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[edit]
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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