From Middle English afer, equivalent to a- (“for, on, or of”) +‎ far.

• (US) IPA^(key): /əˈfɑɹ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˈfɑː/

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• Rhymes: (UK) -ɑː

afar

1. At, to, or from a great distance; far away.

   He was seen from afar.

   He loved her from afar.

• Often used with from preceding, or formerly with off following.

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:afar.

• AFRA, FARA, Fara, RAAF, RAFA

afar

1. shoulder (of humans and animals)

From Afar qafar.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑfɑr/, [ˈɑ̝fɑ̝r]
• Rhymes: -ɑfɑr
• Syllabification^(key): a‧far
• Hyphenation^(key): afar

afar

1. Afar (language).
2. An Afar (person).

• IPA^(key): /a.faʁ/

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afar m (uncountable)

1. Afar (language)

   L'afar est parlé par 1,5 millions de locuteurs. ― Afar is spoken by 1.5 million people.

afar (feminine afare, masculine plural afars, feminine plural afares)

1. (relational) Afar

   les nomades afars ― the Afar nomads

   les tribus afares ― the Afar tribes

• “afar”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

afar

1. romanization of 𐌰𐍆𐌰𐍂

• IPA^(key): /ˈaːvar/
• Rhymes: -aːvar

From Old Norse afar, from Proto-Germanic *abraz.

afar (not comparable)

1. very, immensely, ever so, highly, most

   Ég yrði þér afar þakklátur ef þú gerðir þetta fyrir mig.

   I would be most grateful to you if you did this for me.

afar

1. indefinite nominative plural of afi

• “afar” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)
• afar in Hólmarsson et al.: Íslensk-ensk orðabók. 1989.

• fara

afar m (uncountable)

1. Afar (language)

• farà

afar m (definite singular afaren, indefinite plural afarer, definite plural afarene)

1. Afar (language)

   Afar er et kusjittisk språk som snakkes i Afar i Etiopia. (Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia)

   Afar is a Cushitic language spoken in Afar in Ethiopia.

2. Afar (ethnic group)
3. Afar (region)

This is word is only inflected when used in its second sense.

• “afar” in The Ordnett Dictionary

afar m (definite singular afaren, indefinite plural afarar, definite plural afarane)

1. Afar (language)
2. Afar (ethnic group)
3. Afar (region)

This is word is only inflected when used in its second sense.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑːˌfɑr/

āfar

1. singular imperative of āfaran

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ˈavar/

afar

1. used as an intensive before an adjective or another adverb; very, exceedingly (Can we add an example for this sense?) (This entry needs quotations to illustrate usage. If you come across any interesting, durably archived quotes, then please add them!)

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “afar”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

afar m (invariable)

1. (uncountable) Afar (language)
2. one of the Afar, a people of eastern Africa

• “afar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Rendille cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : afar

Inherited from Proto-Somaloid *áfàr (“four”). Cognate with Aweer afar, Somali afar.

• IPA^(key): /ˈáfar/

áfar

1. four

• Heine, B. (1975). Notes on the Rendille language (Kenya), page 215

afar m

1. (uncountable) Afar (language)
2. one of the Afar, a people of eastern Africa

Somali cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : afar     Ordinal : afaraad

• (dialectal) ― affár (Af-Benadiri), aferi (Af-Yibir).

From earlier *ʔafurí. Perhaps related to far (“finger”).

Cognate with Maay afar, Garre afar, Aweer afar, Rendille afar, Jiiddu afar, Daasanach affur, Oromo afur, Afar ferey.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔɑffɑr/

áfar f

1. four

• Puglielli, Annarita; Mansuur, Cabdalla Cumar (2012), “afar”, in Qaamuuska Af-Soomaliga‎^[1], Rome: RomaTrE-Press, →ISBN, page 12

• IPA^(key): /aˈfaɾ/ [aˈfaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧far

afar m (uncountable)

1. Afar (language)

afar c

1. the Afar language

• afariska

• fara

• afriw
• affer (Ayt Iznassen)

Inherited from Proto-Berber *e-făr.

• (Iqeřɛiyen) IPA^(key): [ɛfa(ː)]

afar m (plural afriwen, feminine equivalent tafart, Tifinagh spelling ⴰⴼⴰⵔ)

1. leaf; foilage
2. branch, twig

   Synonyms: fitu, taseṭṭa

3. wing; fin
4. sheet

• Serhoual, Mohammed (2002), Dictionnaire tarifit-français [Tarifit-French dictionary], Tétouan: Université Abdelmalek Essaâdi
• Putten, Marijn van (2018), “Proto-Berber mid vowel harmony”, in Nordic journal of African studies‎^[2], Uppsala: Nordic Africa Research Network, →ISSN

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