Sahel
English
/səˈhɛl/
proper noun
Definitions
- (region in Africa), between the Sahara to the north and a more humid zone (Sudan) to the south.
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic سَاحِل (border of the desert, coast).
Origin
Arabic
سَاحِل
Gloss
border of the desert, coast
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- -anthropy English
- Sahelian English
- therianthrope English
- anthropologia Latin
- –anthropus Latin
- Anthropologie German
- antropo- Italian
- antropologie Dutch, Flemish
- antropoloog Dutch, Flemish
- antropo- Spanish, Castilian
- -λογία Ancient Greek
- λυκάνθρωπος Ancient Greek
- ἀνθρωποφάγος Ancient Greek
- ἀνθρωπόλογος Ancient Greek
- ἀνθρώπινος Ancient Greek
- ἄνθρωπος Ancient Greek
- ὀλιγανθρωπία Ancient Greek
- *h₃ókʷs Proto-Indo-European
- antropo- Portuguese
- antrapa- Irish
- antropomorf Danish
- antropo- Czech
- سَاحِل Arabic
- ساحل Persian
- άνθρωπος Greek (modern)
- ανθρωπο- Greek (modern)
- antropologi Indonesian
- sahil Azerbaijani
- swahili Swahili