Internationally Common
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- Afrikaans (literally "african", adj.)
- apartheid (literally "separate-ness")
- bergwind (warm dry wind blowing from the plateau to the coast)
- biltong (literally "rump tongue/strip")
- Boer (literally "farmer")
- boerewors (literally "farmer's sausage")
- kloof (literally "cleft", a steep-sided valley)
- kommando (originally a mounted infantry unit raised to retrieve stolen livestock)
- kop, or koppie (literally "head" or "cup", an African monadnock)
- laager (a collection of vehicles in a circle, meant for protection)
- rand (literally "edge" or "rim")
- rooibos (literally "red bush")
- rondavel (literally "round hovel")
- sjambok (an ox-hide whip)
- spoor (literally "tracks" or "footprints")
- trek (literally "draw", or "haul")
Read more about this topic: List Of English Words Of Afrikaans Origin
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