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

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

There she could find mounds of jaggery; bags of crispy, salty sev; and pounds of whole wheat atta for making rotis.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 24, 2019

Sheep are also to be had, but they are small, and goats for one rupee each, large sheep two rupees: dhal, atta, barley procurable; and Herat rugs.

From Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries by Griffith, William