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Ghat vs Khat - What's the difference?

ghat | khat |

As a noun ghat

is (india) a descending path or stairway to a river; a ford or landing-place.

As an adjective khat is

thirsty (needing to drink).

ghat

English

Alternative forms

* ghaut

Noun

(en noun)
  • (India) A descending path or stairway to a river; a ford or landing-place.
  • *2008 , Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger , Atlantic 2009, p. 16:
  • *:Chunks of wood were being built into funeral pyres on the steps of the ghat'' that went down into the water; four bodies were burning on the ''ghat steps when we got there.
  • (India) A mountain range.
  • (India) A mountain pass.
  • (India) A burning-ghat.

    • khat

    English

    (wikipedia khat)

    Alternative forms

    * gat, kat, qat, quat, tschat

    Noun

  • A shrub 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.
  • * 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.

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