Afrikan
/ˈafrɪk(ə)n/adjective
= African.
- Used as an alternative to or replacement for African (in early use often in the names of social and political organizations and events) to emphasize the African origins, values, and identity of people of African descent, originally and especially African Americans..
noun
= African.
- Chiefly in contexts emphasizing the common identity and values of all people of African descent: compare note at branch A..
Origin
1920s; earliest use found in Philadelphia Tribune. Respelling of African and African, apparently after Swahili Afrika, the name of the continent, and similar forms in other African languages.
- fairy-lighted
- fairy lights
- fairylike
- fairy lint
- fairy-lit
- fairy loaf
- fairy lore
- fairy martin
- fairy money
- fairy moss
- fairy mound
- fairy mushroom
- fairy nip
- fairyologist
- fairyology
- fairy palace
- fairy penguin
- fairy petticoats
- fairy pipe
- fairy primrose
- fairy prince
- fairy princess
- fairy prion
- fairy problem
- fairy queen