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tschat

tschat is the alternative spelling of khat.

Meaning of khat

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.
    • They are chewing on khat, a small serrated, bitter leaf with remarkable stimulative properties. […] One of the great things about khat[…] is that after a good chew you need to do something—walking, running, chopping wood, vigorously reciting a poem, throwing a grenade, anything that requires...1967 July 9, Lawrence Fellows, “East Africa Turns On With Khat”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
    Synonyms:
    Bushman's tea, miraa

Questions about tschat

What is tschat the alternative spelling of?
Tschat is the alternative spelling of khat.

Words near tschat in the dictionary

  1. Tschaikovski
  2. Tschaikovsky
  3. Tschaikowski
  4. Tschaikowsky
  5. Tschantz
  6. tschat
  7. tscheffkinite
  8. tscheffkinites
  9. tschego
  10. tschegos
  11. tschermakite

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tschat (page history and authors); khat (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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