Afar

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Telfoon.

Probably borrowed from French téléphone, ultimately from Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle, afar) + φωνή (phōnḗ, voice, sound). Compare Arabic تِلِفُون (tilifūn).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /telˈfoːn/ [tɛlˈfoːn]
  • Hyphenation: tel‧foon

Noun

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telfóon m 

  1. telephone

Declension

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Declension of telfóon
absolutive telfóon
predicative telfóonu
subjective telfóon
genitive telfóon
Postpositioned forms
l-case telfóonul
k-case telfóonuk
t-case telfóonut
h-case telfóonuh

References

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  • 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 383