"fan" meaning in Afar

See fan in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈfan/, [ˈfʌn]
Etymology: Cognate with Saho fan. Etymology templates: {{cog|ssy|fan}} Saho fan Head templates: {{head|aa|noun|||||||or||or||or||||or||or||or||or||f10accel-form=p|f10g=?|f11accel-form=p|f11g=?|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=?|f8accel-form=p|f8g=?|f9accel-form=p|f9g=?|g=m|g2=|head=fán}} fán m, {{aa-noun|fán|g=m}} fán m Inflection templates: {{aa-decl|fán|fána|fán|fantí}} Forms: fán [canonical, masculine], no-table-tags [table-tags], fán [absolutive], fána [predicative], fán [subjective], fantí [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], fánal [l-case, with-postposition], fának [k-case, with-postposition], fánat [t-case, with-postposition], fánah [h-case, with-postposition]
  1. middle, centre
    Sense id: en-fan-aa-noun-UtXLFkhR

Postposition

IPA: /ˈfan/, [ˈfʌn] Forms: fán [canonical]
Etymology: Cognate with Saho fan. Etymology templates: {{cog|ssy|fan}} Saho fan Head templates: {{head|aa|postposition|head=fán}} fán
  1. towards; until
    Sense id: en-fan-aa-postp-JmqLhsoi Categories (other): Afar entries with incorrect language header, Afar postpositions Disambiguation of Afar entries with incorrect language header: 24 76 Disambiguation of Afar postpositions: 13 87
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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 2026-06-28 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-06-01 using wiktextract (c6afe2d and 7f4db16). 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.