afar
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(ə-fär') 
adv.
From, at, or to a great distance: saw it afar off; traveled afar.
n.
A long distance: Tales from afar.
adv.
From, at, or to a great distance: saw it afar off; traveled afar.
n.
A long distance: Tales from afar.
[Middle English afer, from on fer, far, and from of fer, from afar, from Old English feor, far. See far.]
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Afar may refer to:
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- Afar people, ethnic group principally residing in Djibouti, Eritrea and Ethiopia
- Afar Insurgency, alternative name for the Djiboutian Civil War of November 1991-December 1994
- Afar Triangle, a geological depression near the Horn of Africa
- Afar Region, territory in Ethiopia
- Afar Triple Junction, a convergence of tectonic plates
- Afar language, one of the East Cushitic languages
- Afar Desert, desert in northern Ethiopia
- Afar Communications, Inc., a US based company with offices in Santa Barbara, California
- Afar Explorer, a US based company with interests in the Ogaden Basin of Ethiopia
- Afar (magazine), a US travel magazine, published in San Francisco
- Tal Afar, in Iraq
- Tel Afar District, region in Iraq
- Aussa Sultanate, also known as the Afar Sultanate
- Afars and Issas, former French Djibouti
- The Afar Liberation Front
- Saho-Afar languages
- From Afar, an album by the Finnish band Ensiferum
- A Combo Rangers character
- At, to, or from a great distance; far away
The acronym AFAR refers to the following:
- Association for Asian Research
- American Foundation for Addiction Research
- Association Francaise des Affaires Réglementaires
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Afar
Dansk (Danish)
adv. - fjernt, langt borte
n. - borte, det fjerne
Français (French)
adv. - au loin, à distance
n. - longue distance
Deutsch (German)
adv. - weit entfernt
n. - in der Entfernung, von weitem
Ελληνική (Greek)
adv. - μακριά, πέρα
Português (Portuguese)
adv. - longe, à distância
Русский (Russian)
вдалеке, издалека
Español (Spanish)
adv. - lejano, lejos, remoto
n. - lugar lejano o remoto
Svenska (Swedish)
adv. - fjärran
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
在远方, 遥远地, 从远方, 远方
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adv. - 在遠方, 遙遠地, 從遠方
n. - 遠方
한국어 (Korean)
adv. - 멀리
n. - 먼 곳
日本語 (Japanese)
adv. - はるかに, 遠くに
العربيه (Arabic)
(ظرف) بعيدا
עברית (Hebrew)
adv. - במרחק, ממרחקים
n. - מרחק רב
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