How to say "desert" in Arabic
New wordMeaningdesert
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
صَحْرَاء
ṣaḥrāʾצחראא
صحراء
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
מדבר
midbarمِدْبَار
How the two words are related
New word
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Arabic root
ص-ح-رLearn it
In a phrase
الصَّحْرَاء وَاسِعَة
aṣ-ṣaḥrāʾ wāsiʿaא-צחראא ואסעהthe desert is vast
Plural
صَحَارَى
ṣaḥārāצחאראirregular broken plural — the English name Sahara is this very word: ṣaḥārā, deserts