1967 July 9, Lawrence Fellows, “East Africa Turns On With Khat”, inThe New York Times[1],→ISSN:
They are chewing onkhat, a small serrated, bitter leaf with remarkable stimulative properties.[…] One of the great things aboutkhat[…] 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 boldness and physical initiative.
Of course he was an amateur ofquat – hashish – which delighted the cops.
2004,Khushwant Singh,Burial at Sea, Penguin, published2014, page25:
‘And skinny Arab beggars who chewqat all day long to kill their appetites and get high on the weed.’
2011 May 24, Jay Bahadur, “Somali pirate: 'We're not murderers… we just attack ships'”, inthe Guardian[2]:
Habitually munching on narcotic leaves ofkhat, they are easy enough to spot, their gleaming Toyota four-wheel-drives slicing paths around beaten-up wheelbarrows and pushcarts.
“khat”, inKielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][4] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki:Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland),2004–, retrieved2 July 2023
