mulatto

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• US: /mʊˈlɑtoʊ/
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• US: [məˈlɑɾoʊ̯]
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• Caribbean: /mʊˈlaːtoː/
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• UK: /m(j)ʊˈlætəʊ/
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• rhymes with -ɑːtəʊ
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• CMU ARPABET: M AH0 L AA1 T OW0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from Portuguese and/or Spanish mulato (“of mixed breed, young mule”), from mulo (“mule”), from Latin mūlus (“mule”). Perhaps an allusion to the hybrid origin of mules. Doublet of mulato.

46 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: خِلَاسِيّ (ḵilāsiyy) — person of mixed black and white descent
• Bulgarian: мулат (mulat) — person of mixed black and white descent
• Bulgarian: мула́тка (mulátka) — person of mixed black and white descent
• Catalan: mulat — person of mixed black and white descent
• Catalan: mulato — person of mixed black and white descent
• Catalan: mulata — person of mixed black and white descent
• Chinese Mandarin: 黑白混血兒 /黑白混血儿 (hēibái hùnxiěr) — person of mixed black and white descent
• Czech: mulat — person of mixed black and white descent
• Czech: mulatka — person of mixed black and white descent
• Danish: mulat — person of mixed black and white descent
• Dutch: mulat — person of mixed black and white descent
• Dutch: mulattin — person of mixed black and white descent
• Dutch: halfbloed — person of mixed black and white descent
• Dutch: dubbelbloed — person of mixed black and white descent
• Finnish: mulatti — person of mixed black and white descent
• French: mulâtre — person of mixed black and white descent
• French: mulâtresse — person of mixed black and white descent
• French: café au lait — person of mixed black and white descent
• German: Mulatte — person of mixed black and white descent
• German: Mulattin — person of mixed black and white descent
• Greek: μιγάς (migás) — person of mixed black and white descent
• Haitian Creole: milat — person of mixed black and white descent
• Hebrew: בן־תערובות (ben-ta'a'rovot) — person of mixed black and white descent
• Hungarian: mulatt — person of mixed black and white descent
• Italian: mulatto — person of mixed black and white descent
• Italian: mulatta — person of mixed black and white descent
• Japanese: ムラート (murāto) — person of mixed black and white descent
• Macedonian: мулат (mulat) — person of mixed black and white descent
• Norwegian Bokmål: mulatt — person of mixed black and white descent
• Norwegian Nynorsk: mulatt — person of mixed black and white descent
• Polish: Mulat — person of mixed black and white descent
• Polish: Mulatka — person of mixed black and white descent
• Portuguese: mulato — person of mixed black and white descent
• Portuguese: mulata — person of mixed black and white descent
• Romanian: mulatru — person of mixed black and white descent
• Romanian: mulatră — person of mixed black and white descent
• Russian: мула́т (mulát) — person of mixed black and white descent
• Russian: мула́тка (mulátka) — person of mixed black and white descent
• Slovene: mulat — person of mixed black and white descent
• Spanish: mulato — person of mixed black and white descent
• Spanish: mulata — person of mixed black and white descent
• Swedish: mulatt — person of mixed black and white descent
• Tagalog: mulato — person of mixed black and white descent
• Ukrainian: мула́т (mulát) — person of mixed black and white descent
• Ukrainian: мула́тка (mulátka) — person of mixed black and white descent
• Volapük: mulat — person of mixed black and white descent