noun
- one of a breed of red beef cattle, raised originally in southern Africa, well adapted to high temperatures.
- Archaic. Afrikaner.
noun
- a breed of humpbacked beef cattle originally raised in southern Africa
- a southern African breed of fat-tailed sheep
- a former name for an Afrikaner
1822, “South African native of Dutch descent,” from Dutch Afrikaner “African,” with intrusive -d- on analogy of Hollander, Englander, etc. (Afrikaner is attested from 1824).