Afar

Definition: Afar

Afar

Adverb

1. (old-fashioned) at or from or to a great distance; far; "we traveled afar"; "we could see the ship afar off"; "the Magi came from afar".

Date "afar" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Afar \A*far"\, adverb. [Prefix a- (for on or of) far.]. (Websters 1913)

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
AFAR	English	American Federation for Aging Research	Medicine
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Afar is a Cushitic language spoken in Ethiopia. It is believed to have 1.5 million speakers.

Afar has the form Subject Object Verb. Its speakers have a literacy rate of between one and three per cent.

External link

Ethnologue on Afar

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Distance	Adverb: far off, far away; afar, afar off; off; away; a long way off, a great way off, a good way off; wide away, aloof; wide of, clear of; out of the way, out of reach; abroad, yonder, farther, further, beyond; outre mer, over the border, far and wide, "over the hills and far away "; from pole to pole; (over great space); to the uttermost parts, to the ends of the earth; out of hearing, nobody knows where, a perte de vue, out of the sphere of, wide of the mark; a far cry to.
Foresight	Verb: foresee; look forwards to, look ahead, look beyond; scent from afar; look into the future, pry into the future, peer into the future.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Afar

English words defined with "afar": Apomecometry ♦ Eloign. (references)

Specialty definitions using "afar": Christian ♦ meerschaum ♦ War. (references)

Etymologies containing "afar": Telepheme. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Afar" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Somali (four), Welsh (grief, sorrow).

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	It's what everybody feels about you. It's what I first worshipped you for from afar. (The Philadelphia Story; writing credit: Donald Ogden Stewart) To right the unrightable wrong To love, pure and chaste from afar To try, when your arms are too weary To reach the unreachable star! (Man of La Mancha; writing credit: Dale Wasserman)
Lyrics	They hear a choir sing a song, the music seemed to come from afar. ("Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord"; performing artist: Boney M)
Movie/TV Titles	The Road That Led Afar (1956)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	A Special Delivery: Mother-Daughter Letters From Afar (reference) Adventures in the Bone Trade: The Race to Discover Human Ancestors in Ethiopia's Afar Depression (reference) Death From Afar Vol. II (reference) Death From Afar, Volume V (reference) Niels Henrik Abel and His Times: Called Too Soon by Flames Afar (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Kiri Te Kanawa - Home & Afar (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Digging It Harder From Afar (reference) Journeys Within & Afar (reference) Letters From Afar (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Hither I come from my airy home, afar in the silver moon.Credit: Library of Congress.		Coexistence from afar.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
George Eliot	Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?
	Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Scarlet Letter	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	Their voices came down, afar and indistinctly, from the upper heights where they habitually dwelt.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Afar off the fugitives, stopping for a moment out of breath, heard in the darkness this dismal thunder decreasing.
King Richard III	Shakespeare, William	[Drum afar off] Hark!
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Enjoy wild animals (raccoons, skunks, foxes) from afar. Do not handle, feed, or unintentionally attract wild animals with open garbage cans or litter. (references)
Children	Ethiopia	In the Afar region of the east, young girls continue to be married to much older men, but this traditional practice is coming under greater scrutiny and criticism. (references)
Economic History	Djibouti	Languages: French and Arabic (official); Somali and Afar widely used. (references)
	Djibouti	Djibouti's population of approximately 600,000 is predominantly Muslim and mainly of Somali or Afar origin. (references)
Human Rights	Djibouti	There were no reported cases of rape of Afar women by security forces during the year, and there were no developments in the 1999 rape case of Zenaba Agoden. (references)
Minorities	Djibouti	Discrimination based on ethnicity and clan affiliation limited the role of members of minority groups and clans, particularly the Afar minority ethnic group, in government and politics. (references)
Political Economy	Djibouti	From 1991 to 2000 the Djiboutian government fought a civil war against Afar rebels of the FRUD (Front for the Restoration of the Democratic Unity). (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	MEERSCHAUM, n. (Literally, seafoam, and by many erroneously supposed to be made of it.) A fine white clay, which for convenience in coloring it brown is made into tobacco pipes and smoked by the workmen engaged in that industry. The purpose of coloring it has not been disclosed by the manufacturers. There was a youth (you've heard before, This woeful tale, may be), Who bought a meerschaum pipe and swore That color it would he! He shut himself from the world away, Nor any soul he saw. He smoke by night, he smoked by day, As hard as he could draw. His dog died moaning in the wrath Of winds that blew aloof; The weeds were in the gravel path, The owl was on the roof. "He's gone afar, he'll come no more," The neighbors sadly say. And so they batter in the door To take his goods away. Dead, pipe in mouth, the youngster lay, Nut-brown in face and limb. "That pipe's a lovely white," they say, "But it has colored him!" The moral there's small need to sing -- 'Tis plain as day to you: Don't play your game on any thing That is a gamester too. Martin Bulstrode
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Afar" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Afar" is used about 157 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adverb (general)	100%	157	25,059

Expressions using "afar": afar off ♦ from afar ♦ keep afar. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "afar": afar-inhabited.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "afar"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		ver (away, distant, far, far away, remote, remotely). (various references)

Albanian		larg (afield, apart, away, clear, distant, far, far away, far off, off, wide). (various references)

Arabic		‏من بعد (remote), ‏بعيدا (apart, apart from, away, far, off, onward, past). (various references)

Bulgarian		надалеч (aloof, apart, clear, distantly, far), далеч (afield, away, deep, distantly, far, far and away, far away, wide). (various references)

Catalan		lluny (away, far, far away, remotely). (various references)

Chinese		在远处. (various references)

Czech		v dálce. (various references)

Dutch		afgelegen (distant, far, far away, remote, remotely), achteraf (afterwards, far, far away, next, out of the way, remotely, subsequently), ver (distant, far, far away, incidental, long, remote, remotely, side). (various references)

Farsi		ازدور, دورادور. (various references)

German		weit (a long way, ample, away, big, broad, by far, capacious, dilated, distant, elastic, extensive, far, far away, great, large, long, loose, loose-fitting, open, remote, remotely, roomy, spacious, vast, wide, widely), fern (aloof, distant, far, far off, faraway, long distance, remote). (various references)

Greek		σε απόσταση (afield, aloof), μακρυά (away). (various references)

Hebrew		מ� �'�" (aloof from, antagonizer, aside, at a distance, off), למרחקים (far and wide), �"רחק (far, far away, far off, stand clear). (various references)

Hungarian		távol (afield, aloof, asunder, away, away from, distant, far, off, to be wide of the mark, to keep back, to keep clear of sg, to keep off, wide), messze (away, by all odds, distant, far, far away, far off, off, way, wide). (various references)

Indonesian		kejauhan (too far), jauh (away, distant, far, remote). (various references)

Italian		lontano (a long way, absent, aloof, apart, away, back, distant, distantly, faint, far, far afield, far off, faraway, in the distance, off, remote, slight, way, wide). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		遙遙 (all the way, from afar, over a great distance), 遙々 (all the way, from afar, over a great distance), 遥遥 (all the way, at a great distance, from afar), 遥拝 (worshipping from afar), � 出 (going afar), 望見　 (watching from afar), 望見 (watching from afar). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ぼうけ�" (adventure, autopsy, necropsy, risk, venture, watching from afar), ようはい (worshipping from afar), はるばる (all the way, at a great distance, from afar, over a great distance), とおで (going afar). (various references)

Korean		멀리 (Far, Farther, Farthest). (various references)

Manx		foddey magh, foddey jeh (distant, far away, remote), foddey (distance, far, long, longterm, markedly, remote, remotely), er-foddey. (various references)

Pig Latin		afaray

Portuguese		longe (afield, away, far, far and away, faraway, off, outlying, way), � distância (aloof, away, remote). (various references)

Romanian		aproape (about, all but, almost, anigh, approximately, as good as, at one's elbow, at the point of, close, close by, close upon, far, far away, hard, immediately, just about, little or nothing, near, near by, nearby, nearly, neighbor, neighbour, nigh, remotely, some, soon, thereabouts), la distanţã (aloof, back, distantly). (various references)

Russian		вдалеке (afar off, afield), далеко (a long way, a long ways, away, away off, far, far away, far off, widely). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		udaljeno (away, remotely), iz daljine, iz daleka (afar: from afar, from far away), daleko (aloof, away, far, far and away, off, remotely). (various references)

Spanish		lejos (aloof, away, far, far away, remotely, wide). (various references)

Swedish		fjärran (distance, distant, far, far away, far flung, remote). (various references)

Turkish		uzaktan (distant, from a distance, kissing), uzakta (aloof, at a distance, away, clear, distant, far, far away, far off, in the distance, insofar, off, out), uzak (a long way off, aloof, away, back, distant, far, far away, far off, faraway, insofar, off, out of the way, outlandish, outlying, recluse, remote, standoffish). (various references)

Ukranian		віддалік (aloof, away, back), вдалині (beyond), здаля (away), здалека, далеко (a long way, afield, away, far, far away, far out, way, wide, widely). (various references)

Vietnamese		xa (away, car, distant, far-flung, remote, removed), cách xa, ở xa (beyond, clear, outlying). (various references)

Welsh		ymhell (far, far afield), pell (aloof, distant, far, long, remote), hirbell. (various references)

Zulu		kude (away, far, far away, remotely). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Avestan	200-600	vish. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Mark Chapter 5, Verse 6
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Idwn de ton ihsoun apo makroqen edramen kai prosekunhsen autw
Latin	405	Vulgate	Videns autem Iesum a longe cucurrit et adoravit eum
Old English	990	West Saxon	Soðlice þa he þane hælend feorren ge-seah.he arn & hine ge-bæd.
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	And he siy Jhesus afer, and ran, and worschipide hym.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	When he had spied Iesus afarre of he rane and worshipped him
Jacobean English	1611	King James	But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him,
Victorian English	1833	Webster	But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshiped him,
Basic English	1964	Ogden	And when he saw Jesus from far off, he went quickly to him and gave him worship;
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Mark Chapter 5, Verse 6
Bulgarian	И всякога, нощем и денем, в гробищата и по бърдата, той викаше и се изпосичаше с камъни.
Cebuano	Ug sa pagkaalinggat niya kang Jesus gikan sa layo, siya midalagan ngadto kaniya ug misimba kaniya,
Chinese	他 � � 的看見耶穌、就跑過去拜他．
Croatian	Kad izdaleka opazi Isusa, dotrèi i pokloni mu se,
Danish	Men da han så Jesus. Langt borte, løb han hen og kastede sig ned for ham
Dutch	Als hij nu Jezus van verre zag, liep hij toe, en aanbad Hem.
Finnish	Kun hän kaukaa näki Jeesuksen, juoksi hän ja kumartui maahan hänen eteensä
French	Ayant vu Jésus de loin, il accourut, se prosterna devant lui,
Gaelic	`Sa faicinn Iosa fad as, ruith e, `s thug e aoradh dha;
German	Da er aber Jesum sah von ferne, lief er zu und fiel vor ihm nieder, schrie laut und sprach:
Haitian Creole	Li te yon bèl distans lè li wè Jezi. Li kouri, li vin mete ajenou devan li.
Hungarian	Mikor pedig Jézust távolról meglátta, oda futamodék, és elébe borula,
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Ketika dari jauh ia melihat Yesus datang, ia berlari-lari lalu sujud di hadapan Yesus.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Akan tetapi, setelah dilihatnya Yesus dari jauh, berlarilah ia datang menyembah Dia,
Italian	Visto Gesù da lontano, accorse, gli si gettò ai piedi,
Korean	그 가 멀 리 서 예 수 를 보 � 달 � � 와 � � 하 며
Latvian	Bet ieraudzîjis Jçzu tâlumâ, tas pieskrçja un pielûdza Viòu.
Maori	A, i tona kitenga i a Ihu i tawhiti, oma ana ia, koropiko ana ki a ia.
Modern Greek	Ιδων δε τον Ιησουν απο μακροθεν, εδραμε και προσεκυνησεν αυτον,
Norwegian	Og da han så Jesus langt borte, løp han til og falt ned for ham,
Portuguese	Vendo, pois, de longe a Jesus, correu e adorou-o;
Rumanian	Cknd a vqzut pe Isus de departe, a alergat, I s`a knchinat,
Russian	ХЧЙ�"ЕЧ ЦЕ йЙУХУБ ЙЪ�"БМЕЛБ, � ТЙ�'ЕЦБМ Й � ПЛМПОЙМУС еНХ,
Shuar	Tura yajayan Wáiniak Jesusan tseke tarimiayi; tura tikishmatramiayi.
Spanish	Cuando vio a Jesús desde lejos, corrió y le adoró.
Swahili	Alipomwona Yesu kwa mbali, alimkimbilia, akamwinamia
Swedish	När denne nu fick se Jesus på avstånd, skyndade han fram och föll ned för honom
Thai	ครั้นเขาเห็นพระเยซูแต่ไกล เขาก็วิ่งเข้ามานมัสการพระองค์
Ukrainian	А коли він Ісуса побачив здалека, то прибіг, і вклонився Йому,
Uma	Kampohilo-na Yesus ngkai molaa, pokeno-nami hilou mperapai-i, pai' -i mowingkotu' hi nyanyoa-na mponyompa-i.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "afar": afars. (additional references)
	Words containing "afar": safari, safaried, safariing, safaris, seafarer, seafarers, seafaring, seafarings. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Afar" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aaaarg, aaf, aar, Aarg, Aarp, abaar, abar, acar, Adaro, Aear, afa, afad, afair, afal, afan, Afap, Afaq, afare, afari, afarm, afars, Afdal, afear, Afej, afen, aferm, afew, afex, affa, Affan, affar, affare, affe, affear, affer, afi, Afic, Afif, Aflaq, A'flaq, afoe, afog, afor, afora, Afori, afr, afra, Afrah, afsat, afta, aftar, aftr, afu, Afuu, Afzal, agfas, Ahar, Ajfan, akar, alar, alfar, Alfgar, amar, Amfar, anar, apar, arar, Arfer, asar, Asfar, Asfaw, Atar, aufur, avar, avare, awar, ayar, azar, Azfar, Bakfark, efa, efar, efor, efra, eufa, faar, fafir, falar, hafa, Hafar, ifa, ifar, Jafar, kfar, Naffah, ofir, Ofra, Paffard, safar, Safdar, Takfir, ufar. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "afar" (pronounced ufÄ"r)
3	-f Ä" r	far.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-f-r"
	-1 letter: arf, far.
	-2 letters: aa, ar, fa.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-f-r"
	+1 letter: afars, farad.
	+2 letters: afeard, affair, affray, afraid, agrafe, carafe, farads, farfal, farina, fracas, fraena, raffia, safari, zaffar.
	+3 letters: abfarad, afeared, affaire, affairs, affrays, agrafes, agraffe, airfare, alforja, carafes, carfare, earflap, fabular, facular, fairway, fanfare, faraday, faradic, faraway, farfals, farinas, farinha, farrago, fermata, filaria, flatcar, fractal, haftara, parfait, raffias, ratafee, ratafia, rufiyaa, safaris, warfare, zaffars.
	+4 letters: aardwolf, abfarads, affaires, affrayed, affrayer, aftertax, agraffes, aircraft, airfares, airframe, alforjas, artefact, artifact, carfares, defrayal, earflaps, fairlead, fairways, falderal, familiar, fanfares, fanfaron, faradaic, faradays, faradise, faradism, faradize, farcical, farfalle, farinhas, farmable, farmhand, farmland, farmyard, farragos, fermatas, filariae, filarial, filarian, flagrant, flancard, flatcars, flatware, foofaraw, foramina, fracases, fractals, fragrant, framable, frittata, fumarase, fumarate, furcraea, graftage, haftarah, haftaras, haftarot, haftorah, hausfrau, paraffin, paraform, parfaits, parfocal, pratfall, raftsman, rainfall, ratafees, ratafias, safaried, safranin, seacraft, seafarer, taffarel, taffrail, unafraid, warcraft, warfares, warfarin, wayfarer, wharfage.
	+5 letters: affrayers, affraying, affricate, aforesaid, aftercare, afterclap, aftermath, afterward, airframes, alfilaria, allograft, antidraft, antifraud, artefacts, artifacts, autograft, barefaced, breakfast, broadleaf, cafeteria, cafetoria, campcraft, craftsman, defrayals, draftable, draftsman, fabricant, fabricate, factorage, factorial, fairleads, fairyland, falderals, fallalery, familiars, fanfarons, faradised, faradises, faradisms, faradized, faradizes, farandole, farfalles, farmhands, farmlands, farmstead, farmyards, farragoes, favorable, favorably, fibromata, flagellar, flagrance, flagrancy, flancards, flashcard, flatwares, foofaraws, foraminal, fragrance, fragrancy, frambesia, frameable, franglais, frankable, fraternal, frittatas, fumarases, fumarates, furcraeas, graftages, haftarahs, haftaroth, haftorahs, handcraft, hausfraus, mainframe, marrowfat, paraffins, paraforms, picofarad, pratfalls, rafflesia, rainfalls, rauwolfia, safariing, safeguard, safranine, safranins, sassafras, saxifrage, seacrafts, seafarers, seafaring, sharifian, solfatara, suffragan, sugarloaf, taffarels, taffrails, ultrafast, ultrasafe, warcrafts, warfarins, waterfall, waterleaf, wayfarers, wayfaring, wharfages.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 66 61 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

⁼

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.- ..-. .- .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01100110 01100001 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#102 &#97 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0066 0061 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day
afar	38
afar tribe	18
afar region	17
afar ethiopia	5
afar tall	5
afar people	4
afar iraq tall	4
afar from gift	3
afar danakil	2
afar girl	2
afar triangle	2
afar away far far way way	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Afar

Definition: Afar

Afar

Adverb

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Afar

AFAR

Specialty Definition: Afar language

Synonyms within Context: Afar

Distance

Foresight

Crosswords: Afar

Modern Usage: Afar

Screenplays

Lyrics

Movie/TV Titles

Commercial Usage: Afar

Books

Theater & Movies

Music

Image Slideshow: Afar

Illustrations:Afar

Photo Album: Afar

Familiar Quotations: Afar

George Eliot

Use in Literature: Afar

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

King Richard III

Shakespeare, William

Non-Fiction Usage: Afar

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Usage Frequency: Afar

Expressions: Afar

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Afar

afar

afar tribe

afar region

afar ethiopia

afar tall

afar people

afar iraq tall

afar from gift

afar danakil

afar girl

afar triangle

afar away far far way way

Modern Translations: Afar

Afrikaan

Albanian

Arabic

Bulgarian

Catalan

Chinese

Czech

Dutch

Farsi

German

Greek

Hebrew

Hungarian

Indonesian

Italian

Japanese Kanji

Japanese Katakana

Korean

Manx

Pig Latin

Portuguese

Romanian

Russian

Serbo-Croatian

Spanish

Swedish

Turkish

Ukranian

Vietnamese

Welsh

Illustrations:
Afar