Afer

Etymology
The term is derived from a or a  term for the country in which the city of Carthage was located. It is possibly derived from an ethnonym, a name of an indigenous tribe encountered by the Phoenician colonists, or perhaps related to akin to 🇨🇬, or alternatively from a  language, denoting cave dwellers. Flavius Josephus derived the ethnonym from the name of Abraham's grandson, Epher. The name is perhaps related to the tribal name Ifran recorded by medieval Arab authors.

Adjective

 * 1) from Africa (the region of modern-day Tunisia)

Proper noun

 * 1)  a Carthaginian
 * , a Roman playwright
 * , a Roman playwright