Danakil

American  

[dan-uh-kil, -keel, duh-nah-keel] / ˈdæn ə kɪl, -ˌkil, dəˈnɑ kil /

noun

• Danakils,
  plural
• Danakil
  plural

1. Afar.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• Danakil
  plural
• Danakils
  plural

Example Sentences

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Danakil Danakils

We had to give up on our GPS instruments in Danakil.

From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2023

By late afternoon, we were slammed by the first of many unforgettable sights of the Danakil — the camel caravans of the salt trade, a timeless image that probably hasn’t changed in centuries.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2017

In the Danakil, a desert in Ethiopia, I felt this very real sense of nowhere, as if I were suspended in time.

From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2016

Foreigners who venture out into the area usually include researchers, aid workers and some 500 adventure tourists each year visiting geographical wonders like the Danakil Depression, with ancient salt mines and volcanoes.

From Reuters ● Jan. 18, 2012

Both sexes are equally temperate from necessity; the mead and the millet-beer, so common among the Abyssinians and the Danakil, are entirely unknown to the Somal of the plains.

From First Footsteps in East Africa by Sir Richard Francis Burton

This letter he sent by his Abyssinian headman to Mantoock, the nearest Abyssinian Ras and a sort of overlord of the Danakils, with request for his advice and aid.

From The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier by Edgar Beecher Bronson

Then guards were set about the camp and the little command lay down to sleep within a spear's throw of thousands of Ali Gorah's wild Danakils.

From The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier by Edgar Beecher Bronson