英语词汇“Afar”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

Afar

释义

Afar, n. and a.|ˈɑːfɑː(r)|
[Native name.]
A. n.
a. (A member of) a Cushitic-speaking people of Jibuti and north-eastern Ethiopia.
b. The language of this people.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to this people or their language. Cf. Danakil n. and a.
1856R. F. Burton First Footsteps in E. Afr. iii. 74 The singular is Dankali, the plural Danakil: both words are Arabic, the vernacular name being ‘Afar’ or ‘Afer’, the Somali ‘Afar nimun’.1869Jrnl. R. Geogr. Soc. XXXIX. 188 (title) Narrative of a journey through the Afar country.Ibid. 191 The people of this village are Afar, like the others.Ibid. 209, I do not think we shall do wrong in calling them [sc. a number of small tribes] the Afars, after the language they speak.1910Encycl. Brit. I. 299/2 The Afar region is now partly under Abyssinian and partly under Italian authority. The Afars are also found in considerable numbers in French Somaliland.1932[see Saho n. and a.].1955I. M. Lewis Peoples of Horn of Africa 155 The name ‘Danakil’ first occurs in the 13th century writings of the Arab geographer, Ibn Said, and is currently used by the Abyssinians, Arabs, and Arabized Afar.1969[see Danakil n. and a.].1977Trans. Philol. Soc. 1975 206 As far as ‘Afar is concerned there are only two consonant alternants, -t- and -n-.1978Observer 29 Jan. 10/7 Afar nationalism: the nomadic people of the Danakil plains and the Awash valley do not want their lands to be occupied by the Eritreans, the Somalis or the Amharas.

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