Other forms: oases
An oasis is the green watery island of life in the middle of a desert. Reach the oasis, a desert oasis, an oasis of calm.
The water comes from underground, often from rain that fell far away and long ago, which is why an oasis can sit in a place with no rainfall at all. The figurative use — an oasis of calm — is now at least as common. The word came through Greek from Egyptian.
1nounoasisA fertile watered place in a desert.
“After days crossing the desert, the travellers reached an oasis with palm trees and a well.”
oasis is a place.
Greek oasis comes from an Egyptian word for a fertile spot in the desert.
egy
wḥꜣt — oasis, cauldron
egx-dem
wḥj
Ancient Greek
Ὄασις
Latin
Oasis
English, today
oasis
From Latin Oasis, from Ancient Greek Ὄασις, from egx-dem wḥj, from egy wḥꜣt (“oasis, cauldron”), G43-V28-G1-X1:N25 Compare Sahidic ⲟⲩⲁϩⲉ and وَاحَة.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA