atta

American  

[aht-uh] / ˈɑt ə /

Or ata

noun

1. a whole wheat flour from the Indian subcontinent, having a high gluten content and used to make chapati and other traditional flatbreads.

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Singh Shah said that an ongoing restriction on atta — a type of flour used to bake naan and other flatbreads — has had similar effects.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 28, 2023

I watch as she gestures toward a large bowl of potatoes and peas, and the dough or atta, as she always calls it, in a separate container.

From Salon ● Dec. 11, 2022

Opening in November, the revamped Masalawala in Park Slope, Brooklyn, on the corner of Fifth Avenue and Fifth Street, will venture into retail, selling staples like basmati and atta, along with spice blends and sauces.

From New York Times ● Jul. 19, 2021

For those of you keeping score at home, one seven-second atta boy from The Rock is roughly equivalent to 23 runs.

From Golf Digest ● Mar. 27, 2019

The preterit is formed by changing the i in which the present tense ends to c and then adding the preterit of ari,u which is atta; e.g., nacatta or gozanacatta 'he was not.'

From Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language by Richard L. Spear