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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A person from South Africa or Namibia who speaks Afrikaans. (More properly called "Afrikaans people" or Afrikaners.)
2. 2
   an official language of the Republic of South Africa; closely related to Dutch and Flemish wordnet

Adjective

1. 1
   Of or pertaining to the Afrikaans language. not-comparable

Adjective

1. 1
   belonging or relating to white people of South Africa whose ancestors were Dutch or to their language wordnet

Proper Noun

1. 1
   A Germanic language descending from Dutch; the primary language of the descendants of Dutch and other European settlers, as well as many mixed-race (e.g. Rehoboth Basters) living in South Africa and in Namibia. Also, one of the eleven official languages of South Africa and until 1990 one of three official languages of Namibia.

Synonyms

All synonyms

afrikaans languageafrikanerafrikanerenglishlanguagetaal

Example

More examples

"South Africa is called "Suid-Afrika" in Afrikaans."

Etymology

From Afrikaans Afrikaans or Dutch Afrikaans.

Related phrases

south africa

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.