Sahara
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Sahara
- /səˈhɑːɹə/ UK
- /səˈhɛɹə/ US
- /səˈhæɹə/
Rhymes with -ɑːɹə, -ɛəɹə
Where it comes from
From Arabic صَحَارَى (ṣaḥārā, “deserts”).
proper noun the Sahara · Zaara
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A desert mostly in North Africa and the largest hot desert in the world.
[…] he nevertheless assures us that if it were not for imperialism we should already be able to irrigate the Sahara and the Gobi desert, and turn Siberia and the Antarctic into pleasure resorts, at the cost of 'a few hundredweight of uranium and thorium'.
Similar: Zaara
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: sahara desert, saharan, sub-saharan, sahelian, sahrawi, westphalian, westerner, occidental, western, saharawi, sahraoui, sarah, wilderness, bank, west, dessert
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Talk about this word "Sahara." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/sahara. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. Sahara. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/sahara "Sahara." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/sahara.Cite this
@misc{sahara_2026,
title = {Sahara},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sahara},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
