khat
See also: khát
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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[1], →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[2]:
- 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.
Translations edit
shrub (Catha edulis)
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Further reading edit
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Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Arabic قَات (qāt).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
khat
- khat (plant)
- khat (drug)
Declension edit
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 edit
- (plant): kati, katpensas, khatpensas
Derived terms edit
compounds
Further reading edit
- “khat”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][3] (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 edit
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Noun edit
khat m (plural khats)
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
khat m (invariable)
Nga La edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Kuki-Chin *khat, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kat.
Numeral edit
khat
References edit
- Matu (Chin) Dictionary by Ropna Saruum, Matupi 2007
Portuguese edit
Noun edit
khat m (plural khats)
- khat (Catha edulis, a shrub of eastern Africa and Arabia, used as a drug)
Swedish edit
Noun edit
khat c
- Alternative form of kat (“khat”)
Declension edit
Declension of khat | ||||
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Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | khat | khaten | — | — |
Genitive | khats | khatens | — | — |
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Tedim Chin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Kuki-Chin *khat, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kat.
Numeral edit
khat
References edit
- Zomi Ordbog based on the work of D.L. Haokip
Zou edit
Pronunciation edit
Numeral edit
khàt
- Alternative form of khet (“one”)
References edit
- Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 55