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See also: khát
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
khat (countable and uncountable, plural khats)
- 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.’
Translations
shrub (Catha edulis)
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Further reading
Anagrams
Finnish
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Arabic قَات (qāt).
Pronunciation
Noun
khat
- khat (plant)
- khat (drug)
Declension
| Inflection of khat (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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| nominative | khat | — | ||
| genitive | khatin | — | ||
| partitive | khatia | — | ||
| illative | khatiin | — | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | khat | — | ||
| accusative | nom. | khat | — | |
| gen. | khatin | |||
| genitive | khatin | — | ||
| partitive | khatia | — | ||
| inessive | khatissa | — | ||
| elative | khatista | — | ||
| illative | khatiin | — | ||
| adessive | khatilla | — | ||
| ablative | khatilta | — | ||
| allative | khatille | — | ||
| essive | khatina | — | ||
| translative | khatiksi | — | ||
| abessive | khatitta | — | ||
| instructive | — | — | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
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Synonyms
- (plant): kati, katpensas, khatpensas
Derived terms
compounds
Further reading
- “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
French
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
khat m (plural khats)
Italian
Pronunciation
Noun
khat m (invariable)
Nga La
Etymology
From Proto-Kuki-Chin *khat, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kat.
Numeral
khat
References
- Matu (Chin) Dictionary by Ropna Saruum, Matupi 2007
Portuguese
Noun
khat m (plural khats)
- khat (Catha edulis, a shrub of eastern Africa and Arabia, used as a drug)
Swedish
Noun
khat c
- Alternative form of kat (“khat”)
Declension
| Declension of khat | ||||
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| Indefinite | Definite | |||
| Nominative | khat | khaten | — | — |
| Genitive | khats | khatens | — | — |
References
Tedim Chin
Etymology
From Proto-Kuki-Chin *khat, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kat.
Numeral
khat
References
- Zomi Ordbog based on the work of D.L. Haokip
Zou
Pronunciation
Numeral
khàt
- Alternative form of khet (“one”)
References
- Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 55