af

af

1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Afrikaans.

• IPA^(key): /eɪ̯ˈɛf/, /æf/
• Rhymes: -ɛf, -æf
• Homophone: AF

af (not comparable)

1. (Internet slang, text messaging, vulgar) Initialism of as fuck.

   Alternative forms: AF, asf

   • 2009 April 6, Ashley Kull, “Bored af!!!!”, in Twitter‎^[1], archived from the original on 2016-06-14:

     Bored af!!!!

   • 2021, Isabel Waidner, Sterling Karat Gold, Peninsula Press, page 16:

     ‘Seen them there a few times. Arrives early, leaves alone. Social though. Friendly. Dishy af.’
     Dishy af. You can say that again.

1. (stenoscript) Abbreviation of after.

• F/A, FA, fa

From Proto-Cushitic *ʔaf, from Proto-Afroasiatic [Term?]. Cognates include Oromo afaan, Somali af and Saho af, furthermore Amharic አፍ (ʾäf) and Arabic فَم (fam).

• IPA^(key): /ˈaf/ [ˈʔʌf]

áf m (plural afitté f or afoofá f or afoofí f)

1. mouth
2. cutting edge
3. language

• The plural afitté is used in the southern dialects, whereas afoofá and afoofí are used in the northern dialects.

• E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “af”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[2], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

From Old Norse af, from Proto-Germanic *ab. Related to English of, off and German ab.

• IPA^(key): [a], (in the end of a phrase) [ˈæːˀ]

af

1. by

   the active part, originator: En roman af Hemingway - A novel by Hemingway

2. of

   indicating connection: Ejeren af huset - The owner of the house

   in descriptions: En mand af format - A man of stature; Et hus lavet af træ - A house made of wood

   part of: ni ud af ti - nine out of ten

3. from

   of origin: Jeg hørte det af ham - I heard it from him

4. off

   away from: Jeg faldt af cyklen - I fell off the bike

5. with

   caused by: grøn af misundelse - green with envy

6. out of

   motivated by: Han gjorde det af nysgerrighed - He did it out of curiosity

af

1. off

   tage sit tøj af - take off one's clothes

2. of

   på grund af - because of

From Middle Dutch af, from Old Dutch af, from Proto-West Germanic *ab, from Proto-Germanic *ab.

• IPA^(key): /ɑf/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: af
• Rhymes: -ɑf

af

1. off
2. (postpositional) off, from (implying motion)

   Stomdronken reed de automobilist de weg af.

   Totally drunk, the motorist drove off the road.

• Jersey Dutch: âf
• Negerhollands: af
• → Indonesian: af

af (used only predicatively, comparative meer af, superlative meest af)

1. finished, done (when working on something)

   Het huis is af.

   The house is ready.

2. (games) out, dismissed from play under the rules of the game, e.g. by having been tagged

• klaar

• onaf

af

1. Romanization of 𐌰𐍆

From Old Norse af, from Proto-Germanic *ab.

• IPA^(key): /aːv/
• Rhymes: -aːv

af

1. (with dative) off, from
2. (with dative) of
3. (with dative) by

From Dutch af (“off”), from Middle Dutch af, from Old Dutch af, from Proto-West Germanic *ab, from Proto-Germanic *ab.

• IPA^(key): [ˈaf]
• Hyphenation: af

af (first-person possessive afku, second-person possessive afmu, third-person possessive afnya)

1. (medicine, surgery) off; removal.

• “af” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• IPA^(key): /aːf/
• Rhymes: -aːf

af

1. imperative singular of jaf

af (Raguileo spelling)

1. beside; next to.

• Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

From Old Dutch af, from Proto-Germanic *ab.

af

1. off, out, away
2. of, about

Generally found in combination with a locative adverb such as hier, daer. Also found combined with a verb. In prepositional usage, van was used.

• āve
• of

• Dutch: af
• Limburgish: aaf

• “ave (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “af”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /aːv/

af

1. first-person singular present indicative of mynet

From Proto-Germanic *ab, whence also Old English æf, af, of (English of), Old Saxon ab, af, Old High German aba, abo (German ab), Gothic 𐌰𐍆 (af). Compare also au- in Icelandic auvirði.

af

1. of, from, off, by

• Icelandic: af
• Faroese: av
• Norn: av
• Elfdalian: åv
• Old Swedish: af, āf, aff
  • Swedish: av, af (pre-1906 spelling; remains in surnames)
• Danish: af
• Norwegian Bokmål: av

• “af”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

From Proto-Germanic *ab.

af

1. of
2. out

af f (plural aues)

1. Apocopic form of aue (“bird”)
   • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 97v:

     Et q̃ deſcẽda ſobreſta piedra la uertud de om̃e q̃ tẽga en la mano dieſtra lança ⁊ en la ſinieſtra un af traſtornada.

     [Et que descenda sobre [e]sta piedra la vertud de omne que tenga en la mano diestra lanç e en la siniestra un af trastornada.]

     And may there descend over this stone the virtue of the man holding a spear in his right hand and an upturned bird in his left hand.

af

1. (Internet slang) afe

af

1. (onomatopoeia) arf, woof

From Proto-Cushitic *ʔaf-/*yaf-. Cognate with Beja [script needed] (yēf), Oromo afaan and Afar af.

• IPA^(key): /æ̀f/

äf m

1. mouth
2. language

• Puglielli, Annarita, Mansuur, Cabdalla Cumar (2012) “af”, in Qaamuuska Af-Soomaliga‎^[3], Rome: RomaTrE-Press, →ISBN, page 35

af

1. Archaic spelling of av.

• Although phased out in the Swedish spelling reform of 1906, this spelling can still be seen in surnames of nobility, such as af Geijerstam and af Wisborg.
• Appears in some examples on Wiktionary that are actually quotes, where it should probably be replaced with "av" (along with other language modernization, or with the example marked as having archaic language – or moved into a quote).

• de
• von

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af (Tifinagh spelling ⴰⴼ)

1. (transitive) to find, to discover
2. (transitive) to stumble upon
3. (intransitive, construed with ɣar) to heal, to recover

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• Passive: twafa (“to be found”)
• Verbal noun: twafit (“discovery”)
• ataf (“perhaps”)

• ffu (“to be at dawn”)

From Ottoman Turkish عفو ('afv), from Arabic عَفْو (ʕafw).

• IPA^(key): /ɑf/

af (definite accusative affı, plural aflar)

1. pardon

• affetmek
• affedilmek
• affettirmek
• affolunmak
• genel af

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “af”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

• a (colloquial)

• (North Wales, standard) IPA^(key): /aːv/
  • (North Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /aː/
• (South Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA^(key): /aːv/
  • (South Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /aː/
• Rhymes: -aːv

af

1. (literary) first-person singular present indicative/future of mynd

af

1. Alternative form of ov (“of”)

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 22