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atta

contractionnounattested in dialogue

that's the; that's a

contraction

  1. 1

    that's the; that's a

Etymology

Probably from that's a with heavy simplification.

noun

  1. 1

    A type of wholegrain flour from the Indian subcontinent.

    Kabutri, in the meanwhile, had kneaded some atta and rolled out a few real rotis.

    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.

Etymology

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

Forms

plural
attas
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).