Kapenaar

See also: kapenaar

English

Etymology

From Afrikaans Kapenaar.

Noun

Kapenaar (plural Kapenaars)

A native or inhabitant of Cape Town.
Synonym: Capetonian
- 1926, P[ercy] W[ard] Laidler, A Tavern of the Ocean: Being a Social and Historical Sketch of Cape Town from Its Earliest Days, Cape Town: Maskew Miller, Limited, page 173:
  Fowls serenaded, and dogs passed the time lazily, even in the Gentlemen’s Walk. The bustle and spirit of absorbing competition which so pervade modern life had not yet infected the Kapenaars.
- 1948, H[enry] V[ollam] Morton, “In which I see the original diary of van Riebeeck, […]”, in In Search of South Africa, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., page 58:
  The sun shone upon rectangular streets lined with reed-thatched houses, many of them the stately, classical houses of the Seventeenth Century, their many-paned windows set with regularity on either side of a tall, dignified door, pilasters lifting themselves from street to roof level, and each house with a stone stoep upon which the Kapenaars sat in the cool of summer evenings.
- 1961, Randolph Vigne, “The Literature of South Africa”, in A[lan] L[indsey] McLeod, editor, The Commonwealth Pen: An Introduction to the Literature of the British Commonwealth, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, page 80:
  The early Dutch settlers and the English who followed them were living in Europe’s remotest outpost, not in Africa. Mountain ranges, and the Kalahari and Karroo deserts to the north and east, were between them and their rivals for possession of the country, the Bantu-speaking tribes. Life was peaceful; the Kapenaars’ eyes were turned to Europe (some say they still are), while out east on the frontier history was made.

Translations

native or inhabitant of Cape Town — see Capetonian

References

“Kapenaar, n.”, in Dictionary of South African English, Makhanda, Eastern Cape: Dictionary Unit for South African English, 1996–2024.
“Kapenaar, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Afrikaans

Noun

Kapenaar (plural Kapenaars or Kapenare, diminutive Kapenaartjie)

Capetonian, a person from Cape Town