Meaning and Origin
What does the name Sahara mean? Keep reading to find the user submitted meanings, dictionary definitions, and more.
User Submitted Origins
User Submitted Meanings
- 2 submissions from Texas, U.S. agree the name Sahara means "Wilderness".
- A user from Virginia, U.S. says the name Sahara is of Arabic origin and means "Support".
- A user from North Dakota, U.S. says the name Sahara means "Dawn".
- A user from Minnesota, U.S. says the name Sahara is of Indian (Sanskrit) origin and means "Defies god".
- According to a user from the United Kingdom, the name Sahara is of Arabic origin and means "Desert".
- The world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in northern Africa
From Arabic صَحَارَى (ṣaḥārā, “deserts”).
- A desert in North Africa, the largest hot desert in the world.
Sahara was also found in the following language(s): Czech, French, German, Italian, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, and Swahili