Afri

(  guda ɗaya )  sunan Latin ne ga mazaunan Afirka, yana nufin a cikin ma'anarsa mafi girma ga dukan ƙasashen kudu da Bahar Rum ( Tsohuwar Libiya ).Chapter 3, Charles E. Bennett (1907) The Latin Language – a historical outline of its sounds, inflections, and syntax. Allyn & Bacon, Boston. Masu magana da Latin da farko sun yi amfani da  a matsayin sifa, ma'ana "na Afirka". A matsayin mahimmanci, yana nuna ɗan asalin  ; watau dan Afirka.

 Asalin suna 
Har yanzu dai ba a tabbatar da ilimin asalin kalmar ba. Yana iya fitowa daga kalmar Punic don ƴan asalin yankin da ke kewaye da Carthage . don tattaunawa.) Sunan yawanci yana da alaƙa da Phoenician ʿafar "ƙurar"  (kuma ana samunsa a cikin wasu harsunan Semitic ), amma hasashe na 1981 ya nuna cewa ya fito ne daga Berber ifri (jam'i ifran ) "kogon", dangane da mazauna kogo .   (Duba Tataouine .) Ana iya samun wannan kalmar  a cikin sunan Banu Ifran daga Aljeriya da Tripolitania, ƙabilar Berber asalinsu daga Yafran (wanda aka fi sani da Ifrane ) a arewa maso yammacin Libya . Edward Lipinski, Itineraria Phoenicia, Peeters Publishers, 2004, p. 200. . Masanin tarihi Flavius Josephus ya ce zuriyar jikan Ibrahim Epher ne suka mamaye yankin kuma suka ba shi suna.

 Afirka 
Wannan kabilanci ya samar da tushen kalmar Afirka . Romawa suna kiran yankin a matsayin Afirka terra (ƙasar Afri), bisa tushen Afr- tare da maƙasudin suffix -ic, suna ba da Afirka, Afirka, Africum a cikin zaɓi na musamman na jinsin Latin guda uku. Carthage a Yaƙin Punic na Uku, Roma ta kafa lardin Proconsularis na Afirka . Afer ya zama abin sani ga mutanen wannan lardin.

Kabilar Jamus ta Vandals sun mamaye Diocese Roman na Afirka a karni na 5; Masarautar ta sake mamaye ta a matsayin yankin Masarautar Afirka a shekara ta 534 AD. Sunan Latin Afirka ya shigo cikin Larabci ne bayan cin nasarar Musulunci a matsayin Ifriqiya . 

Sunan ya wanzu a yau kamar Ifira da Ifri-n-Dellal a Greater Kabylie ( Aljeriya ). Ana kiran kabilar Berber Banu Ifran a tsakiyar zamanai, kuma Ifurace shine sunan mutanen Tripoli a karni na 6. 

Herodotus ya rubuta cewa Garamantes, mutanen Arewacin Afirka, sun kasance suna zama a cikin kogo. Girkawa sun kira mutanen Afirka da ke zaune a cikin kogo Troglodytae.

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 Roman Afirka

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 Afirka, bc.edu