Hottentot

Hottentot may refer to:

Language

• Hottentot (racial term), in English
• Khoekhoe language
• Khoisan language

Peoples

• Khoekhoe, a South African ethnic group
• Khoisan, a wider group including the Khoikhoi

Arts and entertainment

• The Hottentot (1922 film)
• The Hottentot, a 1929 film
• Hottentottilaulu ("The Hottentot Song"), a Finnish song
• Hottentot Venus, one of two Khoikhoi women exhibited as freak-show attractions

Life forms

• Hottentot (fish), a sea bream species
• Africanis, a landrace of dog
• Carpobrotus edulis, or hottentot-fig
• Dioscorea elephantipes, or hottentot bread
• Trachyandra, or hottentot cabbage
• Blue-billed teal, a duck species
• Hottentotta, a scorpion genus

Organisations

• Cape Corps, formerly Hottentot Corps, a South African army unit
• Terre Haute Hottentots, a baseball team