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afar

/əˈfɑː//əˈfɑɹ/

afar adverb: at, to, or from a great distance; far away; distantly.

Adverb

afar

  1. At, to, or from a great distance; far away; distantly.
    • He was seen from afar.
    • He loved her from afar.

Proper noun capitalized: Afar

IPA/ˈɑːfɑː(ɹ)/

Afar

  1. A Cushitic language spoken in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti.
  2. A region of Ethiopia.

Noun capitalized: Afar

IPA/ˈɑːfɑː(ɹ)/

Afar (plural Afars or Afar)

  1. A member of the people who speak this language and reside in these regions.
    • [...] ethnic groups, the Afars. The majority of the Somali-speaking Issas, the other main group, do support President Hassan Gouled and his RPP, though the Prime Minister, Barkat Gourad is an Afar himself.1982, Africa
    • Shortly thereafter he broke with Aref and supported independence. Aref was an Afar, and Gouled came from the Issa ethnic group, which for years had been at odds with the Afars.1995, Neil A. Hamilton, Founders of Modern Nations: A Biographical Dictionary

afar meaning in Urdu and Malayalam

afar in Urdu

بہت پرے, دور

afar in Malayalam

അകലെ, ദൂരത്തിൽ, അപ്പുറത്ത്

Examples of afar in a sentence

  • With her shoulder-length platinum blonde hair, she was easy to spot from afar.
  • I heard a cry from afar.
  • At puberty he began to worship an occasional schoolgirl from afar, like most middle-class boys.

All 22 example sentences with afar

Forms of afar

Proper noun
alternative formQafar
Noun
pluralAfars
pluralAfar

Origin of afar

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

Borrowed from Afar qafár.

Words formed from afar

Phrases with afar

Questions about afar

What does afar mean?
Afar means at, to, or from a great distance; far away; distantly.
What is afar in Urdu?
Afar in Urdu is بہت پرے, دور. See Afar meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is afar?
Afar can be an adverb, a proper noun or a noun.
How do you pronounce afar?
Afar is pronounced /əˈfɑɹ/ (US).

Words near afar in the dictionary

  1. afanc
  2. afancs
  3. afandi
  4. afandis
  5. AFAP
  6. afar
  7. Afar Depression
  8. Afar Triangle
  9. Afar Triple Junction
  10. afara
  11. afaras

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: afar (page history and authors); Afar (page history and authors); afar (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); afar (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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