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 and neuter plural afgane)

1. Afghan

afgan m (plural afgani, feminine equivalent afgană)

1. Afghan man

• anguf

Inherited from Medieval Tashelhit آفڭان (afgan, “servant, slave”). The semantic development from "slave" to "human" is likely shaped by the Islamic theological concept of that all human beings are ‘servants‘ or ‘slaves‘ of God. Compare Hindustani بَنْدَہ / बंदा (bandā).

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

1. human, human beings, race

   Synonyms: bnadm, amddnu, middn, amxluq

   Akal ur igi n ufgan, afgan a igan win-nns.

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

2. (Medieval Tashelhit, Premodern) slave, serf, servant

   Coordinate term: amaziɣ

• 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