malyuun

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Afar

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Afar numbers (edit)
 ←  1 [a], [b] ←  1,000 1,000,000 (106) 1,000,000,000 (109)  → 
    Cardinal: malyúun

Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic مَلْيُون (malyūn), from Italian milione.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /malˈjuːn/ [mʌlˈjuːn]
  • Hyphenation: mal‧yuun

Noun

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malyúun m 

  1. million

Usage notes

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  • When used as a determiner, the genitive case is used:
    Malyúun númu.A million people.
  • When counting, the predicative case is used.

Declension

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Declension of malyúun
absolutive malyúun
predicative malyúunu
subjective malyúun
genitive malyúun
Postpositioned forms
l-case malyúunul
k-case malyúunuk
t-case malyúunut
h-case malyúunuh

References

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  • 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

Somali

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Numeral

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malyuun

  1. million