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Afar
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic يَا اللّٰه (yā allāh, “Oh God”). The vocative meaning was lost.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈjalːa/
- Hyphenation: Yal‧la
Proper noun
Yálla m
- God
Saytun Qhuraan kee kay maqnah tarjamaty Qafar afal tani [The clear Qur'an and its explanation translated into the Afar language], Suurat Al-Faatica, verse 1:Fulte Racmattaay, Gunê Racmattale Yallih Migaaqal Qimbisa.- I begin in the name of God, who gives mercy and surpasses mercy.
Declension
| Declension of Yálla
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| absolutive
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Yálla
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| predicative
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Yálla
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| subjective
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Yallí
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| genitive
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Yallí
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| vocative
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Yalláw
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Synonyms
References
- E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “Yalla”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
- Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie), Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)