Quelle est la définition du mot Sahel ?

Quelle est la définition du mot Sahel ?

SAHEL, subst. masc. 1. [En Afrique du Nord] Région de collines littorales.

Pourquoi le nom Sahel ?

Assahli : Porté au Maroc, le nom est issu de la racine arabe s.H.l, qui signifie « côte, rivage, bordure » et qu’on retrouve dans Sahel. Donc, celui qui vient de la côte, du Sahel.

What does “Sahel” mean in Arabic?

• SAHEL (Arabic for « shore »); a common place-name in countries where Arabic is the dominant language. Sahel thus understood comprises regions which form the inter mediate zone between the fertile lands of the Sudan and the desert.

Is the Sahel a desert or a plain?

• The Sahel is a region of western and north-central Africa. It is semiarid, meaning that it gets more rainfall than a desert but is still fairly dry. The Sahel runs in an east-to-west band through portions of the countries of Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, and Eritrea.

What is meaning of the word Sahel?

• The Sahel is the Arabic word for ‘edge’ or ‘shore’. The Sahel is facing a big problem, Desertification . As the climate of Sahel was mainly dry and hot and leads to a high evaporation rate and also little rainfalls. The distribution of rainfall in the Sahel region is uneven.

Which countries are in the Sahel region?

• The Sahel covers parts of (from west to east) the Gambia, Senegal, southern Mauritania, central Mali, Burkina Faso, southern Algeria and Niger, northern Nigeria and Cameroon, central Chad, southern Sudan, northern South Sudan and northern Eritrea.