Definition of Caffre. Meaning of Caffre. Synonyms of Caffre

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Definition of Caffre

Caffre
Kaffir Kaf"fir, Kafir Ka"fir, n. [Ar. k?fir infidel, pagan, fr. kafara to be skeptical in religious matters; -- a name given to certain infidel races by the Mohammedans. Cf. Giaour.] (Ethnol.) (a) One of a race which, with the Hottentots and Bushmen, inhabit South Africa. They inhabit the country north of Cape Colony, the name being now specifically applied to the tribes living between Cape Colony and Natal; but the Zulus of Natal are true Kaffirs. (b) One of a race inhabiting Kafiristan in Central Asia. [Spelt also Caffre.] Kaffir corn (Bot.), a Cape Colony name for Indian millet.
Caffre
Caffre Caf"fre, n. See Kaffir.

Meaning of Caffre from wikipedia

- enslaved Bantu. The earliest known reference, under the alternative spelling "caffre" is in the 1888 book The Cultivated Oranges, Lemons Etc. of India and Ceylon...
- kuffar Arabian Peninsula Non-Muslims (regardless of race). Also caffer or caffre. from Arabic kafir meaning "disbeliever". South Africa Black and Cape Coloured...
- (1986), 41f. Jochen S. Arndt, 'What’s in a Word? Historicising the Term ‘Caffre’ in European Discourses about Southern Africa between 1500 and 1800', Journal...
- The African wildcat (Felis lybica) is a small wildcat species with sandy grey fur, pale vertical stripes on the sides and around the face. It is native...
- Joaquim Torlades O'Neill and wife and first cousin Maria Carolina Caffary (or Caffre). He was a Vice-Consul of Belgium in Setúbal, etc. He married in Setúbal...
- was basically presenting himself not only as "a ghazi king who fights caffres [non-muslims], but also serves as protector and master of lesser ghazis...
- cartography as Coste Des Caffres, which translates to the Coast of Caffres of the south Limpopo River in 1688, "Cafres or Caffres" being a word derived from...
- cousin Maria Carolina Caffary (or Caffre) (Lisbon, São Paulo, 4 August 1823 - ?), daughter of Patrício João Caffary (or Caffre) and wife Maria Salomé O'Neill...
- after Henry Calderwood of the London Missionary Society, author of Caffres and Caffre Missions. "Main Place Calderwood". Census 2011. "Dictionary of Southern...
- and round the world: But chiefly into the country of the Hottentots and Caffres, from the year 1772 to 1776 (1789). He also published a Catalogue of the...