Sahara

See also: sahara, Sàhara, and Sahāra

English

Etymology

From Arabic صَحَارَى‎ (ṣaḥārā, “deserts”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /səˈhɑːɹə/

• Audio (UK)

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /səˈhɑɹə/, /səˈhɛɹə/
• Rhymes: -ɑːɹə, -ɛəɹə

Proper noun

the Sahara

1. A desert in North Africa, the largest hot desert in the world.

   Synonym: Zaara

Derived terms

• Saharan
• Saharo-

Translations

desert

• Afrikaans: Sahara
• Albanian: Saharaja
• Amharic: ሰሐራ (säḥära)
• Arabic: اَلصَّحْرَاء الْكُبْرَى‎ f (aṣ-ṣaḥrāʾ al-kubrā)
• Armenian: Սահարա (Sahara)
• Azerbaijani: Böyük Səhra
• Basque: Sahara
• Belarusian: Саха́ра f (Saxára)
• Bengali: সাহারা (śahara)
• Bulgarian: Саха́ра f (Sahára)
• Burmese: ဆဟာရ (hca.hara.)
• Catalan: Sàhara (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᏌᎭᏩ (sahawa)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 撒哈拉 (zh) (Sāhālā, Sǎhālā)

• Czech: Sahara (cs) f
• Danish: Sahara c
• Dutch: Sahara (nl) f
• Esperanto: Saharo
• Estonian: Sahara (et)
• Faroese: Sahara m
• Finnish: Sahara (fi)
• French: Sahara (fr) m
• Galician: Sáhara (gl) m
• Georgian: საჰარა (sahara)
• German: Sahara (de) f
• Greek: Σαχάρα (el) f (Sachára)
• Hebrew: סהרה‎ f (sahrah)
• Hindi: सहारा (hi) (sahārā)
• Hungarian: Szahara (hu)
• Icelandic: Sahara f
• Ido: Sahara (io)
• Indonesian: Gurun Sahara
• Irish: An Sahára f
• Italian: Sahara (it) m
• Japanese: サハラ (Sahara)
• Kannada: ಸಹಾರ (sahāra)
• Kazakh: Сахара (Saxara)
• Khmer: សាហារ៉ា (saahaaraa)
• Korean: 사하라 (ko) (Sahara)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Sahara

• Kyrgyz: Сакар (Saqar)
• Latvian: Sahāra f
• Lithuanian: Sachara f
• Macedonian: Саха́ра f (Sahára)
• Malay: Gurun Sahara
• Malayalam: സഹാറ (sahāṟa)
• Maltese: Saħara f
• Marathi: सहारा (sahārā)
• Mirandese: Sahara m
• Mongolian: Сахарын цөл (Saharïn tsöl)
• Nepali: सहारा (sahārā)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Sahara m

  Nynorsk: Sahara m

• Persian: صحرای بزرگ‎ (sahrâ-ye bozorg)
• Polish: Sahara (pl) f
• Portuguese: Saara m, Sara (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਸਹਾਰਾ (pa) (sahārā)
• Romanian: Sahara f
• Russian: Саха́ра (ru) f (Saxára)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Са̀хара f

  Roman: Sàhara (sh) f

• Slovak: Sahara (sk) f
• Slovene: Sahara (sl) f
• Somali: Saxara
• Spanish: Sáhara (es) m, Sahara (es) m
• Swahili: Sahara
• Swedish: Sahara (sv) c
• Tagalog: Sahara
• Tajik: Саҳрои бузург (Sahroyi buzurg)
• Tamil: சகாரா (cakārā)
• Telugu: సహారా (sahārā)
• Thai: ซาฮารา (saa-haa-raa)
• Turkish: Büyük Sahra (tr)
• Turkmen: Sahara
• Ukrainian: Саха́ра f (Saxára)
• Urdu: صحرائے اعظم‎
• Uyghur: سەھرايى كەبىر‎ (sehrayi kebir)
• Uzbek: Sahroi Kabir
• Vietnamese: Sahara
• Yiddish: סאַהאַראַ‎ f (sahara)

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsaɦara]

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ara

Proper noun

Sahara f

1. Sahara (desert)

Derived terms

• saharský
• subsaharský

Further reading

• Sahara in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• Sahara in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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Dutch

Etymology

From Arabic صَحْرَاء‎ (ṣaḥrāʾ, “desert”).

The name of the neighbourhood in Enschede is first attested in 1979. The area was named after the desert because its construction necessitated the use of a lot of sand to build up a foundation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɑˈɦaː.raː/
• Hyphenation: Sa‧ha‧ra
• Rhymes: -aː

Proper noun

Sahara n

1. Sahara
2. A neighbourhood of Wageningen, Gelderland, Netherlands.
3. A neighbourhood of Enschede, Overijssel, Netherlands.

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French

Etymology

From Arabic صَحْرَاء‎ (ṣaḥrāʾ, “desert”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.a.ʁa/
• Rhymes: -a

Proper noun

Sahara m

1. Sahara

   Synonym: désert du Sahara

   Holonym: Afrique

   Hypernym: désert

   Meronyms: désert de Libye, désert Libyque

Derived terms

• Sahara occidental
• saharien

 

Related terms

• Sahel

 

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German

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic صَحَارَى‎ (ṣaḥārā, “deserts”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zaˈhaːʁa/

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Proper noun

die Sahara f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der Sahara)

1. Sahara (a desert in North Africa)

   Synonym: Saharawüste

Usage notes

• Sahara is feminine and takes the definite article die; compare English "the Sahara".
• Very occasionally, Sahara occurs without a definite article; in such cases a genitive Saharas may occur. In such usages, the gender is unclear.

Declension

Declension of Sahara [sg-only, feminine]

	singular
	def.	noun
nominative	die	Sahara
genitive	der	Sahara
dative	der	Sahara
accusative	die	Sahara

Meronyms

• Nordsahara, Ostsahara, Südsahara, Westsahara

Derived terms

• saharisch, Subsahara

Related terms

• Saharadurchquerung, Saharanomade, Saharasand, Saharastaub

Further reading

• “Sahara” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Sahara” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Sahara” in Duden online

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Italian

Alternative forms

• Saara

Etymology

From Arabic صَحْرَاء‎ (ṣaḥrāʾ, “desert”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saˈa.ra/
• Rhymes: -ara
• Hyphenation: Sa‧hà‧ra

Proper noun

Sahara m

1. Sahara

Derived terms

• sahariano

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Latin

Proper noun

Sahāra f sg (genitive Sahārae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Sahara

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Sahāra
Genitive	Sahārae
Dative	Sahārae
Accusative	Sahāram
Ablative	Sahārā
Vocative	Sahāra
Locative	Sahārae

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saˈxa.ra/

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• Rhymes: -ara
• Syllabification: Sa‧ha‧ra

Proper noun

Sahara f

1. Sahara (a desert in Africa)

Declension

Declension of Sahara

	singular
nominative	Sahara
genitive	Sahary
dative	Saharze
accusative	Saharę
instrumental	Saharą
locative	Saharze
vocative	Saharo

Further reading

• Sahara in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Sahara in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Sahara m

1. Obsolete form of Saara.

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sǎxara/
• Hyphenation: Sa‧ha‧ra

Proper noun

Sàhara f (Cyrillic spelling Са̀хара)

1. Sahara

Declension

Declension of Sahara

	singular
nominative	Sahara
genitive	Sahare
dative	Sahari
accusative	Saharu
vocative	Saharo
locative	Sahari
instrumental	Saharom

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Spanish

Alternative forms

• Sáhara

Proper noun

Sahara m

1. Sahara (desert)

Derived terms

• Sahara Occidental

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Swahili

Etymology

From Arabic صَحَارَى‎ (ṣaḥārā).

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

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Proper noun

Sahara

1. Sahara (desert)