English [ edit ]
Etymology [ edit ]
ethnic + -ity
Pronunciation [ edit ]
ethnicity (countable and uncountable , plural ethnicities )
The common characteristics of a group of people, especially regarding ancestry , culture , language or national experiences.
2012 March-April, Jan Sapp , “Race Finished”, in American Scientist [1] , volume 100, number 2, page 164:Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity , genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?
An ethnic group .
( casual, euphemistic ) Race ; common ancestry.
Usage notes [ edit ]
In common use, ethnicity is used as a euphemism for the sensitive term race , but with identical meaning: group ancestry and physical characteristics, such as skin color, as in “ethnic Chinese”. In careful use, it refers to any common characteristic or identity, particularly linguistic, national, regional, or religious groups, and can cut across race, such as Hispanic /Latino ; or be a subgroup of a racial group, as in German Texan , Chinese Indonesians , Nuyorican (New York Puerto Rican), etc.
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Translations [ edit ]
the characteristics of an ethnic group
Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Bashkir: милләт ( millät )
Burmese: လူမျိုး (my) ( lu-myui: )
Catalan: ètnia (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 種族 / 种族 (zh) ( zhǒngzú ) , 民族 (zh) ( mínzú )
Danish: etnicitet c
Esperanto: etneco
Estonian: rahvuskuuluvus
Finnish: kansallispiirre
French: ethnicité (fr) f , appartenance ethnique f
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Ethnizität (de) f , Volkszugehörigkeit f , ethnische Zugehörigkeit f
Hebrew: לאום / לְאֹם (he) m ( l'om ) , לאומיות / לְאֻמִּיּוּת (he) f ( l'umiyút )
Hindi: क़ौमियत f ( qaumiyat ) , कौमियत (hi) f ( kaumiyat ) , ज़ात (hi) f ( zāt )
Hungarian: etnikum , etnicitás , származás (hu) , etnikai hovatartozás
Indonesian: kesukuan (id)
Irish: eitneachas m
Italian: etnicità f , etnia (it) f
Japanese: 民族性 ( みんぞくせい, minzokusei ) , 民族 (ja) ( みんぞく, minzoku ) , エスニシティ (ja) ( esunishiti )
Khmer: ជាតិ ពន្ធភាព ( ciət pŭən phiəp )
Korean: 민족 성 (民族性) ( minjokseong )
Lao: please add this translation if you can
Latvian: tautība f
Lithuanian: tautybė f
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Norman: ethnicité f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: etnisitet (no) m
Nynorsk: etnisitet m
Persian: قُومیَّت (fa) ( qowmiyat )
Polish: narodowość (pl) f
Portuguese: etnia (pt) f
Romanian: etnicitate (ro) f
Russian: этни́ческая принадле́жность f ( etníčeskaja prinadléžnostʹ ) , национа́льность (ru) f ( nacionálʹnostʹ ) , наро́дность (ru) f ( naródnostʹ )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ѐтнија f
Roman: ètnija (sh) f
Spanish: etnicidad (es) f
Swedish: etnicitet (sv) c
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: etnik köken
Ukrainian: етні́чна принале́жність f ( etníčna prynaléžnistʹ ) , етні́чність f ( etníčnistʹ ) , націона́льність (uk) f ( nacionálʹnistʹ ) , наро́дність f ( naródnistʹ )
Urdu: قَومِیَّت f ( qaumiyyat )
Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
an ethnic group
Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Bashkir: милләт ( millät )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 民族 (zh) ( mínzú )
Danish: etnisk tilhørsforhold n
Esperanto: etno
Finnish: etnisyys (fi) , kansallisuus (fi)
French: ethnie (fr) f , groupe ethnique f
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: ethnische Gruppe f
Hindi: क़ौम m ( qaum ) , कौम (hi) m ( kaum ) , ज़ात (hi) f ( zāt )
Hungarian: etnikum , etnikai csoport
Indonesian: etnis (id) , suku bangsa (id)
Irish: eitneacht f
Japanese: 民族 (ja) ( みんぞく, minzoku )
Kazakh: ұлт (kk) ( ūlt )
Khmer: ក្រុម ជនជាតិ ( krom cɔɔn ciət )
Korean: 민족(民族) (ko) ( minjok )
Lao: please add this translation if you can
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Occitan: etnia (oc) f
Persian: قُوم (fa) ( qowm )
Portuguese: etnia (pt)
Romanian: grup etnic n , etnie (ro) f
Russian: этни́ческая гру́ппа f ( etníčeskaja grúppa ) , национа́льность (ru) f ( nacionálʹnostʹ ) , э́тнос (ru) m ( étnos )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: етницѝте̄т m , ѐтнија f
Roman: etnicìtēt (sh) m , ètnija (sh) f
Sichuan Yi: ꊿꋅ ( co cux )
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Tibetan: རྒྱལ་ཁོངས ( rgyal khongs )
Uyghur: مىللەتلەر ( milletler )
Vietnamese: dân tộc (vi) (民族 (vi) )