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Afar
Etymology
Univerbation of malciná (“seven”) + tabán (“ten”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /malħiˌnataˈban/
- Hyphenation: mal‧ci‧na‧ta‧ban
Noun
malcina-tabán m
- seventy
Usage notes
- When used as a determiner, the genitive case is used:
- Malcina-tabaníh númu. ― Seventy people.
- When counting, the predicative case is used.
Declension
References
- E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “malcinà-taban”, 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), page 197