Afar

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Afar /ˈɑːfɑː/

▶noun (pl. same or Afars)

• 1 a member of a people living in Djibouti and NE Ethiopia.

• 2 the Cushitic language of the Afars.

– origin from Afar qafar.

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afar/əˈfɑː(r)/

▶adverb chiefly literary at or to a distance.

– origin ME of feor ‘from far’.