different between shat vs ghat

English

Etymology 1

A late innovation, apparently by analogy with sit ? sat; spit ? spat, etc. First recorded in the eighteenth century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æt/
• Rhymes: -æt

Verb

shat

1. simple past tense and past participle of shit
   • 1999, Julian O'Neill, quoted in Peter Moss, "Let He Without Sin Kick The First Goal", in Workers Online number 12 (1999 May 7):

     Hey Schlossie [=Jeremy Schloss], I just shat in your shoe.

Etymology 2

Arabic ????? (ša??); see chott; for the spelling, compare Shatt al-Arab.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

shat (plural shats)

1. Alternative form of chott
   • 1902, The Encyclopaedia Britannica, Tenth Edition; […] , page 482:

     All this region round the shats has been called the “Jerid” from the time of the Arab occupation.

Etymology 3

Sometimes said to be a shortening of an obsolete word (*)shattle (“needle”), but more likely a shortening of the synonymous (pine) shatter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æt/
• Rhymes: -æt

Noun

shat (plural shats)

1. (chiefly Maryland, Delaware) Synonym of shatter (“a pine needle”).
   • 1921, Whitelock vs Dennis (decision on appeal), in the Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Appeals of Maryland, page 559:

     Dryden used the car that afternoon to get shats for the hog pen of Ollie Hitchens, who [...] gave Dryden a dollar for his services in getting the shats [...] some pine shats for his father.

   • 2012, Rob Wilgus, Sickle, Trafford Publishing (?ISBN), page 225:

     A small, well known, pine shat covered path pushed between two rows of trees.

References

Anagrams

• ATHs, HATs, Tash, has't, hast, hats, tash, thas

Albanian

Alternative forms

• shatë

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *?akt?, from Proto-Indo-European *s?k-teh?-, from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”). Cognate to Latin secula (“sickle”), sacena (“pick-axe of the pontifix”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?at/

Noun

shat m (indefinite plural shata)

1. heart-shaped hoe, mattock

References

Hausa

Etymology

Borrowed from English shirt.

Noun

shât f

1. shirt

Kriol

Etymology

From English shot

Noun

shat

1. attempt

English

Alternative forms

• (a ravine leading to the sea): ghaut

Etymology

From Hindi ??? (gh??, “pier”), from Sanskrit ???? (gha??a, “a landing-place, steps on the side of a river leading to the waters”). Perhaps related to Telugu ???? (ka??a, “dam, embankment”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???t/, /???t/
• Rhymes: -??t

Noun

ghat (plural ghats)

1. (India) A descending path or stairway to a river; a ford or landing-place.

   1855, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Flora Indica

   • The abrupt escarpment of the western Ghats condenses so much of the moisture of the south-west monsoon

   • 2008, Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger, Atlantic 2009, p. 16:

     Chunks of wood were being built into funeral pyres on the steps of the ghat that went down into the water; four bodies were burning on the ghat steps when we got there.

2. (India) A mountain range.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Balfour (Cyc. of India) to this entry?)

3. (India) A mountain pass.
4. (Caribbean) A steep ravine leading to the sea.
5. (India) A burning-ghat.

Anagrams

• GTHA