noun
khat
Khat (noun) means 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.
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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.
"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."
— Jay Bahadur, Somali pirate: 'We're not murderers… we just attack ships' (2011)
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Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic قَات (qāt).
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What is the meaning of khat?
"khat" (noun) means 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.
What is another word for khat?
Other words for "khat" include quat, cat, qat, kat.
