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Afar
Etymology
From Proto-Cushitic, from Proto-Afroasiatic. Cognates include Arabic أَرْبَعَة (ʔarbaʕa), Somali áfar, Oromo afur and Saho afar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /afːaˈra/
- Hyphenation: af‧fa‧ra
Noun
affará
- genitive of feréy, faréy
References
- E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “ferey”, 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), Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 195