Griqua

English

Etymology

From Afrikaans Griekwa.

Noun

Griqua (plural Griquas or Griqua)

1. 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.

Related terms

• Griqualand

Translations

member of a multiracial people of South Africa

• Afrikaans: Griekwa
• Portuguese: griqua m or f
• Spanish: gricua m or f