قات

See also: قاب

Arabic

Etymology

From قَتَّ (qatta, “to cut lengthwise”), by the same token as قَتّ (qatt, “lucerne”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /qaːt/

Noun

قَات • (qāt) m

1. khat (Catha edulis)

Descendants

• → Amharic: ጫት (č̣at)
• → English: khat, gat, kat, qat, qhat, quat, tschat
• → Finnish: khat, kati, katpensas, khatpensas
• → Hebrew: קאת

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kat (“layer”); cognate with Azerbaijani qat, Bashkir ҡат (qat), Crimean Tatar qat, Kazakh қат (qat), Kyrgyz кат (kat), Turkmen gat, Uyghur قات (qat) and Uzbek qat.

Noun

قات • (kat)

1. coat, layer, a single thickness of some material covering a surface

   Synonym: تبقه (tabaka)

2. fold, an act of bending a material over so that it comes in contact with itself

   Synonym: بوكلوم (büklüm)

3. (sewing) pleat, a fold in the fabric of a garment as a part of its design
4. (architecture) storey, deck, a floor or level of a building or ship

Adverb

قات • (kat)

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

Derived terms

• قاتسز (katsız, “without folds or creases”)
• قاتلاشمق (katlaşmak, “to become doubled and folded”)
• قاتلامق (katlamak, “to fold, pleat”)
• قاتلانمق (katlanmak, “to bend; to double up”)
• قاتله (katla, “over and over again”)
• قاتلو (katlı, “folded; pleated”)
• یر قاتی (yer katı, “ground floor”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: kat
• → Albanian: kat
• → Armenian: խաթ (xatʻ), ղաթ (ġatʻ), կաթ (katʻ)
• → Laz: კატი (ǩaťi)
• → Macedonian: кат (kat)
• → Northern Kurdish: qat
• → Romanian: cat

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kat2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2465
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قات”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 348b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قات”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 920
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Plica”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1308
• 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^[4], Vienna, columns 3571–3572
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kat”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قات”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1408

Uyghur

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kat. Cognates with Turkish kat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /qɑt/

Noun

قات • (qat) (plural قاتلار (qatlar))

1. layer, tier
2. lining

Further reading

• Schwarz, Henry G. (1992) An Uyghur-English Dictionary (East Asian Research Aids & Translations; 3), Bellingham, Washington: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, →ISBN