Afar

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ʕaːˈda/ [ʕaːˈdʌ]
  • Hyphenation: qaa‧da

Noun

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qaadá f (plural qaadoodí f)

  1. forehead
  2. culture
  3. tradition, custom, habit
  4. (Northern dialects) back (body part)

Declension

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Declension of qaadá
absolutive qaadá
predicative qaadá
subjective qaadá
genitive qaadá
Postpositioned forms
l-case qaadál
k-case qaadák
t-case qaadát
h-case qaadáh

References

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  • E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “qaada”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)