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4-letter words (1 found)

AFAR,

3-letter words (4 found)

ARF,FAA,FAR,FRA,

2-letter words (3 found)

AA,AR,FA,

You can make 8 words from afar according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of afar

afar

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /əˈfɑɹ/
  • (UK) IPA(key): /əˈfɑː/
  • Rhymes: (UK) -ɑː

Adverb

afar

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

Usage notes

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

Quotations

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

Translations

Anagrams

  • AFRA, FARA, Fara, RAAF, RAFA

Chuukese

Noun

afar

  1. shoulder (of humans and animals)

Finnish

Etymology

From Afar qafar.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

afar

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

Declension

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.faʁ/

Noun

afar m (uncountable)

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

Adjective

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

  1. (relational) Afar
    les nomades afars ― the Afar nomads
    les tribus afares ― the Afar tribes

Further reading

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

Gothic

Romanization

afar

  1. romanization of 𐌰𐍆𐌰𐍂

Icelandic

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Adverb

afar (not comparable)

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

Etymology 2

Noun

afar

  1. indefinite nominative plural of afi

Further reading

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

Anagrams

  • fara

Italian

Noun

afar m (uncountable)

  1. Afar (language)

Anagrams

  • farà

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

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)

Usage notes

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

References

  • “afar” in The Ordnett Dictionary

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

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

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

Usage notes

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

Old English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑːˌfɑr/

Verb

āfar

  1. singular imperative of āfaran

Old Norse

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈavar/

Adverb

afar

  1. used as an intensive before an adjective or another adverb; very, exceedingly (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Noun

afar m (invariable)

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

Sicilian

Noun

afar m

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

Somali

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Numeral

afar

  1. four

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Noun

afar m (uncountable)

  1. Afar (language)

Swedish

Noun

afar c

  1. the Afar language

Synonyms

  • afariska

Anagrams

  • fara

Tarifit

Alternative forms

  • afā — Central Tarifit
  • afriw

Etymology

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

Noun

afar m (Tifinagh spelling ⴰⴼⴰⵔ, plural afriwen, diminutive tafart or tifrešt)

  1. wing (of a bird, bat, insect)
  2. fin (of a fish)
  3. leaf, foliage
  4. sheet (of paper, metal)
  5. branch (of a tree)

Declension

Related terms

  • tafaruyt (“iris”)

Source: wiktionary.org