# قات
## Arabic
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /qaːt/

### Noun

قَات • (qāt) m
* khat (Catha edulis)

#### Descendants

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

## 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)
* coat, layer, a single thickness of some material covering a surface
    Synonym: تبقه (tabaka)
* fold, an act of bending a material over so that it comes in contact with itself
    Synonym: بوكلوم (büklüm)
* (sewing) pleat, a fold in the fabric of a garment as a part of its design
* (architecture) storey, deck, a floor or level of a building or ship

### Adverb

قات • (kat)
* in layers, coats
* in several storeys
* 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, Vienna: F. Beck, page 348b
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قات”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, 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, 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, Vienna, columns 3571–3572
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kat”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قات”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1408

## Uyghur
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /qɑt/

### Noun

قات • (qat) (plural قاتلار (qatlar))
* layer, tier
* lining

### References

* ↑ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kat”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 593
* ↑ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kat”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

### 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