n.
An Afrikaans-speaking South African of European ancestry, especially one descended from 17th-century Dutch settlers.
[Afrikaans, from Dutch, from Afrikaan, an African, from Latin Āfricānus, from Āfrica, Africa, from Āfer, Āfr-, an African.]
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