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atta en · X · etymology 1

Etymology

Probably from that's a with heavy simplification.

Meanings

1. (contraction) that's the; that's a

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Deriveds

attaboy · atta girl · atta boy · attagal · atta dog · attadog · attagirl

atta en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

From Hindi आटा (āṭā, “flour, farina, dough”).

Meanings

1. (India, countable, uncountable) A type of wholegrain flour from the Indian subcontinent.
   • Kabutri, in the meanwhile, had kneaded some atta and rolled out a few real rotis. 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin, published 2015, page 7:
   • The little bits of atta on her hands turned the water a milky white and that was all she could offer to her children’s hunger. 2020, Shruti Swamy, A House Is a Body: Stories, Algonquin Books:

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