negress

See also: Negress

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French négresse, from nègre. Equivalent to Negro +‎ -ess.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈniːɡɹɪs/

Noun

negress (plural negresses)

1. (dated, literary, now offensive and an ethnic slur) A black female.

Synonyms

• (derogatory term for black woman): sheboon

Related terms

• negro
• negroid

Translations

A black female

• Arabic: زِنْجِيَّة f (zinjiyya), زَنْجِيَّة f (zanjiyya), سَوْدَاء f (sawdāʔ)
• Belarusian: негрыця́нка f (njehrycjánka)
• Bulgarian: не́гърка f (négǎrka)
• Czech: černoška (cs) f
• Dutch: negerin (nl) f, negervrouw f, zwarte (nl) f
• Esperanto: negrino
• Finnish: neekerinainen
• French: négresse (fr) f, noire (fr) f
• German: Negerin (de) f
• Greek: νέγρη f (négri), αραπίνα (el) f (arapína)
• Italian: nera (it) f, negra (it) f
• Lithuanian: negrė f
• Macedonian: црнка f (crnka)
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• Persian: دده‌سیاه (dade-siyâh)
• Polish: murzynka (pl) f
• Portuguese: negra (pt) f
• Romanian: negresă (ro) f
• Russian: негритя́нка (ru) f (negritjánka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: црнкиња f

  Roman: crnkinja (sh) f

• Slovak: černoška (sk) f
• Spanish: negra (es) f
• Swedish: negress (sv) c
• Ukrainian: му́ринка f (múrynka), негритя́нка f (nehrytjánka)

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