khat
See also: khát
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
- Rhymes: -ɒt
NounEdit
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.
- 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 31:
- Of course he was an amateur of quat – hashish – which delighted the cops.
- 2004, Khushwant Singh, Burial at Sea, Penguin 2014, p. 25:
- ‘And skinny Arab beggars who chew qat all day long to kill their appetites and get high on the weed.’
- 2011, Jay Badahur, The Guardian, 24 May 2011:
- 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.
- 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 31:
SynonymsEdit
TranslationsEdit
shrub (Catha edulis)
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AnagramsEdit
FinnishEdit
NounEdit
khat
- khat (plant)
- khat (drug)
DeclensionEdit
| Inflection of khat (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| abessive | khatitta | — | |
| comitative | — | — | |
SynonymsEdit
- (plant): kati, katpensas, khatpensas
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NounEdit
khat m (plural khats)
- khat (Catha edulis, a shrub of eastern Africa and Arabia, used as a drug)