hottentot

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A member of the Khoekhoe group of peoples.

   “1798-1801, Lady Ann Barnard, Letters and Journals I was told that the Hottentots were uncommonly ugly and disgusting, but I do not think them so bad. Their features are small and their cheekbones immense, but they have a kind expression and countenance.”

2. isim A member of the broader Khoisan group of peoples.

   “The Hottentots (Khoisan peoples) once an independent nation but whose simple tribal system had disintegrated rapidly as they were relentlessly displaced from their traditional grazing grounds and driven deep into the still uninhabited interior […]”

3. özel isim The language of the Khoekhoe, remarkable for its clicks.

   “Ive tried her with every […] possible sort of sound that a human being can make— […] Continental dialects, African dialects, Hottentot […] clicks, things it took me years to get hold of; and […] she picks them up like a shot, right away, as if she had […] been at it all her life.”

4. isim Any of several fish of the genus Pachymetopon, in the family Sparidae.