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• gat, kat, qat, qhat, quat, tschat

From Arabic قَات (qāt).

• IPA^(key): /kɑːt/, /kat/, /kæt/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːt, -æt
• Homophones: cat, Cat, kat

khat (countable and uncountable, plural khats)

1. 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.

   Synonyms: Bushman's tea, 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.

• Kath, takh

• (Myanmar) /kʰat˧/
• (Luxi) [kʰat⁵⁵]

khat

1. to drive (non-vehicular entities)

• Inglis, Douglas; Sampu, Nasaw; Jaseng, Wilai; Jana, Thocha (2005), A preliminary Ngochang–Kachin–English Lexicon‎^[3], Payap University, page 54

• (Sun Thla) IPA^(key): [kʰə̀t̚]

khat

1. one

• Amanda Bohnert, Emily Hanink, Em Em, Kelly Berkson (2026), “Sun Thla Falam Chin Swadesh List”, in Indiana Working Papers in South Asian Languages and Cultures‎^[4], volume 4, number 1

Learned borrowing from Arabic قَات (qāt).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑt/, [ˈkɑ̝t̪]
• IPA^(key): /ˈkhɑt/, [ˈkhɑ̝t̪]
• Rhymes: -ɑt
• Syllabification^(key): khat
• Hyphenation^(key): khat

khat

1. khat (plant)
2. khat (drug)

• (plant): kati, katpensas, khatpensas

• “khat”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[5] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

• qat

• IPA^(key): /kat/

khat m (plural khats)

1. khat; qat

Inherited from Malay khat, from Arabic خَطّ (ḵaṭṭ, “line; stroke; stripe; ridge; handwriting; calligraphy; script”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈxat/ [ˈxat̪̚]
• Rhymes: -at
• Syllabification: khat

khat (plural khat-khat)

1. line

   Synonym: garis

2. handwriting.

   Synonym: tulisan tangan

3. Arabic calligraphy

   Synonyms: seni khat, seni tulisan Arab

4. palmar crease

   Synonyms: guratan, retak tangan, garis tangan, rajah

5. tattoo

   Synonyms: tato, cacah (uncommon), kirung (specifically on body)

• “khat”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

• IPA^(key): /ˈkat/
• Rhymes: -at
• Hyphenation: khàt

khat m (invariable)

1. alternative form of chat (“khat”)

khat

1. inanimate of pakhat

khat (stem II khah)

1. full

• Lorrain, J. Herbert (1940), “khat”, in Dictionary of the Lushai language, Calcutta: Asiatic Society

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *khat, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kat.

khat

1. one

• Matu (Chin) Dictionary by Ropna Saruum, Matupi 2007

khat m (plural khats)

1. khat (Catha edulis, a shrub of eastern Africa and Arabia, used as a drug)

khat c

1. alternative form of kat (“khat”)

• “khat”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “khat”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *khat, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kat.

khat

1. one

• Zomi Ordbog based on the work of D.L. Haokip

Zou cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : khàt     Ordinal : khàtna

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *khat.

• IPA^(key): [kʰʌ̀t]
• Hyphenation: khat

khàt

1. one

• Philip Thangliènmâng (2010), Minimal dictionary and Self-tutor Functional Grammar in Zo-English-Hindi, New Delhi: Zoculsin, →ISBN, page 10
• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013), A Descriptive Grammar of Zou (PhD thesis), Canchipur: Manipur University, page 55