cafre

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French

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Noun

cafre m (plural cafres)

  1. (obsolete, offensive) Kaffir

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Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈka.fre/
  • Rhymes: -afre
  • Hyphenation: cà‧fre

Adjective

cafre

  1. feminine plural of cafro

Anagrams

Macanese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Presumably from Portuguese cafre, from Arabic كَافِر (kāfir, “infidel”).

Noun

cafre (rare)

  1. black African
  2. any dark-skinned person

Usage notes

  • 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

cafre

  1. black
    mui cafre ― black plum

References

  1. ^ 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

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Arabic كَافِر (kāfir, “infidel”). Attested since 1516 (Dicionário Houaiss da Língua Portuguesa).

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Noun

cafre m (plural cafres)

  1. Kaffir

Descendants

  • Macanese: cafre, cáfre

Spanish

Etymology

From Portuguese cafre, from Arabic كَافِر (kāfir, “infidel”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkafɾe/
  • Rhymes: -afɾe
  • Syllabification: ca‧fre

Noun

cafre m or f by sense (plural cafres)

  1. (historical) inhabitant of British Kaffraria, a former British colony in South Africa
  2. (Philippines, folklore) ogre or giant believed to smoke cigars and live in old trees, especially balete (banyan) trees

Adjective

cafre m or f (masculine and feminine plural cafres)

  1. (historical, relational) of British Kaffraria
  2. (colloquial) cruel and barbaric
  3. (colloquial) uncouth, boorish

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