alfi

Afar

Afar numbers ^(edit)

←  1	←  100	1,000	1,000,000 (106)  →	1,000,000,000 (109)  →
Cardinal: álfi, (obsolete) kúum

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic أَلْف (ʔalf).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈalfi/, [ˈʔʌlfɪ]
• Hyphenation: al‧fi

Noun

álfi m (plural alfitté f)

1. thousand

Usage notes

• When used as a determiner, the genitive case is used:

  Alfí númu. ― A thousand people.

• When counting, the predicative case is used.

Declension

Declension of álfi
absolutive	álfi
predicative	álfi
subjective	alfí
genitive	alfí
Postpositioned forms l-case álfil k-case álfik t-case álfit h-case álfih

Synonyms

• (obsolete) kúum

References

• E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “àlfi”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2004) Parlons Afar: Langue et Culture, L'Hammartan, →ISBN, page 77
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 197

Old Norse

Noun

alfi

1. dative singular of alfr