negress

Wikipedia

English

Etymology

From French nègress, from nègre. Equivalent to Negro +‎ -ess.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈniːɡrɪs/, X-SAMPA: /"ni:grəs/

Noun

negress (plural negresses)

1. (dated, literary, now considered offensive or ethnic slur) A black female.

Usage notes

• In non-black societies its connotation carries an exoticism or mysticism associated with a dark skinned female of African decent.

Translations

A black female

• Arabic: زنجية (ar) (zinjíyya, zanjíyya) f, سوداء (ar) (sawdāʾ) f
• Belarusian: негрыцянка (be) (nehrycjánka) f 
• Bulgarian: негърка (bg) (négǎrka) f 
• Czech: černoška (cs) f
• Dutch: negerin (nl) f, negervrouw (nl) f, zwarte (nl) f
• Esperanto: negrino (eo)
• French: négresse (fr) f, noire (fr) f
• German: Negerin (de) f
• Greek: νέγρη (el) (négri) f 
• Italian: nera (it) f
• Lithuanian: negrė (lt) f

• Macedonian: црнка (mk) (c'rnka) f
• Polish: murzynka (pl) f
• Portuguese: negra (pt) f
• Russian: негритянка (ru) (negritjánka) f 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: црнкиња (sh) f

  Roman: crnkinja (sh) f

• Slovak: černoška (sk) f
• Spanish: negra (es) f
• Swedish: negress (sv) c
• Ukrainian: муринка (uk) (múrynka) f , негритянка (uk) (nehrytjánka) f 

Related terms

• negro
• negroid