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HOW TO PRONOUNCE

sahara

/səˈhɛɹə/

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What does sahara mean?

proper noun

  1. A desert mostly in North Africa and the largest hot desert in the world.

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IPA pronunciation

/səˈhɛɹə/

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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!”
Mark TwainTom Sawyer AbroadProject Gutenberg ebook #91
Mr. Tristram has remarked in regard to the inhabitants of the Sahara, that all are protected by their “isabelline or sand-colour.”
Charles DarwinThe Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to SexProject Gutenberg ebook #2300
More book examples (3)
These Sahara robbers are very bad people, who fight, and steal all they can get, and always kill everyone they can.
Edith A. HowPeople of AfricaProject Gutenberg ebook #6693
Their country is on the confines of the Sahara, or great desert, and their language is the Shilhah, or a dialect thereof.
George BorrowThe Zincali: An Account of the Gypsies of SpainProject Gutenberg ebook #565
Perhaps it ran out over what is now the Sahara, the great desert of sand, for, that was a sea-bottom not long ago.
Charles KingsleyMadam How and Lady Why; Or, First Lessons in Earth Lore for ChildrenProject Gutenberg ebook #1697