Original sentence: ) The name is usually connected with Phoenician ʿafar, "dust", (also found in other Semitic languages), but a 1981 hypothesis has asserted that it stems from the Berber ifri (plural ifran) "cave", in reference to cave dwellers
Edited sentence: ) The name was formerly connected with Hebrew ʿafar, "dust", (also found in other Semitic languages), but a 1981 hypothesis has asserted that it stems from the Berber ifri (plural ifran) "cave", in reference to cave dwellers