shottn.

/ʃɒt/

Forms: Also shat, shot, chott.

Etymology: North African Arabic shaṭṭ ‘lac salé’ (Belkassem Dict. Arabe-fr.).

A shallow brackish lake or marsh in Northern Africa, usually dry in the summer and covered with saline deposits. Cf. sabkha n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > lake > [noun] > other types

pene-lake1668

salina1697

slough1714

salt lake1763

bayou1766

lagoon1769

cut-off1773

prairie1820

maar1826

boating lake1834

serpentine1837

soda lake1839

bitter lake1843

stream-lake1867

shott1878

crater-lake1879

playa1885

oxbow lake1887

kettle-hole lake1902

mortlake1902

oxbow1902

seepage lake1934

paternoster lake1942

soda pan1976

the world > the earth > minerals > mineral sources > [noun] > salt or soda lake

salinec1450

salt-pan1494

pan1573

salt-wich1610

salina1697

salt-pond1697

salt lake1763

natron lake1821

soda lake1839

bitter lake1843

shott1878

soda pan1976

the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [noun] > salt-marsh

salt marshc1000

salinec1450

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salina1697

salt-pan1785

maremma1819

shott1878

pré salé1903

1878 A. K. Johnston Africa ii. 20 A long series of brackish lakes, here called Sebkha or Shott.

1891 Playfair in Rep. Brit. Assoc. 1890 876 Some parts of the Sahara are below the level of the sea, and here are formed what are called chotts or sebkhas, open depressions without any outlets, inundated by torrents from the southern slopes of the Atlas in winter and covered with a saline efflorescence in summer.

1898 Geogr. Jrnl. June 604 The shats, or salt lakes, of the south of Tunis are rather a disappointment to the traveller.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXIII. 482/1 These shats..are, strictly speaking, not lakes at all at the present day.

1926 A. Huxley Ess. New & Old 7 Beyond the oasis we could see the chotts, glittering in the sun.

1957 G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. i. 136 In north Africa there is a series of inland drainage basins or shotts between the Greater and Lesser Atlas Mountains.

1969 J. W. Mavor Voy. Atlantis ii. 46 Paul Borchardt, in 1927..placed the lesser island of Atlantis..a few miles inland of the gulf of Gabès in Tunisia in the region of ‘shotts’.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	shott
释义	shottn. /ʃɒt/ Forms: Also shat, shot, chott. Etymology: North African Arabic shaṭṭ ‘lac salé’ (Belkassem Dict. Arabe-fr.). A shallow brackish lake or marsh in Northern Africa, usually dry in the summer and covered with saline deposits. Cf. sabkha n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > lake > [noun] > other types pene-lake1668 salina1697 slough1714 salt lake1763 bayou1766 lagoon1769 cut-off1773 prairie1820 maar1826 boating lake1834 serpentine1837 soda lake1839 bitter lake1843 stream-lake1867 shott1878 crater-lake1879 playa1885 oxbow lake1887 kettle-hole lake1902 mortlake1902 oxbow1902 seepage lake1934 paternoster lake1942 soda pan1976 the world > the earth > minerals > mineral sources > [noun] > salt or soda lake salinec1450 salt-pan1494 pan1573 salt-wich1610 salina1697 salt-pond1697 salt lake1763 natron lake1821 soda lake1839 bitter lake1843 shott1878 soda pan1976 the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [noun] > salt-marsh salt marshc1000 salinec1450 salt1621 salina1697 salt-pan1785 maremma1819 shott1878 pré salé1903 1878 A. K. Johnston Africa ii. 20 A long series of brackish lakes, here called Sebkha or Shott. 1891 Playfair in Rep. Brit. Assoc. 1890 876 Some parts of the Sahara are below the level of the sea, and here are formed what are called chotts or sebkhas, open depressions without any outlets, inundated by torrents from the southern slopes of the Atlas in winter and covered with a saline efflorescence in summer. 1898 Geogr. Jrnl. June 604 The shats, or salt lakes, of the south of Tunis are rather a disappointment to the traveller. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXIII. 482/1 These shats..are, strictly speaking, not lakes at all at the present day. 1926 A. Huxley Ess. New & Old 7 Beyond the oasis we could see the chotts, glittering in the sun. 1957 G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. i. 136 In north Africa there is a series of inland drainage basins or shotts between the Greater and Lesser Atlas Mountains. 1969 J. W. Mavor Voy. Atlantis ii. 46 Paul Borchardt, in 1927..placed the lesser island of Atlantis..a few miles inland of the gulf of Gabès in Tunisia in the region of ‘shotts’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1878
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