Skip to main content
Saharan

Saharan

5.9
Relating to the Sahara Desert region
  • adjective
  • /səˈhɑːrən/
translation icon : saharaui
  • The Saharan climate is characterized by extremely high temperatures and very little rainfall.

And the second one, why is sub-Saharan Africa still so poor?

Autoplay Next

Examples

  • And what you find, and you particularly find it in places like sub-Saharan Africa, there's not enough nitrogen to grow the crops to feed the people.

  • If you add up all of the birth rate statistics, sub-Saharan Africa has about twice the birth rate of North Africa.

  • And you see the same story in Christian sub-Saharan Africa countries.

  • And the second one, why is sub-Saharan Africa still so poor?

  • Time has come to stop thinking about sub-Saharan Africa as one place.

  • For example, there are more opportunities today, I would bet in sub-Saharan Africa than any place else just because that place needs so much.

  • Most of them are in sub-Saharan Africa.

  • What does it mean about consent for studies in sub-Saharan Africa and India?

  • But this is even more dramatic in parts of sub-Saharan Africa and in parts of Asia.

  • We've seen major inroads in HIV in sub-Saharan Africa.

Compounds

The part of Africa that is south of the Sahara Desert

Nilo-Saharan
  • Specialized
9.9

A group of languages spoken in East Africa from the Sahara to Kenya and Tanzania

Nilo-Saharan language
  • Specialized
9.9

A language from a family spoken in East and Central Africa by people like the Maasai

Saharan language
  • Specialized
9.9

A language spoken in Chad and nearby parts of central Africa

Surface Forms

Saharan positive

Morphology

Saharan = Sahara (transparent) = Sahara + an

This is a straightforward adjective formed from the place name 'Sahara' with the productive suffix '-an', meaning 'of or relating to'.

Etymology

Saharan comes from the name Sahara, from Arabic ṣaḥrā' meaning 'desert', and the ending -an means 'from' or 'of'. So Saharan means 'from the Sahara', and we use it to describe things like Saharan sands or Saharan climate that come from that desert.