shatt

shatt

English

Etymology

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

Noun

shatt (plural shatts)

1. Alternative form of chott
   • 1956, William Chambers, Robert Chambers, Chambers's Journal:

     [...] 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.

   • 2005, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (→ISBN), page 239:

     […] On the south the shatts adjoin the Sahara, which constitutes about 40 percent of Tunisia's land area.