סהרה

Internationalism. Ultimately from Arabic صَحَارَى (ṣaḥārā, “deserts”). Direct borrowing from Arabic would render ح (ḥ) as ח (kh, ḥ).

• סָחָרָה

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /saˈha.ʁa/ [säˈ(h)ä.ʁ̞ä]
  • IPA^(key): (Among conservative Mizrahi and Israeli Arab speakers) /ˈsaħ.ʁa/^[1]

סָהָרָה • (sahára) f

2. Sahara (a desert in Africa)

   Synonym: מִדְבַּר סָהָרָה

   • 1972, J. Eidelberg, במברה‎^[1], המתמיד, page 81:

     מִדְבַּר סָהָרָה, שֶׁהוּא הַמִּדְבָּר הַגָּדוֹל בְּיוֹתֵר בָּעוֹלָם, לֹא הָיָה תָּמִיד שׁוֹמֵם וְצָחִיחַ כְּפִי שֶׁהוּא כַּיּוֹם.

     mid'bár sahára, shehú hamid'bár hagadól b'yotér ba'olám, ló hayá tamíd shomém v'tsaníakh k'fí shehú kayóm.

     The Sahara Desert, which is the largest desert in the world, was not always as barren and arid as it is today.

• “סהרה”, in Milog (in Hebrew)

• סהרה on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he

From סַהַר (sáhar, “crescent”) +‎ ־ָהּ (-áh, “her”).

• (Tiberian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /sa.hăˈrˤɔh/ [saː.hăˈʀɔːh]
• (Ashkenazi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /sa.haˈʁɔ/
• (Mizrahi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /sa.haˈraːh/
• (Sephardi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /sä.häˈɾä(ː)h/, (Greek and Turkish) [sä.äˈɾä(ː)]
• (Italian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /sa.aˈra/
• (Yemenite Hebrew) IPA^(key): /sæ.hæˈrɔːh/ [sæ(ː).hæ(ː)ˈrɔːh]
• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /sa.haˈʁa(h)/ [sä.äˈʁ̞ä], [sä(ː)ˈʁ̞ä]

סַהֲרָהּ • (saharáh)

1. singular form of סַהַר (sáhar)‎ with third-person feminine singular personal pronoun as possessor.

• “סהר”, in Milog (in Hebrew)