单词 | griqua |
释义 | Griquan.adj. A. n. A member of an Afrikaans-speaking people of mixed Khoekhoe and South African Dutch descent inhabiting chiefly the regions of Griqualand West in the Northern Cape province, and Griqualand East in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa; = bastard n. 12a.These regions enjoyed a short-lived independence as Griqua states from the early 1860s until the mid 1870s, before being incorporated into the Cape Colony. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [noun] > white and black > person > in South Africa bastard1785 Baster1790 Griqua1815 Rehobothiana1867 Rehoboth Bastard1894 Griqualander1897 coloured1903 Rehobother Bastard1921 Eurafrican1922 Rehoboth1923 Rehoboth Baster1926 Rehobother1958 1815 J. Campbell Trav. S. Afr. (ed. 2) xiii. 163 We partook together of the Lord's Supper, at which were present, Griquas, Hottentots, Dutch, English and Scotch. 1815 J. Campbell Trav. S. Afr. (ed. 2) xxvii. 349 The people in this part, being a mixed race, went by the name of Bastards; but having represented to the principal persons the offensiveness of the word to an English or Dutch ear, they resolved to assume some other name. On consulting among them~selves, they found the majority were descended from a person of the name of Griqua, and they resolved hereafter to be called Griquas. 1833 J. Philip Let. May in D. J. Kotzé Lett Amer. Missionaries (1950) 30 Our missionary stations among the Griquas. 1850 R. Gordon-Cumming Five Years Hunter's Life S. Afr. I. x. 202 Their tents and waggons were drawn up on every side of the farm-house... The Boers informed me that all their countrymen, and also the Griquas, were thus packed together in ‘lagers’, or encampments. 1857 D. Livingstone Missionary Trav. S. Afr. v. 104 On crossing the Orange River we come into independent territory inhabited by Griquas and Bechuanas. By Griquas is meant any mixed race sprung from natives and Europeans. 1866 J. Leyland Adventures Far Interior S. Afr. ii. 32 The Griquas or Bastards. 1897 J. Bryce Impressions S. Afr. 77 From unions between Hottentot women and the Dutch sprang the mixed race whom the Dutch call Bastards and the English Griquas. 1905 G. W. Stow Native Races S. Afr. xvii. 316 Among the old Hottentot tribes..was a clan..variously called Chariguriqua and Grigriqua... It was from this tribe the modern Griquas derived their name. 1970 Cape Times 28 Oct. 2/9 In it he tells how, during the second British occupation of the Cape, there lives a Griqua-Hottentot, by name Nossie. B. adj. Of or relating to this people. Cf. coloured adj. 3b. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [adjective] > person > person white and black > in South Africa bastard1785 Griqua1793 coloured1838 hotnot1939 Euro-African1952 1793 C. R. Hopson tr. C. P. Thunberg Trav. I. 308 Gauriquas land extends more to the north-eastward: this is a very fine country, and abounds in grass. 1815 J. Campbell Trav. S. Afr. (ed. 2) xiii. 162 The people were employed by one of the Griqua captains to watch his cattle. 1822 J. Campbell Trav. S. Afr.: Narr. 2nd Journey I. xiii. 130 I marked the Hottentot, Caffre, Bushmen, Griqua, Namaqua, and Matchappee countries. 1839 F. Owen Diary (1926) 149 Several Boers reside in the Griqua country. 1839 F. Owen Diary (1926) 149 The Griqua or Hottentot language. 1848 H. H. Methuen Life in Wilderness (ed. 2) iii. 72 Thence we proceeded to the Griqua village of Ramah, and rejoined our waggons there. 1958 L. van der Post Lost World of Kalahari i. 24 Griqua robbers. Derivatives ˈGriqualander n. a Griqua; (also) an inhabitant of Griqualand East or Griqualand West. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [noun] > white and black > person > in South Africa bastard1785 Baster1790 Griqua1815 Rehobothiana1867 Rehoboth Bastard1894 Griqualander1897 coloured1903 Rehobother Bastard1921 Eurafrican1922 Rehoboth1923 Rehoboth Baster1926 Rehobother1958 1897 A. J. Butler tr. F. Ratzel Hist. Mankind II. iii. 295 The term ‘Griqualanders’..has become usual since the Griquas have..had a country of their own allotted them. 1994 Weekend Post (Port Elizabeth) 22 Oct. 4 Hands off Kokstad, say Griqualanders. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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