| Afrikaans | English |
|---|
| digter | ⇆ bard; ⇆ poet |
| dig | ⇆ close; ⇆ compact; ⇆ dense; ⇆ fast; ⇆ thickly; ⇆ gross; ⇆ join; ⇆ massive; ⇆ write poetry; ⇆ rhyme; ⇆ seal; ⇆ shut; ⇆ thick; ⇆ thick‐growing; ⇆ verse; ⇆ versify |
| digteres | ⇆ poetess |
| digterlik | ⇆ poetic; ⇆ poetical |
| fabeldigter | ⇆ fabulist |
| gesangdigter | ⇆ hymnographer |
| hekeldigter | ⇆ satirist |
| hofdigter | ⇆ laureate; ⇆ poet laureate |
| idilledigter | ⇆ idyllist |
| lierdigter | ⇆ lyric poet |
| mitedigter | ⇆ mythopoet |
| odedigter | ⇆ odist |
| pruldigter | ⇆ poetaster; ⇆ verse‐monger; ⇆ verser |
| psalmdigter | ⇆ psalmist; ⇆ psalmodist |
| skimpdigter | ⇆ satirist |
| sonnetdigter | ⇆ sonneteer |
| spotdigter | ⇆ satirist |
| toneeldigter | ⇆ playwright; ⇆ play‐writer; ⇆ stage writer |
| toondigter | ⇆ composer; ⇆ harmonist; ⇆ harmonizer; ⇆ tone‐poet |
| treurdigter | ⇆ elegiac poet |
| treursangdigter | ⇆ elegist |
| treurspeldigter | ⇆ tragedian |
| volksdigter | ⇆ national poet |