Hottentot
# Hottentot

## Racial term

* Hottentot (racial term), both an ethnic term and a term of abuse

## Ethnic groups and their languages

* Khoekhoe, the main ethnic group for which Hottentot was once the usual term in English
   * Khoekhoe language
* Khoisan, a wider ethnic group including the Khoikhoi for which Hottentot was also widely used
   * Khoisan language
* Hottentot Venus, term used for at least two Khoikhoi women exhibited as freak-show attractions in nineteenth-century Europe

## Species of animals and plants

* Hottentot (fish), a species of sea bream
* Africanis, a landrace of dog sometimes called 'Hottentot hunting dogs'
* Carpobrotus edulis, commonly known as 'hottentot-fig'
* Trachyandra, commonly known as 'hottentot cabbage'
* Blue-billed teal, a species of bird sometimes called the 'Hottentot teal'
* Hottentotta, a genus of scorpion

## Organisations

* Cape Corps, formerly Hottentot Corps, the first Coloured unit to be formed in the South African army
* Terre Haute Hottentots, a baseball team

## Artworks

* The Hottentot, a 1922 film based on a 1920 Broadway play of the same title
* The Hottentot, a 1929 film
* Hottentottilaulu ("The Hottentot Song"), a Finnish song
