wat
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of wat
1870–75; < Thai < Sanskrit vāṭa enclosure
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They make a spicy stew called "doro wat", which is served with injera - a traditional fermented pancake-like flatbread.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2025
While the spotlight on dishes like squash cakes and caviar and doro wat and the chefs behind them is compelling, so is the unfiltered conversation with celebrity friends, spearheaded by Teigen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 2024
The chef’s stretchy macaroni with cheese is crisp with injera crumbs and spiced like doro wat, Ethiopia’s signature dish, and the sturdy cornbread, dipped in spiced clarified butter, comes freckled with black cumin seeds.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 27, 2023
At least that’s wat UW did in last year’s 83-50 exhibition win over Division II Central Washington and that’s what they did again Tuesday during a 95-64 victory against Division II Alaska-Fairbanks.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 5, 2022
O thing whar-of, if we the trouth ſhal meñ, Is ſo obſcure and dyrk til our clergye, 512 That we wat not what It ſhal ſignefye, Wich cauſith ws we can It not furth ſay.”
From Lancelot of the Laik A Scottish Metrical Romance by Walter W. (Walter William) Skeat
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