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shatt

shatt is the alternative form of chott.

Meaning of chott

Noun

chott (plural chotts)

  1. A dry salt lake, in the Saharan area of Africa, that stays dry in the summer but receives some water in the winter.
    Synonyms:
    sabkha

Forms of shatt

pluralshatts

Origin of shatt

From Arabic شَطّ (šaṭṭ); see chott; for the spelling, compare Shatt al-Arab.

Phrases with shatt

Questions about shatt

What is shatt the alternative form of?
Shatt is the alternative form of chott.

Words near shatt in the dictionary

  1. shatooshes
  2. shatposted
  3. shatranj
  4. Shatrughna
  5. shats
  6. shatt
  7. Shatt al-Arab
  8. Shatt-al-Arab
  9. shatter
  10. shatter attack
  11. shatter attacks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shatt (page history and authors); chott (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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