"Afroasiatic" meaning in English

See Afroasiatic in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Etymology: From Afro- + Asiatic. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|Afro|Asiatic}} Afro- + Asiatic Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} Afroasiatic (not comparable)
  1. Of, pertaining to, or being a language family spoken in northern Africa and southwest Asia, and including Semitic, Egyptian, Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, and possibly Omotic languages. Tags: not-comparable Synonyms: Afrasian, Hamito-Semitic [dated], Semito-Hamitic [dated] Translations (of or pertaining to a language family — see also Hamito-Semitic): Afro-Aziatisch (Dutch), afroasiático (Galician), afroasiatisch (German), afroázsiai (Hungarian), афрази́йский (afrazíjskij) (Russian), afroȃzījskī (Serbo-Croatian), afrȃzījskī (Serbo-Croatian), afroasiatisk (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-Afroasiatic-en-adj-vERLP4nI Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 52 48
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: Afro-Asiatic

Proper name

Etymology: From Afro- + Asiatic. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|Afro|Asiatic}} Afro- + Asiatic Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Afroasiatic
  1. The Afro-Asiatic language family. Categories (topical): Language families Synonyms: Hamito-Semitic [dated], Afrasian Translations (of or pertaining to a language family — see also Hamito-Semitic): Afroasiatisch [neuter] (German), アフロ・アジア語族 (Afuro-Ajia-gozoku) (Japanese)
    Sense id: en-Afroasiatic-en-name-pfUucHNK Disambiguation of Language families: 35 65 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with Afro-, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 43 57 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with Afro-: 18 82 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 39 61 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 52 48 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 40 60 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 32 68 Disambiguation of Terms with Galician translations: 40 60 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 32 68 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 41 59 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 31 69 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 31 69 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 40 60 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 40 60
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: Afro-Asiatic

Alternative forms

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