"num" meaning in Afar

See num in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈnum/, [ˈnʊm]
Etymology: Cognate with Saho numa (“woman”), Somali nin (“man”). Etymology templates: {{cog|ssy|numa|t=woman}} Saho numa (“woman”), {{cog|so|nin|t=man}} Somali nin (“man”) Head templates: {{head|aa|noun|||||||or||or||or||plural|mára|or|marí|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=m|f8accel-form=p|f8g=f|f9accel-form=p|f9g=f|g=m|g2=|head=núm}} núm m (plural mára m or marí f), {{aa-noun|núm|g=m|gpl=m|gpl2=f|pl=mára|pl2=marí}} núm m (plural mára m or marí f) Inflection templates: {{aa-decl|núm|númu|núm|numtín}} Forms: núm [canonical, masculine], mára [masculine, plural], marí [feminine, plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], núm [absolutive], númu [predicative], núm [subjective], numtín [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], númul [l-case, with-postposition], númuk [k-case, with-postposition], númut [t-case, with-postposition], númuh [h-case, with-postposition]
  1. man, male
    Sense id: en-num-aa-noun-6yx-fOCd Categories (other): Male Disambiguation of Male: 97 2 1
  2. person, human being
    Sense id: en-num-aa-noun-jBXCRHqL Categories (other): Afar entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Afar entries with incorrect language header: 12 69 19
  3. mankind, humanity
    Sense id: en-num-aa-noun-YWj5UxLP
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: numóyta [diminutive] Related terms: labhá (english: men)
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      "form": "no-table-tags",
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        "table-tags"
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      ]
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "english": "men",
      "translation": "men",
      "word": "labhá"
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          "text": "Too waqdi Alimelek deqsita num, lab-xayloh nammay kee barra gabat hayya heeh, Yuudâ-baaxok Beetlacam deqsitta magaalak Mooyab deqsita marih baaxo fan dulah gexe.",
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          "man",
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    {
      "ipa": "[ˈnʊm]"
    }
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}
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        "table-tags"
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          "númuh",
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈnum/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈnʊm]"
    }
  ],
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}

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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 2026-07-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-07-06 using wiktextract (e62056b and e7887d5). 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.