HOW TO PRONOUNCE
sahara
/səˈhɛɹə/
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What does sahara mean?
proper noun
- A desert mostly in North Africa and the largest hot desert in the world.
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IPA pronunciation
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“I bet you a thousand to one I know where we are. We’re in the Great Sahara, as sure as guns!”
Mr. Tristram has remarked in regard to the inhabitants of the Sahara, that all are protected by their “isabelline or sand-colour.”
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These Sahara robbers are very bad people, who fight, and steal all they can get, and always kill everyone they can.
Their country is on the confines of the Sahara, or great desert, and their language is the Shilhah, or a dialect thereof.
Perhaps it ran out over what is now the Sahara, the great desert of sand, for, that was a sea-bottom not long ago.