Sahara
Syllables: Sa·har·a/səˈhɑːɹə/US/səˈhɛɹə/
Sahara proper noun: a desert mostly in North Africa and the largest hot desert in the world.
Proper noun
the Sahara
- 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'.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume III: The Breakdown, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozkład (in...
- Synonyms:
- Zaara
Sahara meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
Sahara in Hindi
- desert
- सहारा sahārā
Sahara in Tamil
- desert
- சகாரா cakārā
Sahara in Marathi
- desert
- सहारा sahārā
Sahara in Urdu
- desert
- صَحْرائے اَعْظَم sahrā-e a'zam
More languagesFewer languages
- Sahara in Bengali
- সাহারা śahara
- Sahara in Telugu
- సహారా sahārā
- Sahara in Malayalam
- സഹാറ sahāṟa
- Sahara in Kannada
- ಸಹಾರ sahāra
- Sahara in Punjabi
- ਸਹਾਰਾ sahārā
- Sahara in Nepali
- सहारा sahārā
- Sahara in Pashto
- د افریقا صحرا
- Sahara in Tagalog
- Sahara
- Sahara in Arabic
- الصَّحْرَاء الْكُبْرَى aṣ-ṣaḥrāʔ al-kubrā
- Sahara in Malay
- Gurun Sahara
- Sahara in Indonesian
- Gurun Sahara
- Sahara in Persian
- صحرای بزرگ sahrâ-ye bozorg, صحرای بزرگ آفریقا sahrâ-ye bozorg-e âfriqâ
- Sahara in Thai
- ซาฮารา saa-haa-raa
- Sahara in Vietnamese
- Xa-ha-ra
- Sahara in Myanmar
- ဆဟာရ hca.hara.
- Dhivehi
- ސަހަރާ saharā
Synonyms of Sahara
Forms of Sahara
| alternative form (obsolete) | Zaara |
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Origin of Sahara
From Arabic صَحَارَى (ṣaḥārā, “deserts”).
Words formed from Sahara
Phrases with Sahara
Words that rhyme with Sahara
Questions about Sahara
- What does Sahara mean?
- Sahara means a desert mostly in North Africa and the largest hot desert in the world.
- What is Sahara in Hindi?
- Sahara in Hindi is सहारा (sahārā). See Sahara meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is Sahara?
- Sahara is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce Sahara?
- Sahara is pronounced /səˈhɑːɹə/ (UK).
Words near Sahara in the dictionary
Source and license
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