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afar adverb [ əˈfɑː ]

• at or to a distance.
• "for months he had loved her from afar"
Origin: Middle English of feor ‘from far’.

Afar noun

• a member of a people living in Djibouti, Eritrea, and Ethiopia.
• the Cushitic language of the Afar, with about 700,000 speakers.

Afar adjective

• relating to the Afar or their language.
Origin: from Afar qafar .


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