Chinese

Japanese

Alternative forms

• 沙 (さ)漠 (ばく) ‎(sabaku)

Etymology

From Middle Chinese /*ʂamɑk̚/ > Japanese /*sabaku/.

Pronunciation

• On'yomi: Kan'on
• (Tokyo) さばく [sàbákú] (Heiban - [0])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [sa̠ba̠kɯᵝ]

Noun

砂漠 ‎(hiragana さばく, romaji sabaku)

1. desert (barren area)

References

1. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

• 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, ISBN 4095102535.

Korean

Noun

砂漠 • ‎(samak) ‎(hangeul 사막)

1. Hanja form^? of 사막, “desert (barren area)”.