Meanings
shatt1
nounshatt (plural shatts)
plural shatts
- alternativeAlternative form of chott.
[…] On the south the shatts adjoin the Sahara, which constitutes about 40 percent of Tunisia's land area.
2005, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, →ISBN, page 2391 more example
[...] 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.
1956, William Chambers, Robert Chambers, Chambers's Journal
Shatt2
proper noun
- A Nilo-Saharan language spoken in Sudan.
Origin
- Arabicشَطّ
- Englishshatt
From Arabic شَطّ (šaṭṭ); see chott; for the spelling, compare Shatt al-Arab.
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APA
shatt. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shatt
MLA
“shatt.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shatt. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “shatt,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shatt.
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