different between ajar vs afar

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??d????/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??d????/

Etymology 1

From Middle English ajar, on char (“on [the] turn”), from on (“on”) + char (“turn, occasion”), from Old English ?ierr, cyrr (“turn”), from Old English ?ierran (“to turn, convert”), equivalent to a- +? char. Akin to Dutch akerre, kier (“ajar”), German kehren (“to turn”). See char.

Adverb

ajar (not comparable)

1. Slightly turned or opened.

Translations

Adjective

ajar (comparative more ajar, superlative most ajar)

1. Slightly turned or opened.

Translations

Verb

ajar (third-person singular simple present ajars, present participle ajarring, simple past and past participle ajarred)

1. (rare, perhaps nonstandard) To turn or open slightly; to become ajar or to cause to become ajar; to be or to hang ajar.
   • 1970, John H. Evans, Mercer County law journal, Volume 10,

     A plainclothes detective knocked on a slightly ajarred door.

Etymology 2

a- (“in, at”) +? jar (“discord, disagreement”)

Adverb

ajar (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Out of harmony.
2. Being at variance or in contradiction to something.
   • 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, II.14:

     There is a sort of unexpressed concern, / A kind of shock that sets one's heart ajar […] .

Translations

Verb

ajar (third-person singular simple present ajars, present participle ajarring, simple past and past participle ajarred)

1. (rare, perhaps nonstandard) To show variance or contradiction with something; to be or cause to be askew.
   • 1907, The English Illustrated Magazine, Volume 36,

     It clean deafened the two of us, and set all the crockery ware ajarring ; and when the neighbours heard it they came running into the street to see who was getting hurt.

Translations

Anagrams

• raja

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay ajar, from Sanskrit ?????? (?c?rya, “teacher, master”), likely derived from ???? (?c?ra, “conduct, behavior”). Doublet of acara, acarya, and hajar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.d??ar/

Verb

ajar (used in the form mengajar)

1. to teach

Conjugation

This verb has irregular forms when affixed to ber- and per- which resulted on initial -l- on belajar and pelajar (also an noun), otherwise conjugated regularly like intransitive meng- verbs. Some forms of the locative does not exist.

Derived terms

Further reading

• “ajar” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Malay

Etymology

From Sanskrit ?????? (?c?rya, “teacher, master”).

Verb

ajar (Jawi spelling ????)

1. to teach

Derived terms

Further reading

• “ajar” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Spanish

Alternative forms

• ahajar (obsolete)

Etymology

From older ahajar, from Old Spanish haja, probably from Vulgar Latin *fallia (“defect”), from Latin fall?re.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?xa?/, [a?xa?]

Verb

ajar (first-person singular present ajo, first-person singular preterite ajé, past participle ajado)

1. (transitive and reflexive) to fade, wither

   Synonym: marchitar

Conjugation

Further reading

• “ajar” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

From Middle English afer, equivalent to a- (“for, on, or of”) +? far.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??fa?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /??f??/

Adverb

afar

1. At, to, or from a great distance; far away.

   He was seen from afar.

   He loved her from afar.

Usage notes

• Often used with from preceding, or formerly with off following.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:afar.

Translations

Anagrams

• AFRA, FARA, Fara, RAAF, RAFA

Chuukese

Noun

afar

1. shoulder (of humans and animals)

Finnish

Noun

afar

1. Afar (language).
2. An Afar (person).

Declension

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.fa?/

Noun

afar m (uncountable)

1. Afar (language)

   L'afar est parlé par 1,5 millions de locuteurs.

Adjective

afar (feminine singular afare, masculine plural afars, feminine plural afares)

1. Related to the Afar people.

   Les nomades afars.

   Les tribus afares.

Further reading

• “afar” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Gothic

Romanization

afar

1. Romanization of ????????????????

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse afar, from Proto-Germanic *abraz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?var/
• Rhymes: -a?var

Adverb

afar (not comparable)

1. very, immensely, ever so, highly, most

Noun

afar

1. indefinite nominative plural of afi

Further reading

• afar in Icelandic dictionaries at ISLEX
• afar in Hólmarsson et al.: Íslensk-ensk orðabók. 1989.

Anagrams

• fara

Italian

Noun

afar m (uncountable)

1. Afar (language)

Anagrams

• farà

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

afar m (definite singular afaren, indefinite plural afarer, definite plural afarene)

1. Afar (language)

   Afar er et kusjittisk språk som snakkes i Afar i Etiopia. (Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia)

   Afar is a Cushitic language spoken in Afar in Ethiopia.

2. Afar (ethnic group)
3. Afar (region)

Usage notes

This is word is only inflected when used in its second sense.

References

• “afar” in The Ordnett Dictionary

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

afar m (definite singular afaren, indefinite plural afarar, definite plural afarane)

1. Afar (language)
2. Afar (ethnic group)
3. Afar (region)

Usage notes

This is word is only inflected when used in its second sense.

Old Norse

Adverb

afar

1. used as an intensive before an adjective or another adverb; very, exceedingly

References

• afar in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Portuguese

Noun

afar m (plural afar)

1. (uncountable) Afar (language)
2. one of the Afar, a people of eastern Africa

Somali

Numeral

afar

1. four

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?fa?/, [a?fa?]

Noun

afar m (uncountable)

1. Afar (language)

Swedish

Noun

afar ?

1. the Afar language

Synonyms

• afariska

Anagrams

• fara