From Egyptian (1610s), from Egyptian 'wḥ3t' ("oasis, cauldron").
A fertile spot in a desert, where water is found; a pleasant or peaceful area in the midst of a difficult or hectic place.
From Latin 'oasis,' from Greek 'óasis' (ὄασις), from Egyptian 'wḥ3t' (oasis, cauldron), from Demotic Egyptian. The word traveled from the Saharan landscape through Greek geographical writing into Latin and then to modern European languages. Herodotus used the word in the 5th century BCE when describing Egyptian geography. The fact that this word survived from ancient Egyptian — a language dead for over a millennium
'Oasis' is one of the very few English words that traces back to ancient Egyptian rather than Indo-European or Semitic roots. It entered Greek through Herodotus, who visited Egypt around 450 BCE. The word has outlived the entire ancient Egyptian civilization — the language died out over 1,500