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別の表記

• gat, kat, qat, qhat, quat, tschat

語源

From Arabic قَات (qāt).

発音

• IPA: /kɑːt/, /kat/, /kæt/
• 韻: -ɑːt, -æt
• 異形同音異義語: cat, Cat, kat, cart

名詞

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, →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:

     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.

アナグラム

• Kath, takh