malyuun

Afar

Afar numbers ^(edit)

←  1	[a], [b] ←  1,000	1,000,000 (106)	1,000,000,000 (109)  →
Cardinal: malyúun

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَلْيُون (malyūn), from Italian milione.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /malˈjuːn/, [mʌlˈjuːn]
• Hyphenation: malyuun

Noun

malyúun m 

1. million

Usage notes

• When used as a determiner, the genitive case is used:

  Malyúun númu. ― A million people.

• When counting, the predicative case is used.

Declension

Declension of malyúun
absolutive	malyúun
predicative	malyúunu
subjective	malyúun
genitive	malyúun
Postpositioned forms l-case malyúunul k-case malyúunuk t-case malyúunut h-case malyúunuh

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 197