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

Translations

desert

• Afrikaans: Sahara
• Albanian: Saharaja
• Amharic: ሰሐራ (säḥära)
• Arabic: صَحْرَاء‎ (ar) f (ṣaḥrāʾ), اَلصَّحْرَاء‎ f (aṣ-ṣaḥrāʾ)
• Armenian: Սահարա (Sahara)
• Azerbaijani: Səhra
• Basque: Sahara
• Belarusian: Саха́ра f (Saxára)
• Bengali: সাহারা (sahara)
• 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)

Further reading

• Sahara on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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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.

Proper noun

Sahara f

1. Sahara (desert in Africa)

Derived terms

• Saharastaub

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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 (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)

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Swahili

Etymology

From Arabic صَحَارَى‎ (ṣaḥārā).

Proper noun

Sahara

1. Sahara (desert)