قات

See also: قاب

Arabic

Etymology

From قَتَّ (qatta, “to cut lengthwise”) with the classical قَتّ (qatt, “lucerne”).

Noun

قَات • (qāt) m

khat (Catha edulis)

Descendants

→ English: khat, gat, kat, qat, qhat, quat, tschat
→ Finnish: khat, kati, katpensas, khatpensas

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)

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.[1][2] Cognates with Turkish kat.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /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

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