قات

From قَتَّ‎ (qatta, “to cut lengthwise”) with the classical قَتّ‎ (qatt, “lucerne”).

قَات • (qāt) m

1. khat (Catha edulis)

• → English: khat, gat, kat, qat, quat, tschat
• → Finnish: khat, kati, katpensas, khatpensas

From Proto-Turkic *kat (“layer”).

قات • (kat)

1. fold, layer, coating
2. pleat, a fold in the fabric of a garment
3. a complete set of clothing
4. storey in a building, floor
5. row of stones in a wall
6. time (of repetition)

قات • (kat)

1. in layers, coats
2. in several storeys
3. time after time, repeatedly

• قاتلامق‎ (katlamak)
• قاتلی‎ (katlı)

• Turkish: kat
• → Albanian: kat
• → Armenian: խաթ (xatʿ), ղաթ (łatʿ), կաթ (katʿ)
• → Macedonian: кат (kat)
• → Northern Kurdish: qat
• → Romanian: cat

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “قات”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 3571–3572
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “قات”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1408