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 (ʕafāriyya)
• 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

• Polish: afarski (pl)
• 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)

region

• Polish: Afar (pl) m

Noun

Afar (plural Afars or Afar)

2. 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 (ʕafār), عَفَارِيّ‎ sg (ʕafāriyy)
• French: ^{(please verify)} Afar (fr)
• Polish: Afar (pl) m

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

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Proper noun

Afar n

1. Afar (language)

Anagrams

• raaf

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.faʁ/

• Audio

  (file)

Proper noun

Afar ?

1. Afar (member of the Afar people)

   Territoire français des Afars et des Issas ― French Territory of the Afars and the Issas

Polish

Etymology

Internationalism; compare English Afar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.far/
• Rhymes: -afar
• Syllabification: A‧far

Noun

Afar m pers

1. Afar (person)

Declension

Declension of Afar

	singular	plural
nominative	Afar	Afarzy/Afary (deprecative)
genitive	Afara	Afarów
dative	Afarowi	Afarom
accusative	Afara	Afarów
instrumental	Afarem	Afarami
locative	Afarze	Afarach
vocative	Afarze	Afarzy

Proper noun

Afar m inan

1. Afar (a region of Ethiopia)

Declension

Declension of Afar

	singular
nominative	Afar
genitive	Afaru
dative	Afarowi
accusative	Afar
instrumental	Afarem
locative	Afarze
vocative	Afarze

Derived terms

adjective

• afarski

 

Further reading

• Afar in PWN's encyclopedia