afgan

From the name of singer Afgansyah Reza. Sense sadistic come from Afgan's single titled 'Sadis'.

• IPA^(key): [afɡan]
• Hyphenation: af‧gan

afgan (comparative lebih afgan, superlative paling afgan)

1. (slang) sadistic; cruel

   Synonyms: kejam, sadis, sadistis

From French afghan.

• IPA^(key): [afɡɑ̃]

afgan

1. any of the languages native to Afghanistan.

afgan

1. Afghan

• Afgan
• Afganistan

Borrowed from French Afghan.

• IPA^(key): [afˈɡan]

afgan m or n (feminine singular afgană, masculine plural afgani, feminine/neuter plural afgane)

1. Afghan

afgan m (plural afgani, feminine equivalent afgană)

1. Afghan man

• anguf — poetic

Inherited from Medieval Tashelhit ‎اڢْچَنْ (afgan, “servant, slave”)^[1], from Proto-Berber. Cognate with Ancient Nefusa ڢُجْنُتَنْ (fuǧnuten, “the worshipers, the pious”).

The semantic development from "slave" to "human" is likely shaped by the Islamic theological concept of human servitude to God. A parallel development is seen in Hindustani بَنْدَہ / बंदा (bandā).

afgan m (plural ifgnan, Tifinagh spelling ⴰⴼⴳⴰⵏ, Arabic spelling آفڭان)

1. human being, mankind

   Synonyms: amxluq, middn, bnadm

   • 17th century , A translaltion of Surah al-fātiḥa by Muħammad Ben Saʔid Al Meriɣiti Al-Susi Al-Murrakuši:

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     Tulɣitin i ugllid mqqurn, bab n ifgnan, win tluɣiwin, agllid n wass n tikkiwin, kiyyin a mu nskar f tssumga, kiyyin as nra ad anɣ tawst, aẓimẓ anɣ i uɣaras inmn, aɣaras n willi mu tfkit, urd willi f tmɛaqqart, ula d willi uckanin.

     "Praise be to God, Lord of the Universe (Creation),The Compassionate, the Merciful, Sovereign of the Day of Judgement! You alone we worship, and to You alone we turn for help. Guide us to the straight path, The path of those whom You have favoured, Not of those who have incurred Your wrath, Nor of those who have gone astray."

   آفڭان اد ڭيغ ― afgan ad giɣ. ― I am a human being.

   آكال ور يڭي ن وفڭان، آفڭان ا يڭان وينّس

   akal ur igi n ufgan, afgan a ygan win-nns

   The land does not belong to humans, it is the humans who belong to the land.

• → Kabyle: afgan (“human”)
• → Moroccan Amazigh: ⴰⴼⴳⴰⵏ (afgan, “human”)

• Stroomer, Harry (2025), Dictionnaire berbère tachelḥiyt-français — Tome 1 a—e (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 188/1) (in French), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 93b
• Maarten Kossmann (2013), The Arabic Influence on Northern Berber (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics; 67), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 27