Sahara

See also: sahara, Sàhara, saħara, and Sahāra

English

Etymology

From Arabic صَحَارَى‎ (ṣaḥārā, “deserts”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /səˈhɑːɹə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /səˈhɛəɹə/
• Rhymes: -ɑːrə

Proper noun

Sahara

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

Derived terms

• Saharan
• Saharo-

Translations

desert

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

  Mandarin: 撒哈拉 (zh) (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 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 (Sahara)
• Kurdish: Sahara (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Сакар (Sakar)
• 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 (Saharyn 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: Sahra Çölü (tr)
• Turkmen: Sahara
• Ukrainian: Саха́ра f (Saxára)
• Uzbek: Sahroi Kabir
• Vietnamese: Sahara
• Yiddish: סאַהאַראַ‎ f (sahara)

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Czech

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Sahara f

1. Sahara (desert)

Derived terms

• saharský

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French

Etymology

From Arabic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.a.ʁa/
• Rhymes: -a

Proper noun

Sahara m

1. Sahara

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German

Etymology

From the same Arabic source as English Sahara.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [zaˈhaːʁa]

• Audio

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Proper noun

Sahara f

1. Sahara (a desert in Africa)

Declension

Declension of Sahara (uncountable)

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Sahara
genitive	einer	der	Sahara
dative	einer	der	Sahara
accusative	eine	die	Sahara

Synonyms

• Saharawüste

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): /saˈara/, [s̪äˈäː.r̺ä]
• 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/

• audio

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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

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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).

Proper noun

Sahara

1. Sahara (desert)