Submitted Name
Type Country & Region
Usage Afrikaans, Armenian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Hindi, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Macedonian, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Norwegian, Polish, Punjabi, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Telugu, Thai, Turkmen, Yiddish
Scripts Սահարա(Armenian) Сахара(Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian) საჰარა(Georgian) सहारा(Hindi, Marathi, Nepali) サハラ(Japanese Katakana) ಸಹಾರ(Kannada) 사하라(Korean Hangul) സഹാറ(Malayalam) ਸਹਾਰਾ(Gurmukhi) صحارا(Shahmukhi) సహారా(Telugu) ซาฮารา(Thai) סאַהאַראַ(Yiddish)
[Meaning & History
Derived from Arabic صَحَارَى (ṣaḥārā) meaning "deserts", the plural of صَحْرَاء (ṣaḥrāʾ) meaning "desert". This is the name of a desert in Northern Africa as well as a disputed territory and semi-independent state (Western Sahara).