Sahara

See also saħara

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Arabic صحراء “desert” (Sahara Desert is thus a pleonasm.)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /səˈhɑːrə/
• (US) IPA: /səˈhɛərə/
• Rhymes: -ɑːrə

Proper noun

Sahara

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

Derived terms

• Saharan

Translations

Desert

• Arabic: صحراء (ar) (SaHraa') f, الصحراء (ar) (al-SaHraa') f
• Armenian: Սահարա (hy) (Sahara) 
• Belarusian: Сахара (be) (Saxára) f 
• Bulgarian: Сахара (bg) (Sahára) f 
• Catalan: Sàhara (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 撒哈拉 (cmn) (Sǎhālā)

• Czech: Sahara (cs) f
• French: Sahara (fr) m
• German: Sahara (de) f
• Greek: Σαχάρα (el) (Sachára) f 
• Hindi: सहारा (hi) (sahārā)
• Hungarian: Szahara (hu)

• Italian: Sahara (it) m
• Japanese: サハラ (ja) (Sahara)
• Korean: 사하라 (ko) (Sahara)
• Macedonian: Сахара (mk) (Sahára) f
• Marathi: सहारा (mr) (sahārā)
• Norwegian: Sahara (no) m
• Polish: Sahara (pl) f
• Russian: Сахара (ru) (Saxára) f 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Сахара (sh) f

  Roman: Sahara (sh) f

• Slovak: Sahara (sk) f
• Ukrainian: Сахара (uk) (Saxára) f 

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Czech

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Sahara f

1. Sahara (desert)

Derived terms

• saharský

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French

Wikipedia ^fr

Etymology

From Arabic

Pronunciation

• IPA: /sa.a.ʁa/, X-SAMPA: /sa.a.Ra/
• Rhymes: -a

Proper noun

Sahara m

1. Sahara

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German

Wikipedia ^de

Etymology

From the same Arabic source as the English word Sahara.

Proper noun

Sahara f

1. Sahara (desert in Africa)

Derived terms

• Saharastaub

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Italian

Proper noun

Wikipedia ^it

Sahara m

1. Sahara

Derived terms

• sahariano

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Latin

Wikipedia ^la

Proper noun

Sahara (genitive Saharae); f, first declension

1. Sahara

Inflection

nominative	Sahara
genitive	Saharae
dative	Saharae
accusative	Saharam
ablative	Saharā
vocative	Sahara
locative	Saharae

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Polish

Wikipedia ^pl

Pronunciation

• IPA: /saˈxara/

• audio

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Proper noun

Sahara f

1. Sahara (desert in Africa)

Declension

    declension of Sahara

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

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /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