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That prompted me to look up what 'sahara' and 'desert' are in Arabic -

صحراء - Sahra' - Desert

الصحراء الكبرى - alsahra' alkubraa - The big desert?

What language are you coming from?



I am an Arab, that's why I always notice it. صحراء means desert, any desert, not a specific one.


Yeah I think English does tend to do that a lot to foreign loan words, that's pretty interesting though, I guess you learn something new every day. The Anglosphere probably isn't the most polyglot out of all the spheres of languages.




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