Etymology

chott

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Today it means: A dry salt lake, in the Saharan area of Africa, that stays dry in the summer but receives some water in the winter. Full definition →

French chott ← Arabic شَطّ
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The story

  1. Arabic · derived fromشَطّ
  2. French · borrowed fromchott
  3. English todaychott

Borrowed from French chott, from Arabic شَطّ (šaṭṭ). Some of the alternative forms/synonyms (shatt, shat) derive directly from Arabic.

Words from the same roots

Arabicشَطّ all →

shatshatt

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.