cafre
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French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]cafre m (plural cafres)
Further reading
[edit]- “cafre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]cafre
Anagrams
[edit]Macanese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Presumably from Portuguese cafre, from Arabic كَافِر (kāfir, “infidel”).
Noun
[edit]cafre (rare)
Usage notes
[edit]- Very rarely used in modern Macanese. African soldiers who did military service in Macau up until the 1960s were referred to by the generic name landins.[1]
Adjective
[edit]cafre
- black
- mui cafre ― black plum
References
[edit]- ^ Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “cafre”, in Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page 338
Further reading
[edit]Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Arabic كَافِر (kāfir, “infidel”). Attested since 1516 (Dicionário Houaiss da Língua Portuguesa).
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]cafre m (plural cafres)
Descendants
[edit]Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Portuguese cafre, from Arabic كَافِر (kāfir, “infidel”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cafre m or f by sense (plural cafres)
- (historical) inhabitant of British Kaffraria, a former British colony in South Africa
- (Philippines, folklore) ogre or giant believed to smoke cigars and live in old trees, especially balete (banyan) trees
Adjective
[edit]cafre m or f (masculine and feminine plural cafres)
- (historical, relational) of British Kaffraria
- (colloquial) cruel and barbaric
- (colloquial) uncouth, boorish
Further reading
[edit]- “cafre”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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