Afrasia

[af-rey-zhuh, -shuh]

noun

1. N Africa and SW Asia considered together.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Afrasia¹

Afr- + Asia

Example Sentences

The BBC spoke to the families of Rezhwan Hassan, 19, and Afrasia Mohammed, 27, last week before their deaths were confirmed on Tuesday.

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Rezhwan and Afrasia were both from the town of Rania, in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

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Also in the boat was his friend, Afrasia Mohamed.

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His sister, Nergiz Ahmed Mohammed, says Afrasia believed that the UK promised him a brighter future.

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At least 12,000 of Turkey’s millionaires — around 12 percent of the country’s wealthy class — moved their assets out of the country in 2016 and 2017, according to the Global Wealth Migration Review, an annual report produced by AfrAsia Bank.

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