Afar

Afar may refer to:

Horn of Africa
  • Afar people, an ethnic group of Djibouti, Eritrea and Ethiopia
  • Afar Region, a component state of Ethiopia
  • Afar language, an East Cushitic language
  • Afar Desert or Danakil Desert, a desert in Ethiopia
  • Afar Triangle, a geological depression in the Horn of Africa
  • Afar Triple Junction, a convergence of tectonic plates
  • Afar Insurgency or Djiboutian Civil War, of 1991–1994
  • Afar Liberation Front
  • Aussa Sultanate, also known as the Afar Sultanate
  • French Territory of the Afars and the Issas, former French Djibouti
  • Saho–Afar languages
Iraq
  • Tal Afar, in Iraq
  • Tel Afar District, region in Iraq
Other
  • From Afar, an album by the Finnish band Ensiferum
  • A Combo Rangers character

Famous quotes containing the word afar:

    “A person far from home is not valued highly, but goods imported from afar are.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “Bid a strong ghost stand at the head
    That my Michael may sleep sound,
    Nor cry, not turn in the bed
    Till his morning meal come round;
    And may departing twilight keep
    All dread afar till morning’s back....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “The man of genius, like a dog with a bone, or the slave who has swallowed a diamond, or a patient with the gravel, sits afar and retired, off the road, hangs out no sign of refreshment for man and beast, but says, by all possible hints and signs, I wish to be alone,—good-by,—fare-well. But the Landlord can afford to live without privacy.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)