Negro

See also: negro, négro, and ñegro

English

Alternative forms

• negro

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish negro (“black”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈniːɡɹəʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈniːɡɹoʊ/
  • (Southern American English, dated) IPA^(key): /ˈnɪɡɹə/

Noun

Negro (plural Negroes or Negros)

1. (dated, often offensive) A black person; a person 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

black person

• 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)

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

  Cantonese: 黑人 (hak¹ jan⁴)

  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
• Esperanto: negro (eo), nigrulo
• Estonian: neeger (et)
• Faroese: nekari m
• Finnish: neekeri (fi)
• French: nègre (fr) m
• Galician: negro (gl) m
• Georgian: ზანგი (zangi), ნეგრი (negri)
• German: Neger (de) m (dated, derogatory), Negerin (de) f (dated, derogatory), Mohr (de) m (dated), Mohrin (de) 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), हबशी (hi) m (habśī), हब्शी m (habśī), हबशिन (hi) f (habśin), हबसी (hi) m (habsī)
• Hungarian: néger (hu)
• Icelandic: svertingi m, blökkumaður m, negri m, blámaður m
• Indonesian: negro (id)
• Italian: nero (it) m, nera (it) f, negro (it) m
• 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

• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: муринъ m (murinŭ)

• Pashto: زنګي‎ m (zangí), تور پوستى‎ m or f (torpóstay), تورپوستکی‎ m or f (torpostə́kay), حبشى‎ m or f (habašáy)
• 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 (sv) 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, Rengo, Rogen, ergon, genro, goner, grone, ornge, reong

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Galician

Etymology

From negro, "dark", "black".

Proper noun

Negro m

1. A surname​.

References

• “Negro” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “Negro” in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish negro

Noun

Negro

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