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kirta

kirta noun: a floating island on Lake Chad.

Noun

kirta (plural kirtas)

  1. A floating island on Lake Chad.
    • The kirtas were very numerous … until 1967 … These islands disappeared fairly quickly when the average level of the lake decreased below 282 m.1983, Andre Iltis, Jacques Lemoalle, The Aquatic Vegetation of Lake Chad, in Lake Chad: Ecology and Productivity of a Shallow Tropical Ecosystem (edited by Cannouze, Durand and Leveque)
    • From up there [satellites], the immense masses of vegetation that you see seem like solid ground, but instead they are all kirta, the floating islands.2004, Caterine Batello, Marzio Marzot, Adamou Touré, Peter Kenmore, The Future is an Ancient Lake

Forms of kirta

pluralkirtas

Origin of kirta

From or related to Kanuri kə́rtá (“floating island”).

Questions about kirta

What does kirta mean?
Kirta means a floating island on Lake Chad.
What part of speech is kirta?
Kirta is a noun.
What is the plural of kirta?
The plural of kirta is kirtas.

Words near kirta in the dictionary

  1. Kirstie
  2. Kirstin
  3. Kirsts
  4. Kirsty
  5. Kirstyn
  6. kirta
  7. kirtan
  8. kirtankar
  9. kirtankars
  10. kirtans
  11. kirtas

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