hottentot

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A member of the Khoekhoe group of peoples

I was told that the Hottentots were uncommonly ugly and disgusting, but I do not think them so bad. Their features are small and their cheekbones immense, but they have a kind expression and countenance.

Any of several fish of the genus Pachymetopon, in the family Sparidae

The language of the Khoi, remarkable for its clicks

I have tried her with every sort of sound that a human being can make...Hottentot clicks, things it took me years to get hold of..

The Language of the Khoi remarkable for its clicks

{s} pertaining to a South African Bushman tribe; uncivilized, uncultured

Any of several fish of the species Pachymetopon

or Khoikhoi formerly Hottentot (pejorative) Group of peoples, speaking closely related Khoisan languages, who were among the first indigenous southern Africans encountered by Europeans. The precontact Khoekhoe were pastoralists who tended large herds of cattle and sheep. By 1800 Khoekhoe societies south of the Orange River in Cape Colony had been largely destroyed by disease and warfare, with the remnants either serving as bonded labourers for white farmers or blending into frontier communities of mixed descent, such as the Griqua. North of the Orange River in Namibia, the Nama are the largest Khoekhoe ethnic group, numbering about 230,000

A member of the Khoi group of peoples

{i} member of a South African Bushman tribe; uncivilized person

One of a degraded and savage race of South Africa, with yellowish brown complexion, high cheek bones, and wooly hair growing in tufts

The language of the Hottentots, which is remarkable for its clicking sounds

İlgili Terimler

Hottentot teal

a species of dabbling duck of the genus Anas

Hottentot teals

plural form of Hottentot teal

Hottentot pejorative

or Khoikhoi formerly Hottentot (pejorative) Group of peoples, speaking closely related Khoisan languages, who were among the first indigenous southern Africans encountered by Europeans. The precontact Khoekhoe were pastoralists who tended large herds of cattle and sheep. By 1800 Khoekhoe societies south of the Orange River in Cape Colony had been largely destroyed by disease and warfare, with the remnants either serving as bonded labourers for white farmers or blending into frontier communities of mixed descent, such as the Griqua. North of the Orange River in Namibia, the Nama are the largest Khoekhoe ethnic group, numbering about 230,000

hottentot bread

thick edible rootstock of elephant's-foot

hottentot fig

low-growing South African succulent plant having a capsular fruit containing edible pulp

Heceleme

Hot·ten·tot

Etimoloji

() From Dutch variously ascribed to mean stutterer; and from hot en tot being an approximation of common sounds in the Khoi language. First known use 1677 (in Dutch).