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English
Etymology
From Afrikaans Griekwa.
Noun
Griqua (plural Griquas or Griqua)
- Any of a subgroup of South Africa's heterogeneous and multiracial black people, originally populating the frontiers of the infant Cape Colony, living as seminomadic commandos of mounted gunmen.
Translations
member of a multiracial people of South Africa