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cafre m (plural cafres)

1. (obsolete, offensive) Kaffir

• “cafre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.fre/
• Rhymes: -afre
• Hyphenation: cà‧fre

cafre

1. feminine plural of cafro

• farce

• cáfre

Presumably from Portuguese cafre, from Arabic كَافِر (kāfir, “infidel”).

cafre (rare)

1. black African
2. any dark-skinned person

• Very rarely used in modern Macanese. African soldiers who did military service in Macau up until the 1960s were referred to by the generic name landins.^[1]

cafre

1. black

   mui cafre ― black plum

• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#c

From Arabic كَافِر (kāfir, “infidel”). Attested since 1516 (Dicionário Houaiss da Língua Portuguesa).

cafre m (plural cafres)

1. Kaffir

• Macanese: cafre, cáfre

From Portuguese cafre, from Arabic كَافِر (kāfir, “infidel”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkafɾe/ [ˈka.fɾe]
• Rhymes: -afɾe
• Syllabification: ca‧fre

cafre m or f by sense (plural cafres)

1. (historical) inhabitant of British Kaffraria, a former British colony in South Africa
2. (Philippines, folklore) ogre or giant believed to smoke cigars and live in old trees, especially balete (banyan) trees

cafre m or f (masculine and feminine plural cafres)

1. (historical, relational) of British Kaffraria
2. (colloquial) cruel and barbaric
3. (colloquial) uncouth, boorish

• → Tagalog: kapre

• “cafre”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• Abella, Venancio María de (1874) Vade-Mecum Filipino ó manual de la conversacion familiar Español-Tagalog. Seguido de un curioso Vocabulario de Modismos Manileños.‎^[1], 12.ᵃ edition (overall work in Spanish and Tagalog), Escolta, Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier, á cargo de C. Miralles., page 113