Sahara

Etymology
From.

Proper noun

 * , the largest hot desert in the world.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: Sahara
 * Albanian: Sahara, Saharaja
 * Amharic: ሰሐራ
 * Arabic: الصَّحْرَاء الْكُبْرَى
 * Armenian: Սահարա
 * Azerbaijani: Böyük Səhra
 * Basque: Sahara
 * Belarusian: Саха́ра
 * Bengali: সাহারা
 * Bulgarian: Саха́ра
 * Burmese: ဆဟာရ
 * Catalan:
 * Cherokee: ᏌᎭᏩ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: Sahara
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: Saharo
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: Sahara
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: საჰარა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: סָהָרָה
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: Sahara
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: Gurun Sahara
 * Irish: An Sahára
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kannada: ಸಹಾರ
 * Kazakh: Сахара
 * Khmer: សាហារ៉ា
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: Sahara
 * Kyrgyz: Сакар
 * Lao: ຊາຮາລາ, ຊາຮາຣາ
 * Latin: Sahāra
 * Latvian: Sahāra
 * Lithuanian: Sachara
 * Macedonian: Саха́ра
 * Malay: Gurun Sahara
 * Malayalam: സഹാറ
 * Maltese: Saħara
 * Marathi: सहारा
 * Mirandese: Sahara
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: Сахарын цөл
 * Nepali: सहारा
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: Sahara
 * Nynorsk: Sahara
 * Pashto: د افریقا صحرا
 * Persian: صحرای بزرگ, صحرای بزرگ آفریقا
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: Saara,
 * Punjabi:
 * Romanian: Sahara
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Са̀хара
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Somali: Saxara
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili: Sahara
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: Sahara
 * Tajik: Саҳрои бузург
 * Tamil: சகாரா
 * Telugu: సహారా
 * Thai: ซาฮารา
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: Sahara
 * Ukrainian: Саха́ра
 * Urdu: صَحارا, صَحْرائے اَعْظَم
 * Uyghur: سەھرايى كەبىر
 * Uzbek: Sahroi Kabir
 * Vietnamese: Xa-ha-ra
 * Yiddish: סאַהאַראַ

Proper noun

 * 1)  desert

Etymology
From.

The area was named after the desert because its construction necessitated the use of a lot of sand to build up a foundation.

Proper noun

 * 1) Sahara

Etymology
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Etymology
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Usage notes

 * Sahara is feminine and takes the definite article ; compare English "the Sahara".
 * Very occasionally, Sahara occurs without a definite article; in such cases a genitive may occur. In such usages, the gender is unclear.

Etymology
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Etymology
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Proper noun

 * 1)  desert

Etymology
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Proper noun

 * 1) Sahara desert