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Definition: Saharan |
SaharanNoun1. A Nilo-Saharan language spoken in parts of Chad. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Saharan" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1913. (references) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| SADR | English | Saharan Arab Democratic Republic | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Morocco | The Government did not permit Western Saharan nationalists who have been released from prison to live in the disputed territory. (references) |
Economic History | Chad | In the Saharan region, only camels and a few hardy goats can survive. (references) |
Algeria | About 1.5 million nomads and semi-settled bedouin still live in the Saharan area. (references) | |
Human Rights | Morocco | The AMDH claims that it knows of no persons imprisoned for having overtly advocated Western Saharan independence. (references) |
Morocco | On May 3, in the Western Saharan city of Laayoune, the local headquarters for the Democratic Confederation of Labor (CDT) issued a statement claiming that security forces forcibly dispersed a sit-in by unemployed graduates outside the Employment Department Headquarters. (references) | |
Morocco | According to several human rights organizations, achieving consensus on a definitive number of political prisoners is extremely difficult, mainly because conditions in the Western Sahara complicate attempts to confirm whether Sahrawis were imprisoned solely for their political affiliation or open advocacy of Western Saharan independence, or whether they were imprisoned for other actions in violation of the law. (references) | |
Political Economy | Western Sahara | Since 1977 the Saharan provinces of Laayoune, Smara, and Boujdour have participated in local elections that are organized and controlled by the Moroccan Government. (references) |
Western Sahara | In August Baker met with representatives of the Polisario to discuss a "third way" compromise, which would entail Western Saharan autonomy within the Kingdom of Morocco. (references) | |
Western Sahara | Efforts by the Organization of African Unity (OAU) to resolve the sovereignty question collapsed in 1984 when the OAU recognized the Saharan Arab Democratic Republic, the civilian arm of the Polisario. (references) | |
Travel | Nigeria | The dry season in the north is usually dusty from Saharan winds called the Harmattan. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Saharan" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 70.00% of the time. "Saharan" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 70% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 20% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 10% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "Saharan": sub-saharan, trans-saharan. | |
Containing "Saharan": Nilo-Saharan language, Sub-Saharan Africa. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
saharan | 12 |
sub saharan | 7 |
hotel motor saharan | 3 |
saharan uromastyx | 2 |
saharan trade trans | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Saharan"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
French | saharien. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aharansay.(various references) | |
Spanish | sahariano (saharian), saharaui (saharian). (various references) | |
Thai | เกี่ยวกับทะเลทรายซาฮารา. (various references) | |
Ukranian | сухий (arid, brut, chilly, drained, dried, dry, dryasdust, dusty, saharian, sear, sere, withered), сахарський (saharian). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Saharan" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Asataryan, Bakhtaran, Isahaya, Kahraman, Sadhana, Sagarin, sahafa, Sahyadri, Sajadah, Sakaran, Sakarov, Salarino, Saphorin, Savarin, Schara, Shaalan, Shaharyar, Shahjahan, Shaitan, Shaofang, Sharhan, Siadatan, Zamaron. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-h-n-r-s" | |
-2 letters: asana, haars, hansa, saran, sharn. | |
-3 letters: aahs, anas, ansa, haar, rash. | |
-4 letters: aah, aas, aha, ana, ars, ash, has, nah, rah, ran, ras, sha. | |
-5 letters: aa, ah, an, ar, as, ha, na, sh. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-h-n-r-s" | |
+1 letter: harianas. | |
+2 letters: amaranths, anaphoras, archaeans, astrakhan, habaneras, hiraganas, maharanis. | |
+3 letters: astrakhans, charabancs, charlatans, harmattans, maharanees, marihuanas. | |
+4 letters: batrachians, pachysandra, pyracanthas, tragacanths. | |
+5 letters: archosaurian, charlatanism, naprapathies, pachysandras, paraphrasing, zoantharians. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 61 68 61 72 61 6E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .- .... .- .-. .- -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100001 01101000 01100001 01110010 01100001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S a h a r a n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0061 0068 0061 0072 0061 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53677467846780 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Abbreviations | 9. Acronyms 10. Derivations 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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