Editing Khat (section)

==Nomenclature==
The [[botanical name|genus name]] ''Catha'' is a Latinization of the Arabic name قات, which is regularly [[Romanization of Arabic|romanized]] as ''qāt''.  Other romanizations include ''kat'', ''quatt'', ''qaad'', ''qhat'', ''ghat'', and ''chat''.<ref>''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'', 1st edition, 1901 [https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/102615 ''s.v.'']</ref><ref name="Tooea">{{cite book|last=Dickens |first=Charles |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EdUnAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA176 |chapter=The Orsons of East Africa |title=Household Words: A Weekly Journal, Volume 14 |year=1856 |orig-year=Digitized 19 February 2010 |page=176 |access-date=9 January 2014 |publisher=Bradbury & Evans}} {{open access}} {{link note|note=Free eBook}}</ref>

The khat plant is known by a variety of names, such as ''qat'' and ''gat'' in [[Yemeni]] Arabic, ''qaat'' and ''jaad'' in [[Somali language|Somali]], and ''chat'' in [[Harari language|Harari]]<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Hill |first1=Bob |title=Č̣at (Catha edulis Forsk) |journal=Journal of Ethiopian Studies |date=11 March 1965 |volume=3 |issue=2 |pages=13–23 |publisher=Institute of Ethiopian Studies |jstor=41965724 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41965724}}</ref> and [[Amharic]].<ref name="Kciy" /> It is also known as ''jimaa'' in the [[Oromo language]], ''mayirungi'' in [[Luganda]], and as ''miraa'' and ''muguka'' in [[Swahili language|Swahili]]. In the [[African Great Lakes region]], where ''Catha edulis'' is (in some areas) cultivated, it is known as ''miraa'', ''muhulo'', ''muguka'' and ''muirungi''.<ref name="GRIN">{{GRIN | access-date = 10 December 2017}}</ref><ref name="encyclopedia">{{cite book|last=Rätsch|first=Christian|title=The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications|year=2004|publisher=Park Street Press, U.S.|isbn=978-0-89281-978-2}}</ref>

It also goes by various descriptive names, such as ''Abyssinian tea'', ''Arabian tea'', ''kafta'', ''jimaa'', and ''Somalian tea'' in its endemic regions of the Horn of Africa and the Arabian peninsula.<ref name="Tooea"/><ref name=AlZarouni>{{cite book|last=Al Zarouni|first=Yousif|title=The Effects of Khat (Catha Edulis)|year=2015|publisher=Yousif Al Zarouni|location=London|isbn=978-1-326-24867-3|edition=First}}</ref>{{rp|4–5}}<ref name="Adfkf">{{cite web|title=Khat facts|url=http://www.druginfo.adf.org.au/drug-facts/khat|publisher=ADF|access-date=14 May 2013|archive-date=3 April 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140403070501/http://www.druginfo.adf.org.au/drug-facts/khat|url-status=dead}}</ref> In South Africa, the plant is known as ''Bushman's tea''.<ref name="dwaf">{{cite web|url=http://www2.dwaf.gov.za/dwaf/cmsdocs/4116___poster%20protected%20trees.pdf |title=Protected Trees |date=3 May 2013 |publisher=Department of Water Affairs and Forestry, Republic of South Africa |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100705085122/http://www2.dwaf.gov.za/dwaf/cmsdocs/4116___poster%20protected%20trees.pdf |archive-date= 5 July 2010 }}</ref> The plant is also known as ''chat tree'' and ''flower of paradise''.<ref name="encyclopedia"/>