az|fa|کیف|tr=kif}}.

====Noun====
{{az-noun}}

# {{lb|az|South Azerbaijani}} [[handbag]]
#: {{syn|az|çanta|sumka}}

===Declension===
{{az-decl-noun|i|c}}

==French==

===Etymology===
{{bor+|fr|ary|كيف|tr=kīf}}, from {{der|fr|ar|كَيْف||opiate}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{fr-IPA}}

===Noun===
{{fr-noun|m|-}}

# {{l|en|kif}}

====Derived terms====
* {{l|fr|kiffer}}

===Further reading===
* {{R:fr:TLFi}}

{{C|fr|Marijuana}}

==Maltese==

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|mt|/kiːf/}}

===Etymology 1===
From {{inh|mt|ar|كَيْفَ}}. Compare {{cog|ary|كيف|tr=kīf}}.

====Adverb====
{{mt-adverb}}

# {{lb|mt|interrogative}} [[how]]
# [[as soon as]]
#* {{quote-book|mt
|author=w:Anton Buttigieg
|year=1966
|title=Ejjew Nidħku Ftit Ieħor
|chapter=Agnes
|text=Miexja fil-funeral ta’ kuġintha<br/>mart it-tabib, li mietet fl-aħjar tagħha;<br/>u f’moħħha ħsieb għaddej li t-tabib jista’<br/>'''kif''' jgħaddi ftit taż-żmien, jitgħarras magħha. 
}}
# [[as]]

===Etymology 2===
From {{inh|mt|ar|كَيْف}}.

====Noun====
{{mt-noun|g=m}}

# [[manner]], [[how]]