Marfa may refer to:

Music

Marfa (instrument) Marfa (, ) also Timki is a single hemispherical drum or percussion instrument. It may have originated in Africa. Timki Timki is used by tribals of Madhya Pradesh, earlier it used to be an earthenware. See also * Marfa Music References

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, an African percussion instrument *

Marfa (music) Marfa is a form of celebratory rhythmic music and dance among the Hyderabadi Muslims in the Deccan region adapted from Afro-Arab music of Hadhramawt in Yemen. It is played at a high tempo using instruments such as marfa, '' daff'', ''dhol'', ...

, celebratory music of the Hyderabadi Muslims

Places

Márfa Márfa is a village in Baranya county, Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the e ...

, a village in Baranya county, Hungary *

Marfa, Chad Marfa is a sub-prefecture of Ouaddaï Region in Chad Chad, officially the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North Africa, North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to Chad–Libya border, the north, ...

Marfa, Texas Marfa is a city in the high desert of the Trans-Pecos in far West Texas, United States, between the Davis Mountains and Big Bend National Park, at an elevation of 4685 feet. It is the county seat of Presidio County, Texas, Presidio County. The ci ...

, a city in the high desert of the Trans-Pecos in western Texas * Marfa, Malta, a port near in northern Malta

Other uses

Marfa (given name) Marfa (Russian: ''Марфа'') is an East Slavic given name, a variant of Martha. * Marfa Alekseyevna of Russia (1652–1707), Moscow Tsarina and Orthodox saint * , 18th-century Russian Orthodox saint * Marfa Apraksina (1664–1716), second wife o ...

CFR Marfă CFR Marfă is the state-owned freight railway business of Romania. Formerly the freight division of Căile Ferate Române (CFR), it was separated in 1998 to become a semi-independent business. In April 2013, under pressure from the IMF to refo ...

, a state-owned freight railway business of Romania * Marfa, a sub-group of the

Maba people The Maba, also called Bargo or Wadai people, are a Sunni Muslim ethnic group found primarily in the mountains of Wadai region in eastern Chad and southern Sudan. Their population is estimated to be about 542,000. Other estimates place the total n ...

of north-central Africa **

Marfa language Marfa is a Maban language spoken in Chad. It is not a dialect of the Masalit language Masalit (autonym ''Masala/Masara''; ) is a Nilo-Saharan language of the Maban language group spoken by the Masalit people in Ouaddaï Region, Chad and Wes ...

, a Maban language spoken in Chad * Marfa front, another term for a

dry line A dry line (also called a dew point line, or Marfa front, after Marfa, Texas) is a line across a continent that separates moist air and dry air. One of the most prominent examples of such a separation occurs in central North America, especially ...

Marfa lights The Marfa lights, also known as the Marfa ghost lights, are regularly observed near Marfa, Texas, in the United States. They are most often seen from a viewing area nearby, which the community has publicized to encourage tourism. Scientists observ ...

, a possible paranormal phenomena frequently visible near Marfa, Texas