Etymology

Sahara

Sa·har·a
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Today it means: A desert mostly in North Africa and the largest hot desert in the world. Full definition →

Arabic صَحَارَى
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The story

  1. Arabic · borrowed fromصَحَارَى“deserts”
  2. English todaySahara

From Arabic صَحَارَى (ṣaḥārā, “deserts”).

Words from the same roots

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Zaara

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.