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Saffar

Saffar proper noun: a surname from Arabic.

saffar: a surname from Arabic
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Proper noun

Saffar (countable and uncountable, plural Saffars)

  1. A surname from Arabic.
  2. Upsilon Andromedae b, an exoplanet approximately 44 light-years away from the Sun in the constellation of Andromeda.

Forms of Saffar

pluralSaffars

Origin of Saffar

Borrowed from Arabic صَفَّار (ṣaffār). The exoplanet is named after 11th-century astronomer Ibn as-Saffar of Muslim Spain.

Questions about Saffar

What does Saffar mean?
Saffar means a surname from Arabic.
What part of speech is Saffar?
Saffar is a proper noun.

Words near Saffar in the dictionary

  1. safeword
  2. safeworded
  3. safewording
  4. safewords
  5. Saffa
  6. Saffar
  7. Saffarian
  8. Saffarians
  9. Saffarid
  10. Saffarids
  11. Saffars

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