afar
Portuguese, noun/aˈfa(ʁ)/
afar is spelled A-F-A-R (4 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written Portuguese, the 122,069th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Afar is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “Afar (language)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “língua cuchítica oriental falada na Etiópia, Eritreia e Djibuti”.
What does afar mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineAfar (language)
- 2
masculineone of the Afar, a people of eastern Africa
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. língua cuchítica oriental falada na Etiópia, Eritreia e Djibuti
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce afar?
- Brazil /aˈfa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [aˈfa(h)]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is afar in Portuguese?
afar appears about once in every 17 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).