khat

• gat, kat, qat, qhat, quat, tschat

From Arabic قَات (qāt).

• IPA^(key): /kɑːt/, /kat/, /kæt/
• Rhymes: -ɑːt
• Rhymes: -æt

khat (countable and uncountable, plural khats)

1. A shrub, Catha edulis, whose leaves are used as a mild stimulant when chewed or brewed as tea; also a drug produced from this plant.

   Synonym: miraa

   • 1967 July 9, Lawrence Fellows, “East Africa Turns On With Khat”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     They are chewing on khat, a small serrated, bitter leaf with remarkable stimulative properties. […] One of the great things about khat […] is that after a good chew you need to do something—walking, running, chopping wood, vigorously reciting a poem, throwing a grenade, anything that requires boldness and physical initiative.

   • 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 31:

     Of course he was an amateur of quat – hashish – which delighted the cops.

   • 2004, Khushwant Singh, Burial at Sea, Penguin, published 2014, page 25:

     ‘And skinny Arab beggars who chew qat all day long to kill their appetites and get high on the weed.’

   • 2011 May 24, Jay Bahadur, “Somali pirate: 'We're not murderers… we just attack ships'”, in the Guardian‎:

     Habitually munching on narcotic leaves of khat, they are easy enough to spot, their gleaming Toyota four-wheel-drives slicing paths around beaten-up wheelbarrows and pushcarts.

• khat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Kath, takh

Learned borrowing from Arabic قَات (qāt).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑt/, [ˈkɑ̝t̪]
• IPA^(key): /ˈkhɑt/, [ˈkhɑ̝t̪]
• Rhymes: -ɑt
• Syllabification^(key): khat

khat

1. khat (plant)
2. khat (drug)

• (plant): kati, katpensas, khatpensas

• “khat”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

• qat

• IPA^(key): /kat/

khat m (plural khats)

1. khat; qat

• IPA^(key): /ˈkat/
• Rhymes: -at
• Hyphenation: khàt

khat m (invariable)

1. Alternative form of chat (“khat”)

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *khat, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kat.

khat

1. one

• Matu (Chin) Dictionary by Ropna Saruum, Matupi 2007

khat m (plural khats)

1. khat (Catha edulis, a shrub of eastern Africa and Arabia, used as a drug)

khat c

1. Alternative form of kat (“khat”)

• khat in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• khat in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *khat, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kat.

khat

1. one

• Zomi Ordbog based on the work of D.L. Haokip

• IPA^(key): /kʰat˧˩/

khàt

1. Alternative form of khet (“one”)

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 55