‖karkoer, noun
/karˈkur/
- Origin:
- Afrikaans, Khoikhoi, SanShow more Afrikaans, probably from Khoikhoi, from San /krogn, /kroka cucumber, kaku pumpkin; or see quotation 1934.
tsamma.
1934 C.P. Swart Supplement to Pettman. 86Karkoer, (According to Dr. S.P.E. Boshoff in ‘Volk en Taal van Suid-Afrika’ p. 382, the word is derived from Bantu cakulo, pronounced karkoer by the Hottentots from whom the Dutch colonists first heard it). A species of bitter melon or wild watermelon.
1971 Informant, Grahamstown (now Makhanda, Eastern Cape)The karkoer grows wild and is very bitter — looks like watermelon...Nothing eats them.
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