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Griqua

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

Any of a subgroup of South Africa's heterogeneous and multiracial black people, originally populating the frontiers of the infant Cape Colony, living as seminomadic commandos of mounted gunmen.

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History

Etymology

From Afrikaans Griekwa.

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  • Afrikaans: Griekwa — member of a multiracial people of South Africa
  • Portuguese: griqua — member of a multiracial people of South Africa
  • Spanish: gricua — member of a multiracial people of South Africa