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Khaf vs Khat - What's the difference?

khaf | khat |

As a noun khaf

is the eleventh letter of the hebrew alphabet, kaph, especially when written without a dagesh and pronounced as a fricative (rather than as a plosive).

As an adjective khat is

thirsty (needing to drink).

khaf

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The eleventh letter of the Hebrew alphabet, kaph, especially when written without a dagesh and pronounced as a fricative (rather than as a plosive).

    • 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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