‖dagboek, noun

/ˈdaxbʊk/
Plurals:
dagboeke /ˈdaxbʊkə/.
Origin:
AfrikaansShow more Afrikaans, diary (literally ‘day book’).
An Afrikaans journal, diary, or log-book.
a1928 C. Fuller Louis Trigardt’s Trek (1932) 75The Sikoroso speak almost as if they had quite familiarised themselves with the contents of the Dagboek.
1934 P.R. Kirby Musical Instruments of Native Races (1965) 155The earliest mention of an ensemble of this kind occurs in the dagboek, or journal, of Louis Trigardt (1836), the voortrekker.
1949 J. Mockford Golden Land 233In all Afrikaans literature perhaps nothing is so poignant as the last entries in Trigardt’s dagboek, his diary, wherein, before he himself died in exile, he records his wife’s death.
1951 L.G. Green Grow Lovely 94‘Van Riebeeck could not have chosen a better site’, Mr van den Houten told me. ‘I still find his dagboek and garden almanac of value.’
An Afrikaans journal, diary, or log-book.
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dag, interjectionint.dagbreker, nounn.
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