Negro

See also: negro, négro, and ñegro

English

Etymology

From Spanish negro (“black”).

Alternative forms

• negro

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈniːɡɹəʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈniːɡɹo/

Noun

Negro (plural Negroes or Negros)

1. (dated) A person with black or dark brown skin and of sub-Saharan African descent.
   • 1963, Martin Luther King, Letter from a Birmingham Jail,

     Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself, and that is what has happened to the American Negro. Something within has reminded him of his birthright of freedom, and something without has reminded him that it can be gained.

Hyponyms

• negress / Negress

Derived terms

Derived terms

• negress / Negress
• Negrohood

• negroid / Negroid
• negroization

Translations

person with dark skin

• Afrikaans: neger
• Albanian: arap (sq), zezak (sq)
• Arabic: زِنْجِيّ‏‎ m (zinjiyy), زَنْجِيّ‏‎ m (zanjiyy), أَسْوَد‏‎ (ar) m (ʾaswad), سَوْدَاء‏‎ f (sawdāʾ)
• Armenian: նեգր (hy) (negr), սեւական (sewakan) (informal)

  Old Armenian: խափշիկ (xapʿšik)

• Azeri: zənci (az), neqr
• Belarusian: негр m (njehr), негрыця́нка f (njehrycjánka)
• Bengali: নিগ্রো (nigro)
• Bulgarian: не́гър (bg) m (négǎr), не́гърка f (négǎrka)
• Burmese: ကပ္ပလီ (my) (kappa.li)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 黑人 (zh) (hēirén)

  Min Nan: 烏人, 乌人 (o͘-lâng)

• Chiricahua: (Chiricahua) indaadiłhiłú, (Chiricahua) indaa diłhilénde, (Mescalero) łizhínde, (Mescalero) t’eeshínde
• Czech: černoch (cs) m, černoška (cs) f
• Danish: neger (da) c
• Dutch: neger (nl) m, negerin (nl) f
• Estonian: neeger
• Faroese: nekari m
• Finnish: neekeri (fi)
• French: nègre (fr) m
• Georgian: ზანგი (zangi), ნეგრი (negri)
• German: Neger (de) m (dated, derogatory), Negerin (de) f (dated, derogatory), Mohr (de) m (dated), Mohrin f (dated), Maximalpigmentierter m (humorous), Negerlein n (diminutive), Negerchen n (diminutive)
• Greek: νέγρος (el) m (négros), νέγρα (el) f (négra)
• Hebrew: כּוּשִׁי‏‎ (he) m (kúshi)
• Hindi: नीग्रो (hi) (nīgro)
• Hungarian: néger (hu)
• Icelandic: svertingi m, blökkumaður m, negri m, blámaður m
• Indonesian: negro (id)
• Italian: nero (it) m, nera (it) f
• Japanese: 黒人 (ja) (こくじん, kokujin)
• Kazakh: дәңгі (däñgi), зәңгі (zäñgi), негр (negr)
• Khmer: ជនជាតិនីក្រូ (cɔɔn ciet niikroo)
• Korean: 흑인 (ko) (heugin) (黑人 (ko))
• Kyrgyz: негр (ky) (negr)
• Lao: ແຂກດຳ (khǣk dam)

• Latvian: nēģeris m
• Lithuanian: negras m
• Macedonian: црнец m (crnec), црнка f (crnka)
• Malay: negro
• Maori: mangumangu, kirimangu
• Mongolian: негр (mn) (negr)
• Navajo: Naakaii łizhinii, Zhinii
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: neger (no) m

  Nynorsk: neger m

• Persian: زنگی‏‎ (fa) (zangi)
• Polish: murzyn (pl) m, murzynka (pl) f
• Portuguese: negro (pt) m, negra (pt) f
• Romanian: negru (ro) m, negresă (ro) f
• Russian: (neutral) негр (ru) m (negr), негритя́нка (ru) f (negritjánka), ара́п (ru) m (aráp) (dated), ара́пка (ru) f (arápka) (dated)
• Scottish Gaelic: duine dubh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: црнац m, црнкиња f

  Roman: crnac m, crnkinja (sh) f

• Sinhalese: නීග්‍රෝ (si) (nīg‍rō)
• Slovak: černoch (sk) m, černoška (sk) f
• Slovene: črnec m
• Spanish: negro (es) m, negra (es) f
• Swedish: neger (sv), negress f
• Tajik: зангӣ (tg) (zangī)
• Telugu: నీగ్రో (nīgrō)
• Thai: คนผิวดำ (kon-pǐu-dam), คนดำ (kon-dam), นิโกร (ní-groo), แขกดำ (kɛ̀ɛk-dam)
• Turkish: zenci (tr)
• Turkmen: negr
• Ukrainian: му́рин m (múryn), му́ринка f (múrynka), негр m (nehr), негритя́нка f (nehrytjánka)
• Urdu: نیگرو‏‎ (nīgro)
• Uyghur: نېگر‏‎ (nëgr)
• Uzbek: habash (uz), zanji (uz), barzangi (uz), negr (uz)
• Vietnamese: người da đen
• Western Apache: Indaa diłhiłé, Innaa diłhiłé, Ndaa diłhiłé, Nnaa diłhiłé
• Yiddish: נעגער‏‎ m (neger), נעגערטע‏‎ f (negerte)

Anagrams

• Egnor, Goren, Groen, Norge, Rogen, ergon, genro, goner, grone, ornge, reong

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Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowing from English, from Spanish negro

Noun

Negro

1. (usually derogatory and ethnic slur) an African, especially those of sub-Saharan origin.