different between kyat vs khat

English

Etymology

From Burmese ???? (kyap).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ki????t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ki?(j)?t/, /?kj?t/, /?t??t/
• Rhymes: -??t

Noun

kyat (plural kyats or kyat)

1. The official currency of Myanmar.

Translations

Anagrams

• Katy, Tayk

Hausa

Etymology

From English cake.

Noun

kyât m

1. cake

   Synonym: (Niger) gato

Portuguese

Etymology

From Burmese ???? (kyap).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ki?at??i/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?kjat(?)/

Noun

kyat m (plural kyats)

1. kyat (currency of Myanmar)

English

Alternative forms

• gat, kat, qat, quat, tschat

Etymology

From Arabic ????? (q?t).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

khat (countable and uncountable, plural khats)

1. A shrub, Catha edulis, whose leaves are used as a mild stimulant when chewed or brewed as tea; also a drug produced from this plant.
   • 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 31:

     Of course he was an amateur of quat – hashish – which delighted the cops.

   • 2004, Khushwant Singh, Burial at Sea, Penguin 2014, p. 25:

     ‘And skinny Arab beggars who chew qat all day long to kill their appetites and get high on the weed.’

   • 2011, Jay Badahur, The Guardian, 24 May 2011:

     Habitually munching on narcotic leaves of khat, they are easy enough to spot, their gleaming Toyota four-wheel-drives slicing paths around beaten-up wheelbarrows and pushcarts.

Synonyms

• miraa

Translations

Anagrams

• Kath, takh

Finnish

Noun

khat

1. khat (plant)
2. khat (drug)

Declension

Synonyms

• (plant): kati, katpensas, khatpensas

French

Alternative forms

• qat

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kat/

Noun

khat m (plural khats)

1. khat; qat

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kat/

Noun

khat m (invariable) (Variant of: chat)

1. khat

Portuguese

Noun

khat m (plural khats)

1. khat (Catha edulis, a shrub of eastern Africa and Arabia, used as a drug)

Zou

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?at??/

Numeral

khàt

1. Alternative form of khet (“one”)

References

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 55