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Saharan

Saharan adjective: of or pertaining to the Sahara desert.

Adjective

Saharan (comparative more Saharan, superlative most Saharan)

  1. of or pertaining to the Sahara desert

Noun

Saharan (plural Saharans)

  1. A native or inhabitant of the Sahara.
    • A central element in the settlement proposals is the identification and registration of all Western Saharans eligible to vote in the referendum.2005, Erik Jensen, Western Sahara: Anatomy of a Stalemate, page 147

Forms of Saharan

Adjective
comparativemore Saharan
superlativemost Saharan
Noun
pluralSaharans

Origin of Saharan

From Sahara + -an.

Words formed from Saharan

Phrases with Saharan

Questions about Saharan

What does Saharan mean?
Saharan means of or pertaining to the Sahara desert.
What part of speech is Saharan?
Saharan can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near Saharan in the dictionary

  1. Sahaptins
  2. Sahar
  3. Sahara
  4. Sahara Desert
  5. Sahara pump theory
  6. Saharan
  7. Saharanpur
  8. Saharanpur Division
  9. Saharans
  10. Saharawi
  11. Saharawis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Saharan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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