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gueltas

gueltas is the plural of guelta.

Meaning of guelta

Noun

guelta (plural gueltas)

  1. A pool of water, especially in Africa or Arabia, fed by an oasis (spring) or left behind when a wadi (arroyo, seasonal river) runs dry.
    • Winter or summer, the guelta never went away, even in a drought. It was fed by an underground spring that sent a constant lazy stream of bubbles to the surface.2001, David Ball, Empires of Sand: A Novel, page 376

Proper noun capitalized: Gueltas

Gueltas

  1. A village in Morbihan department, Brittany, France.

Origin of gueltas

Borrowed from French Gueltas, itself from Breton Gweltaz (“Gildas”).

Questions about gueltas

What does gueltas mean?
Gueltas means a village in Morbihan department, Brittany, France.
What is gueltas the plural of?
Gueltas is the plural of guelta.
What part of speech is gueltas?
Gueltas is a proper noun.

Words near gueltas in the dictionary

  1. Guelphic
  2. Guelphism
  3. Guelphs
  4. Guels
  5. guelta
  6. gueltas
  7. Guelwongo
  8. guemal
  9. guemals
  10. guembri
  11. guembris

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gueltas (page history and authors); Gueltas (page history and authors); guelta (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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