khatn.
/kat/ A shrub, Catha edulis, family Celastraceæ, a native of Arabia, where it is extensively cultivated for its leaves, which have properties similar to those of tea and coffee; the narcotic drug obtained from the leaves of this plant. Also attributive.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > [noun] > a) narcotic drug(s) > miscellaneous narcotic drugs from plants
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > tea-plant > [noun] > types of
herb of Paraguay1672
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Canada tea1817
yerba-maté1818
honey bush1840
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Hottentot tea1850
kaffir tea1850
khat1858
Brazil tea1866
Mexican tea1866
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redbush1946
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1858 Penny Cycl. 2nd Suppl. 107/1 C[atha] edulis is the Kat or Khât of the Arabs.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 239 The use of Kât in Arabia is said..to have preceded that of coffee.
1877 Encycl. Brit. VI. 110/2 In Arabia the beverage [sc. coffee]..only supplanted a preparation from the leaves of the cat, Celastrus edulis.
1904 U.S. Consular Rep. No. 285. 549 The cat is a plant containing a medicinal principle which acts as a tonic upon the muscles of the heart.
1932 E. Waugh Black Mischief iv. 119 Mahmud el Khali bin Sai'ud..sat among his kinsmen, moodily browsing over his lapful of khat.
1934 D. Thomas Let. 15 Apr. in Sel. Lett. (1966) 103 If I..could see them as a Yucatan people, call them to a cat-drinking ceremony.
1958 Times 16 May 7/2 Lifting the ban on the importation into Aden Colony of qat, the narcotic leaf, was recommended by the qat commission of enquiry.
1960 A. Waugh Foxglove Saga vi. 107 The standard British Pig, the very mention of whose name was said to make distant sheikhs and rebellious tribesmen in savage areas of the Empire drop their weapons and chew khat with a renewed vigour.
1963 Times 12 Mar. 12/7 Qat-chewing is not designed for the promotion of conversation.
1966 ‘S. Harvester’ Treacherous Road xi. 104 Ledgers and records..gave details of his exports of coffee, qat, fruit.
1968 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 17 Dec. 5/2 A new product..is chewing gum containing..‘Quatt’, a mild narcotic produced from the tender leaves of a tea-like bush growing in profusion throughout the Middle East.
1969 B. Verdcourt & E. C. Trump Common Poisonous Plants E. Afr. 98 Khat is a narcotic drug well-known to Arabs and Somalis.
1969 B. Verdcourt & E. C. Trump Common Poisonous Plants E. Afr. 98 If khat-eating is accepted as less harmful than some have supposed, then a very profitable native local industry could be properly controlled.
1971 Times 6 Jan. 12/5 A large ball of green leaves is formed in the cheek which makes qat chewers looks [sic] as though they are perpetually sucking gobstoppers.
1978 Guardian Weekly 17 Sept. 9/1 Normally, the day's qat session begins in the afternoon but during Ramadan it is chewed through most of the night.
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