Noun: rizla
| Singular | rizla |
| Plural | rizlas |
Sample Sentences
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Now I was standing in the corner / I'm searching for my rizla / I had some marijuana / I needed to get higher [1992, “Searching for my Rizla”, performed by Ratpack & Freestylers:]
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A slight breeze picked up, sending a few loose rizlas skimming along the sand. [1997, Alex Garland, The Beach:]
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Answers on the back of a rizla paper to the usual address. [1998, Martin C. Strong, The Great Rock Discography:]
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At the front of the classroom the cadaver of a singer is laid out on a workbench cluttered with Bunsen burners, rizlas, vinyl. [2005, Matthew Fuller, Media ecologies: materialist energies in art and technoculture:]
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Dionne herself is thinly drawn, a cool girl carrying tarot cards, a Rizla-rolling version of the manic pixie dream girl, tasked with redeeming the hero. [2026 April 28, Shahidha Bari, “Having Spent Life Seeking by Kae Tempest review – painfully earnest tale of trauma and transition”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:]
Nouns inflected like rizla
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From the Rizla+ brand of rolling papers, coined in 1886 from French riz (“rice”) and Lacroix, referring to the use of rice paper and the inventor's family name. See: French Nouns '
riz'.