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Words of Afrikaans origin have entered other languages.British English has absorbed Afrikaans words primarily via British soldiers who served in the Boer Wars.Many more words have entered common usage in South African English due to the parallel nature of the English and Afrikaner cultures in South Africa.
The name of the language comes directly from the Dutch word Afrikaansch (now spelled Afrikaans) [n 3] meaning 'African'. [12] It was previously referred to as 'Cape Dutch' (Kaap-Hollands or Kaap-Nederlands), a term also used to refer to the early Cape settlers collectively, or the derogatory 'kitchen Dutch' (kombuistaal) from its use by slaves of colonial settlers "in the kitchen".
(Informal) a ditzy woman (derogatory term), from the Afrikaans word pop, meaning a doll. potjie A cast iron dutch oven. robot Besides the standard meaning, in South Africa this is also used for traffic lights. The etymology of the word derives from a description of early traffic lights as robot policemen, which then got truncated with time. [34 ...
Although Dutch and Afrikaans share a number of words prefixed with oor , such as oorsprong ("origin"), this is an unrelated word meaning "original". Although kus in Afrikaans can mean "kiss", as in Dutch, the more usual term is soen , similar to Dutch zoen , [ 124 ] as the homophone kus means "coast".
Another meaning for the word bokkie (or bokbaardjie) is for a style of beard which is short (often pointy) and stylish and often surrounds just the mouth and chin in a circle . Based on the Afrikaans word bok (lit. "buck", as well as goat). boom – marijuana (literally tree) bosberaad – strategy meeting held in a rural setting
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The following list names English words that originate from African languages. Adinkra – from Akan, visual symbols that represent concepts or aphorisms. Andriana – from Malagasy, aristocratic noble class of the Kingdom of Madagascar; apartheid – from Afrikaans, "separateness" Aṣẹ - from Yoruba, "I affirm" or "make it happen"