negro

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• General-American: /ˈniɡɹoʊ/
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• obsolete: /ˈnɪɡɹoʊ/
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• Southern-US, dated: /ˈnɪɡɹə/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈniːɡɹəʊ/
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• UK: /ˈniːɡɹəʊ/
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• US: /ˈniːɡɹoʊ/
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• CMU ARPABET: N IY1 G R OW0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from Spanish and Portuguese negro (“black”), from Latin nigrum (“shiny black”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *negw- (“bare; night”). Doublet of noir. Compare nigrescence.

160 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: негър (negǎr) — offensive: relating to the black ethnicity
• Finnish: neekeri- — offensive: relating to the black ethnicity
• French: nègre — offensive: relating to the black ethnicity
• German: schwarz — offensive: relating to the black ethnicity
• Japanese: 黒人 (kokujin) — offensive: relating to the black ethnicity
• Japanese: 黒子 (kuroko) — offensive: relating to the black ethnicity
• Persian: کاکاسیاه (kākāsiyāh) — offensive: relating to the black ethnicity
• Polish: czarny — offensive: relating to the black ethnicity
• Bulgarian: чернокож (černokož) — black or dark brown in color
• German: schwarz — black or dark brown in color
• Italian: nero — black or dark brown in color
• Māori: kirimangu — black or dark brown in color
• Polish: czarny — black or dark brown in color
• Portuguese: negro — black or dark brown in color
• Afrikaans: neger — black person
• Albanian: arap — black person
• Albanian: zezak — black person
• Chiricahua: indaadiłhiłú — black person
• Chiricahua: indaa diłhilénde — black person
• Chiricahua: (Mescalero) łizhínde — black person
• Chiricahua: (Mescalero) t’eeshínde — black person
• Western Apache: Indaa diłhiłé — black person
• Western Apache: Innaa diłhiłé — black person
• Western Apache: Ndaa diłhiłé — black person
• Western Apache: Nnaa diłhiłé — black person
• Arabic: زِنْجِيّ (zinjiyy) — black person
• Arabic: زَنْجِيّ (zanjiyy) — black person
• Arabic: أَسْوَد (ʔaswad) — black person
• Arabic: سَوْدَاء (sawdāʔ) — black person
• Armenian: նեգր (negr) — black person
• Armenian: սեւական (sewakan) — black person
• Old Armenian: խափշիկ (xapʻšik) — black person
• Azerbaijani: zənci — black person
• Azerbaijani: neqr — black person
• Belarusian: негр (njehr) — black person
• Belarusian: негрыця́нка (njehrycjánka) — black person
• Belarusian: му́рын (múryn) — black person
• Belarusian: му́рынка (múrynka) — black person
• Bengali: নিগ্রো (nigrō) — black person
• Bulgarian: не́гър (négǎr) — black person
• Bulgarian: не́гърка (négǎrka) — black person
• Burmese: ကပ္ပလီ (kappa.li) — black person
• Chinese Cantonese: 黑人 (hak1 jan4) — black person
• Chinese: 烏人 /乌人 (o͘-lâng) — black person
• Chinese Mandarin: 黑人 (hēirén) — black person
• Coptic: ⲙⲁⲩⲣⲏⲥ (maurēs) — black person
• Czech: černoch — black person
• Czech: černoška — black person
• Danish: neger — black person
• Dutch: neger — black person
• Dutch: negerin — black person
• Esperanto: negro — black person
• Esperanto: nigrulo — black person
• Estonian: neeger — black person
• Faroese: nekari — black person
• Finnish: neekeri — black person
• French: nègre — black person
• Galician: negro — black person
• Georgian: ზანგი (zangi) — black person
• Georgian: ნეგრი (negri) — black person
• German: Neger — black person
• German: Negerin — black person
• German: Mohr — black person
• German: Mohrin — black person
• German: Maximalpigmentierter — black person
• German: Negerlein — black person
• German: Negerchen — black person
• Greek: νέγρος (négros) — black person
• Greek: νέγρα (négra) — black person
• Hebrew: כּוּשִׁי (kúshi) — black person
• Hindi: नीग्रो (nīgro) — black person
• Hindi: हबशी (habśī) — black person
• Hindi: हब्शी (habśī) — black person
• Hindi: हबशिन (habśin) — black person
• Hindi: हबसी (habsī) — black person
• Hungarian: néger — black person
• Hungarian: fekete — black person
• Icelandic: svertingi — black person
• Icelandic: blökkumaður — black person
• Icelandic: negri — black person
• Icelandic: blámaður — black person
• Indonesian: negro — black person
• Italian: nero — black person
• Italian: nera — black person
• Italian: negro — black person
• Japanese: 黒人 (kokujin) — black person
• Japanese: 黒子 (kuroko) — black person
• Kazakh: дәңгі (däñgı) — black person
• Kazakh: зәңгі (zäñgı) — black person
• Kazakh: негр (negr) — black person
• Khmer: ជនជាតិនីក្រូ (cɔɔn ciet niikroo) — black person
• Korean: 흑인 (heugin) — black person
• Kyrgyz: негр (negr) — black person
• Lao: ແຂກດໍາ (khǣk dam) — black person
• Latvian: nēģeris — black person
• Lithuanian: negras — black person
• Macedonian: црнец (crnec) — black person
• Macedonian: црнка (crnka) — black person
• Malay: negro — black person
• Māori: mangumangu — black person
• Māori: kirimangu — black person
• Mongolian: негр (negr) — black person
• Navajo: Naakaii Łizhinii — black person
• Navajo: Zhinii — black person
• Norwegian Bokmål: neger — black person
• Norwegian Nynorsk: neger — black person
• Church Slavic: муринъ (murinŭ) — black person
• Pashto: زنګي (zangí) — black person
• Pashto: تور پوستى (torpóstay) — black person
• Pashto: تورپوستکی (torpostə́kay) — black person
• Pashto: حبشى (habašáy) — black person
• Persian: زنگی (zangi) — black person
• Polish: murzyn — black person
• Polish: murzynka — black person
• Portuguese: negro — black person
• Portuguese: negra — black person
• Romanian: negru — black person
• Romanian: negresă — black person
• Russian: негр (negr) — black person
• Russian: негритя́нка (negritjánka) — black person
• Russian: ара́п (aráp) — black person
• Russian: ара́пка (arápka) — black person
• Rwanda-Rundi: umwirabura — black person
• Scottish Gaelic: duine dubh — black person
• Serbo-Croatian: црнац — black person
• Serbo-Croatian: црнкиња — black person
• Serbo-Croatian: crnac — black person
• Serbo-Croatian: crnkinja — black person
• Sicilian: nìguru — black person
• Sicilian: nìgura — black person
• Sinhalese: නීග්රෝ (nīgrō) — black person
• Slovak: černoch — black person
• Slovak: černoška — black person
• Slovene: črnec — black person
• Spanish: negro — black person
• Spanish: negra — black person
• Spanish: negrata — black person
• Swedish: neger — black person
• Swedish: negress — black person
• Tajik: зангӣ (zangi) — black person
• Telugu: నీగ్రో (nīgrō) — black person
• Thai: คนผิวดํา (kon-pǐu-dam) — black person
• Thai: คนดํา (kon-dam) — black person
• Thai: นิโกร (ní-groo) — black person
• Thai: แขกดํา (kɛ̀ɛk-dam) — black person
• Turkish: zenci — black person
• Turkmen: negr — black person
• Ukrainian: му́рин (múryn) — black person
• Ukrainian: му́ринка (múrynka) — black person
• Ukrainian: негр (nehr) — black person
• Ukrainian: негритя́нка (nehrytjánka) — black person
• Urdu: نیگرو (nīgro) — black person
• Uyghur: نېگر (nëgr) — black person
• Uzbek: habash — black person
• Uzbek: zanji — black person
• Uzbek: barzangi — black person
• Uzbek: negr — black person
• Vietnamese: người da đen — black person
• Yiddish: נעגער (neger) — black person
• Yiddish: נעגערטע (negerte) — black person