Mojave Desert

English

AI In plain words

Writing a short explanation…

Written by a house AI from the entry below, in your language. The entry itself is the source.

Mojave Desert

/məˈhɐːviːˌdesət/ Australia
/məʉˈhɐːviːˌdesət/ Australia

Where it comes from

Named after the Mohave people, from a shortened form of their endonym, Mojave Hamakhaave (“beside the water”).

The spelling Mojave is from Spanish, while Mohave comes from modern English.

proper noun

An arid desert in southern California, north and east of Los Angeles and southeast of the Sierra Nevada, the driest desert in North America.

Talk about this word

Cite this

MLA

"Mojave Desert." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/mojave%20desert. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

Mojave Desert. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/mojave%20desert

Chicago

"Mojave Desert." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/mojave%20desert.

BibTeX

@misc{mojave_desert_2026,
  title = {Mojave Desert},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mojave%20desert},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}