Saguia el-Hamra

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. One of the two territories (the other being Río de Oro) that formed the Spanish province of Spanish Sahara after 1969.

Word forms

Saguia el-Hamra

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic السَّاقِيَة الْحَمْرَاء (as-sāqiya l-ḥamrāʔ, literally “the red rivulet”).

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