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

During January and February, one could buy several things from Arabs in the bazaar, i.e., tea, dried beans, atta and "kabobs" or small hot chapatties, cooked in grease.

From A Kut Prisoner by H. C. W. Bishop

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