Kapenaarn.
/ˈkɑːpənɑː/, U.S. /ˈkæpəˌnɑr/, /ˈkɑpəˌnɑr/, South African English /ˈkɑːpənɑː/ South African.
1. An inhabitant of Cape Town or of the Cape Peninsula and its environs.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of Southern Africa > [noun] > countries or regions
Angolan1600
Angola1653
Malay1765
South African1806
Ngwaketsea1832
bushboya1834
Kapenaar1834
Transkeian1847
bosch-man1849
Natalian1850
burgher1879
Transvaaler1887
veldman1895
Rhodesian1897
Vaalpens1899
backvelder1911
plattelander1934
southwester1960
Zimbabwean1961
Zambian1963
Botswanian1966
Botswanan1967
Namibian1968
Ciskeian1973
Sowetan1974
1834 Cape of Good Hope Lit. Gaz. IV. 180 The Capenaars have..attempted to justify the holding of human flesh in bondage by appeals to Scripture.
1902 Dowey's Early Annals of Kobstad 99 He was a Kaapenaar.
1946 Spotlight (Johannesburg) 13 Dec. 2 b Kapenaars..feel that the Cabinet is really learning something of agricultural economy.
1959 Cape Times 9 Mar. 10/5 A statement more pleasing to..all true Kapenaars than that the long battle for the preservation of the building has been won.
1973 Cape Times 22 Jan. 5 Is it the mountain which makes Kaapenaars so allergic to change?
2. A large, silver-coloured, marine, food fish, Argyrozona (or Polystegamus) argyrozona, of the family Denticidæ.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Sparidae (sea-breams) > [noun] > member of family Denticidae (Kapenaar)
Kapenaar1902
1902 J. D. F. Gilchrist in Trans. S. Afr. Philos. Soc. 40 223 At Port Elizabeth it is called not Silver-fish, but Kapenaar.
1913 W. W. Thompson Sea Fisheries Cape Colony 154 Dentex argyrozona... Silver-fish; Kaapenaar (Port Elizabeth).
1947 K. H. Barnard Pictorial Guide S. Afr. Fishes 157 Silverfish, Kapenaar (Polystegamus argyrozona)... Table Bay to Natal, down to 70 fathoms. One of the best known, and economically important South African fishes. As well as being sold fresh, it is cured and smoked and sold as ‘haddock’.
1962 Pretoria News 5 Jan. 4/2 The Japanese come for what they call red bream or ‘red fish’, which includes the red roman, 74, kaapenaar and silver fish.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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