Open ClozeExercise 62 of 100

Sahara is (0) AN Arabic word (1) .......... means dun or mouse-coloured. For the Arabs it signified originally a flat, barren expanse of grey-brown earth. This is the meaning it has in pre-islamic Arab literature. Sah'ra is the colour of death. El Yakubi, a geographer of the ninth century, (2) .......... uses the…