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Regressively assimilated respectively progressively dissimilated in voicedness from dialectal variants قَدَاد(qadād), قَتَات(qatāt), also قَدِيد(qadīd), قَتِيت(qatīt), from قَدَّ(qadda), قَتَّ(qatta, “to snithe into strips, to cut lengthwise”) – the former more known, the latter however reflected in قَتّ(qatt, “lucerne”) and قَات(qāt, “qat”) –, as cutting, slitting is what one does with the milk-vetches, whose profusion of sap was also the motive for the derivation of كَثِيرَاء(kaṯīrāʔ, “tragacanth, gum of milk-vetches”).
Freytag, Georg (1835) “قتاد”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 396
Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “قتاد”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1000
