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Revision as of 09:09, 27 June 2024
English
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.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
- An arid desert in southern California, north and east of Los Angeles and southeast of the Sierra Nevada, the driest desert in North America.
See also
- For further information, see Wikipedia.