The story
- Indo-Portuguese · derived fromcafre“kaffir, East African”
- Indo-Portuguese · borrowed from(à) cafreal“(in the) kaffir (manner)”
- English todaycafreal
From Indo-Portuguese (à) cafreal (“(in the) kaffir (manner)”), from Indo-Portuguese cafre (“kaffir, East African”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.