shatt
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Arabic شَطّ (šaṭṭ); see chott; for the spelling, compare Shatt al-Arab.
Noun
[edit]shatt (plural shatts)
- Alternative form of chott
- 1956, William Chambers, Robert Chambers, Chambers's Journal:
- [...] far greater than was originally supposed, and that a great deal of the water finds its way to the 'shatts' where it oozes to the surface and evaporates.
- 2005, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, →ISBN, page 239:
- […] On the south the shatts adjoin the Sahara, which constitutes about 40 percent of Tunisia's land area.