different between yage vs ayahuasca

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?j??he?/

Noun

yage (uncountable)

1. Ayahuasca.
   • 1953, William S. Burroughs, in Harris (ed.), Letters 1945–59, Penguin 2009, p. 155:

     A large dose of Yage is sheer horror. I was completely delirious for four hours and vomiting at 10 minute intervals.

Anagrams

• Gaye

English

Etymology

From Spanish ayahuasca, from Quechua ayawaska, from aya (“spirit, ancestor”) + waska (“vine”).

Noun

ayahuasca (uncountable)

1. A giant vine native to South America (especially Banisteriopsis caapi), noted for its psychotropic properties.
   • 2005, the Amazon forest people would take ayahuasca and enter into that place of Group Mind where they would make decisions for the tribe — Martin Torgoff, Can’t Find My Way Home (Simon & Schuster 2005, p. 414)
2. Any of various psychoactive infusions or decoctions prepared from this vine.

Synonyms

• Iowaska
• yage
• yaje

Translations

French

Noun

ayahuasca m (uncountable)

1. ayahuasca

Portuguese

Noun

ayahuasca f (plural ayahuascas)

1. ayahuasca (Banisteriopsis caapi, a vine of South America)

   Synonym: iagê

2. ayahuasca (psychoactive infusion made from the ayahuasca vine)

   Synonym: daime

Spanish

Etymology

From Quechua ayawaska.

Pronunciation

Noun

ayahuasca f (plural ayahuascas)

1. ayahuasca
2. a psychotropic concoction prepared from said vine

Derived terms

• ayahuasquero

Descendants

• ? English: ayahuasca

Further reading

• “ayahuasca” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.