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Black South Africans used to and some still call "white South Africans" boer. It's a word derived from the Afrikaans word for farmer. They used this because mainly all farms historically belonged to "white South Africans". For that reason it is meant to be offensive as it indirectly means "somebody who is uncultured and lives off the land". Indeed someone who doesn't know anything about city life.

"Ama" is the Xhosa prefix that means "a lot of"
"bhulu" is the Xhosa word for "boer"

The Xhosa people have a difficult time pronouncing "R", because the Xhosa pronounce this letter as the "ch" in Reich. They therefore substituted the "r" at the end of "boer" with the letter ''L". Koreans are also known to do this for the sake of easier pronunciation. Lastly the "oe" sound is in fact "oo" as in moo or goo. The Xhosa people substituted this sound with the letter "u".

So a direct translation should really be "boers", the plural for "boer"

Definition of "boer": (NOUN: A Dutch colonist or descendant of a Dutch colonist in South Africa. ETYMOLOGY: Afrikaans, from Dutch, farmer, from Middle Dutch gheboer, peasant; see bheu- in Indo-European roots)

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