Definition of Afars

1. afar [n] - See also: afar

Lexicographical Neighbors of Afars

aetiopathogenesis
aetiopathogenetic
aetites
aetosaur
aetosaurs
aett
aeviternity
afa
afald
afamelanotide
afamin
afara
afaras
afare
afars (current term)
afawld
afear
afeard
afeard(p)
afeared
afeared(p)
afearing
afears
afebrile
afelimomab
afetal
aff
aff'd
aff'g

Literary usage of Afars

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ethnology by Augustus Henry Keane (1896)
"... Hamites of the Egyptian records—The "New Race" in the Nile Valley—The Eastern Hamites: afars; ..."

2. Memoirs of Marmontel, Written by Himself: Containing His Literary and by Jean François Marmontel (1807)
"He began by ordering the retreat of those troops that were stationed in the Champ-de-afars. But no orders were given for the departure of the other camps ..."

3. The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society ...: General index to the by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Hume Greenfield, Henry Walter Bates (1869)
"When thinking over the religion of the afars one can hardly be surprised, ... We must say a few more words on the character and spirit of the afars. ..."

4. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1869)
"Nominally the afars are Mussulmans in religion and subjects of the ... Yet, in the whole of Africa, there is not a race more barbarous than the afars. ..."

5. Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1869)
"Nominally the afars are Mussulmans in religion and subjects of the ... Yet, in the whole of Africa, there is not a race more barbarous than the afars. ..."

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