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:
“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)
“Forty years on, when afar and asunder Parted are those who are singing today.”
—E.E. Bowen (1836–1901)
“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)