Khat, the red-stemmed, green-leafed plant that is chewed for its amphetamine-like properties, is grown in Kenya and Ethiopia but is very popular in Somalia, Djibouti and Yemen.
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Khat
//kɑːt//
Synonyms for "khat" (10 found)
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Noun(2 words)
Strong matches (3)
Noun(2 words)
Related words (5)
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Translations
52 translations across 41 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- boesmanstee noun (Catha edulis)
Amharic
1 entries- ጫት noun (Catha edulis)
Arabic
1 entries- قات noun (Catha edulis)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 巧茶 noun (Catha edulis)
Czech
1 entries- kata jedlá noun (Catha edulis)
Danish
2 entries- kat noun (Catha edulis)
- khat noun (Catha edulis)
Dutch
1 entries- qat noun (Catha edulis)
Esperanto
1 entries- ĉato noun (Catha edulis)
Estonian
1 entries- katapõõsas noun (Catha edulis)
Finnish
4 entries- kati noun (Catha edulis)
- katpensas noun (Catha edulis)
- khat noun (Catha edulis)
- khatpensas noun (Catha edulis)
French
2 entries- khat noun (Catha edulis)
- qat noun (Catha edulis)
Galician
1 entries- qat noun (Catha edulis)
Georgian
1 entries- კათი noun (Catha edulis)
German
2 entries- Kat noun (drug)
- Kathstrauch noun (Catha edulis)
Hebrew
1 entries- קאת noun (Catha edulis)
Hungarian
1 entries- kat noun (Catha edulis)
Icelandic
1 entries- khat noun (Catha edulis)
Indonesian
1 entries- qat noun (Catha edulis)
Irish
1 entries- cait noun (Catha edulis)
Japanese
3 entries- アラビアチャノキ noun (Catha edulis)
- カート noun (Catha edulis)
- チャット noun (Catha edulis)
Javanese
1 entries- khat noun (Catha edulis)
Korean
1 entries- 까트 noun (Catha edulis)
Latvian
1 entries- katas koks noun (Catha edulis)
Lithuanian
1 entries- arabinis dusūnas noun (Catha edulis)
Malay
1 entries- qat noun (Catha edulis)
Norwegian
1 entries- khat noun (Catha edulis)
Pashto
1 entries- قات noun (Catha edulis)
Persian
1 entries- قات noun (Catha edulis)
Polish
1 entries- czuwaliczka jadalna noun (Catha edulis)
Portuguese
1 entries- khat noun (Catha edulis)
Russian
1 entries- кат noun (Catha edulis)
Sinhalese
1 entries- කාට් noun (Catha edulis)
Somali
2 entries- jaad noun (Catha edulis)
- qaad noun (Catha edulis)
Swahili
1 entries- miraa noun (Catha edulis)
Swedish
2 entries- kat noun (Catha edulis)
- kat noun (drug)
Thai
2 entries- คัต noun (Catha edulis)
- แกต noun (Catha edulis)
Turkish
1 entries- gat noun (Catha edulis)
Ukrainian
1 entries- кат noun (Catha edulis)
Urdu
1 entries- قات noun (Catha edulis)
Vietnamese
1 entries- lá khát noun (Catha edulis)
Zulu
1 entries- umhlwazi noun (Catha edulis)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
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.
Source: wiktionary
Of course he was an amateur of quat – hashish – which delighted the cops.
Source: wiktionary
‘And skinny Arab beggars who chew qat all day long to kill their appetites and get high on the weed.’
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