Arabic exports

kif

Arabic kayf, 'state, mood', came to mean pleasure and the dreamy ease of idleness. In Morocco and Algeria kīf became the name of the cannabis smoked for that feeling, and English took both senses: kef in 1808, kif in the 20th century.

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900 CEArabic

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