khat
See also: khát
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Arabic قَات (qāt).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɒt
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.
- 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:
Synonyms
Translations
shrub (Catha edulis)
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Anagrams
Finnish
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
French
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
khat m (plural khats)
Italian
Pronunciation
Noun
khat m (uncountable) (Variant of: chat)
Portuguese
Noun
khat m (plural s)
- khat (Catha edulis, a shrub of eastern Africa and Arabia, used as a drug)
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- Rhymes:English/ɒt
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- English nouns
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