Aboriginal

Etymology
From, aborigine being from.

Adjective

 * 1) Of or pertaining to Australian Aboriginal peoples, or their languages.

Related terms

 * (slang, very offensive) Abo, abo
 * (slang, very offensive) Abo, abo

Translations

 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: aboriginsk
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian: абориџински, aboridžinski
 * Ukrainian: абориге́нський, тубі́льний


 * Vietnamese:, , , , ,

Noun

 * 1)  An Aboriginal inhabitant of Australia or other land.

Usage notes
Given that is an adjective suffix (and that  was originally an adjective,  being the original noun), the use of  as a noun was for a time considered incorrect. Use of aboriginal or Aboriginal as a noun to refer to a person is considered offensive by some.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Cherokee: ᏅᏁᎯᏯ
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: aborigeno
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek: Αβορίγινας
 * Korean: 호주 원주민의
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, aboriginer
 * Nukunu: thuṛa
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: Абориџин
 * Spanish:, aboriginal
 * Ukrainian: ,


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: alkuperäinen asukas,
 * French:
 * German:, , , , ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, urinnbygger, urinnvåner
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:, , , коренно́й жи́тель,
 * Serbo-Croatian: абориџин, aboridžin, домородац,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian:, , , тузе́мець, уродже́нець


 * Crimean Tatar:
 * Interlingua:

Proper noun

 * 1) Any of the native languages spoken by Australian aborigines.

Usage notes
In Canada, is most commonly capitalized (indicated by its status as the main headword in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary). The term has official status in the Constitution Act of 1982, and while recognizing that it is encountered in lowercase, since 1994 the Government of Canada has recommended the word be always capitalized (like, for example,, , and ) and that it be used as a modifier, not a proper noun. It is used in this way by the Canadian Hansard and the Canadian Oxford Dictionary.

The U.S. Chicago Manual of Style recommends to capitalize ethnic groups and their associated adjectives: “Aborigines; an Aborigine; Aboriginal art”.