"can" meaning in Afar

See can in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈħan/, [ˈħʌn]
Etymology: Related to Somali caano, Oromo aannan and Saho xan. Etymology templates: {{cog|so|caano}} Somali caano, {{cog|om|aannan}} Oromo aannan, {{cog|ssy|xan}} Saho xan Head templates: {{head|aa|noun|||||||or||or||or||plural|caanowá|or|canooná|or||or||or||f10accel-form=p|f10g=f|f11accel-form=p|f11g=f|f1accel-form=f|f2accel-form=m|f3accel-form=s|f3g=?|f4accel-form=s|f4g=?|f5accel-form=s|f5g=?|f6accel-form=s|f6g=?|f7accel-form=p|f7g=f|f8accel-form=p|f8g=f|f9accel-form=p|f9g=f|g=m|g2=|head=cán}} cán m (plural caanowá f or canooná f), {{aa-noun|cán|g=m|gpl=f|pl=caanowá|pl2=canooná}} cán m (plural caanowá f or canooná f) Inflection templates: {{aa-decl|cán|cána|cán|cantí}} Forms: cán [canonical, masculine], caanowá [feminine, plural], canooná [feminine, plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], cán [absolutive], cána [predicative], cán [subjective], cantí [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], cánal [l-case, with-postposition], cának [k-case, with-postposition], cánat [t-case, with-postposition], cánah [h-case, with-postposition]
  1. milk

Inflected forms

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      },
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      "form": "caanowá",
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    {
      "form": "canooná",
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        "feminine",
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      ]
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      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "aa-decl",
      "source": "declension",
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cán",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "absolutive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cána",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "predicative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cán",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "subjective"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cantí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
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      ]
    },
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        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cánal",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "l-case",
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cának",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
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      "form": "cánat",
      "source": "declension",
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      ]
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        "21": "or",
        "22": "",
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        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
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        "f11accel-form": "p",
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        "f1accel-form": "f",
        "f2accel-form": "m",
        "f3accel-form": "s",
        "f3g": "?",
        "f4accel-form": "s",
        "f4g": "?",
        "f5accel-form": "s",
        "f5g": "?",
        "f6accel-form": "s",
        "f6g": "?",
        "f7accel-form": "p",
        "f7g": "f",
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "aa",
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        },
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          "langcode": "aa",
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        "milk"
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      "ipa": "/ˈħan/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈħʌn]"
    }
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}
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        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ]
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      "source": "declension",
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        "table-tags"
      ]
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      ]
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        "predicative"
      ]
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        "genitive"
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        "l-case",
        "with-postposition"
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    },
    {
      "form": "cának",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
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    {
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        "22": "",
        "23": "or",
        "24": "",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "9": "or",
        "f10accel-form": "p",
        "f10g": "f",
        "f11accel-form": "p",
        "f11g": "f",
        "f1accel-form": "f",
        "f2accel-form": "m",
        "f3accel-form": "s",
        "f3g": "?",
        "f4accel-form": "s",
        "f4g": "?",
        "f5accel-form": "s",
        "f5g": "?",
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        "f6g": "?",
        "f7accel-form": "p",
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        "f8accel-form": "p",
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        "g2": "",
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈħan/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈħʌn]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "can"
}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Afar dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-03-11 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-03-03 using wiktextract (602557e and 59dc20b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.