Afar

Afar

See also: afar, àfar, and afâr

English

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Alternative forms

• Qafar

Proper noun

Afar

1. A Cushitic language spoken in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti.
2. A region of Ethiopia.

Derived terms

• Afar Depression
• Afar Triangle

Translations

language

Afar: Qafár af Afrikaans: Afar Albanian: Gjuha afare Alemannic German: Afar Amharic: አፋርኛ (ʾäfarña) Arabic: عَفَارِيَّة‎ f (ʿafāriyya) Armenian: աֆար (afar), աֆարերեն (hy) (afareren), դանակիլ (hy) (danakil) Basque: afariko Breton: afareg Catalan: àfar (ca) Corsican: afar (co) Czech: afarština Dutch: Afar (nl) n, Danakil n Esperanto: afara lingvo Finnish: afar (fi), afarin kieli French: afar (fr) f Galician: afar (gl) m German: Afar (de), Danakil Irish: Afáiris f Italian: afar (it) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: afar (ku) Latvian: afāru valoda f Lithuanian: afar (lt), afarų (lt), danakilų (lt), afarų kalba (lt), danakilų kalba (lt) Malay: bahasa Afar Norwegian: afar (no), afarsk Nynorsk: afar Portuguese: afar (pt) m Romanian: afară (ro) f Russian: афа́рский язы́к (ru) m (afárskij jazýk), афа́рский (ru) m (afárskij) (язы́к), данаки́льский язы́к m (danakílʹskij jazýk), данаки́льский m (danakílʹskij) (язы́к) Serbo-Croatian: afar, afarski Sicilian: afar (scn) Spanish: afar (es) Swedish: afar (sv) Tigrinya: ዓፋር (ʿafar) Turkish: Afarca (tr) Upper Sorbian: Afaršćina West Frisian: Afarsk (fy) n Wolof: afar (wo)

Noun

Afar (plural Afars or Afar)

1. A member of the people who speak this language and reside in these regions.
   • 1982, Africa:

     [...] ethnic groups, the Afars. The majority of the Somali-speaking Issas, the other main group, do support President Hassan Gouled and his RPP, though the Prime Minister, Barkat Gourad is an Afar himself.

   • 1995, Neil A. Hamilton, Founders of Modern Nations: A Biographical Dictionary:

     Shortly thereafter he broke with Aref and supported independence. Aref was an Afar, and Gouled came from the Issa ethnic group, which for years had been at odds with the Afars.

Translations

member of this people

Arabic: عَفَار‎ m pl (ʿafār), عَفَارِيّ‎ sg (ʿafāriyy) French: (please verify) Afar (fr)

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Afar terms
• Afar language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Afar people on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Afar edition of Wiktionary
• ISO 639-1 code aa, ISO 639-3 code aar (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Afar, aar ⁠

Anagrams

• AFRA, FARA, Fara, RAAF, RAFA

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Afar n

1. Afar (language)

Anagrams

• raaf

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French

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Afar ?

1. a member of the Afar people

   Territoire français des Afars et des Issas ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)