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Hottentot

 
Dictionary: Hot·ten·tot   (hŏt'n-tŏt') pronunciation

n. Offensive, pl., Hottentot, or -tots.
  1. A Khoikhoin.
  2. Any of the Khoikhoin group of languages.

[Afrikaans.]


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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: any of the Khoisan languages spoken by the pastoral people of Namibia and South Africa
  Synonyms: Khoikhoin, Khoikhoi


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Dansk (Danish)
n. - hottentot
adj. - hottentot-

Nederlands (Dutch)
Hottentot, hottentots, onbegrijpelijke taal

Français (French)
n. - Hottentot, (Ling) hottentot
adj. - hottentot

Deutsch (German)
n. - Hottentotte
adj. - Hottentotten-

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (εθνολ.) Οτεντότος, οτεντοτική (διάλεκτος)
adj. - οτεντοτικός, Οτεντότος

Italiano (Italian)
ottentotto

Português (Portuguese)
n. - hotentote (m), idioma (m) hotentote
adj. - hotentote

Русский (Russian)
готтентот

Español (Spanish)
n. - hotentote
adj. - hotentote

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - hottentott, hottentottska (språk), vilde
adj. - hottentott-

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
霍屯督人, 霍屯督语, 霍屯督人的, 霍屯督语的

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 何騰托人, 何騰托語
adj. - 何騰托人的, 何騰托語的

한국어 (Korean)
n. - (남아프리카의 미개 인종) 호텐토트 사람, 호텐토트 말, 미개인
adj. - 호텐토트의

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - ホッテントット語

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) الهوتنتوت, شعب افريقي جنوبي ذو بشرة داكنه ضاربه إلى الصفرة, الهوتنتوتي, واحد الهوتنتوت, الهوتنتوتيه لغه الهوتنتوت (صفه) هوتنتوتي‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮הוטנטוטי, בן שבט בדרום-אפריקה‬
adj. - ‮הוטנטוטי‬


 
 
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