cafre
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