Griqua

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  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.

Word forms

Griqua Griquas

Etymology

From Afrikaans Griekwa.

Related words

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