Mojave Desert en · PROPN
Pronunciation
- /məʉˈhɐːviːˌdesət/ (Australia)
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- /məˈhɐːviːˌdesət/ (Australia)
Etymology
Named after the Mohave people, from a shortened form of their endonym, Mojave Hamakhaave (“beside the water”). The spelling Mojave is from Spanish, while Mohave comes from modern English.
Meanings
- An arid desert in southern California, north and east of Los Angeles and southeast of the Sierra Nevada, the driest desert in North America.