Alternative spelling of chatta; an umbrella or parasol, particularly in South Asian contexts.
Variant spelling of chatta, from Sanskrit छत्र (chattra). The spelling variation reflects different romanization systems for translating Sanskrit and Hindi into English.
Chattah vs. chatta shows how colonizers spelled the same word differently—sometimes consistency just never happened because different British officials encountered the word in different regions and wrote phonetically.
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