African

Etymology
Attested as a noun in early New English, Africans , as ,  and  as. From, from , from. The adjective appears in the 16th century, as Affricane, Africane, African.

is from (singular ), the name of an ancient people of North Africa (near Carthage, in modern Tunisia), with the suffix. is formed by addition of the suffix.

Adjective

 * 1) Of or pertaining to Africa.
 * 2) Black;.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Old Albanian: harapes
 * Amharic: አፍሪካዊ
 * Arabic:, أَفْرِيقِيّ
 * Armenian: աֆրիկական, աֆրիկյան
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani: afrikalı
 * Belarusian: афрыка́нскі
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: африка́нски
 * Burmese: အာဖရိက, အာဖရိကန်
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: afrikanskur
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: აფრიკული
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hawaiian: ʻApelika
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, हब्शी
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Irish: Afracach
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: африкалық
 * Khmer: អាហ្វ្រិក
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: Efrîqayî
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao:
 * Latin: Afer,, Africanus
 * Latvian: afrikāņu, afrikānis
 * Lithuanian: afrikiečių,
 * Macedonian: африкански
 * Marathi: आफ्रिकन
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: африк
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Occitan:
 * Odia: ଆଫ୍ରିକୀୟ
 * Pashto: افريقايي
 * Persian:
 * Iranian Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: Afragach
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: а̀фричкӣ, афрѝка̄нскӣ
 * Roman: ,
 * Sicilian: africanu, fricanu
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: kiafrika
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: Aprikahin
 * Tajik: африқоӣ
 * Telugu: ఆఫ్రికను
 * Thai:
 * Tigrinya: ኣፍሪቃዊ
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: afrikaly
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: اَفْرِیقی
 * Uyghur:
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:, Phi Châu
 * Volapük:, Fikopik
 * Welsh: Affricanaidd
 * Yiddish: אַפֿריקאַניש

Noun

 * 1) A native of Africa; also one ethnologically belonging to an African race.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian: ,
 * Arabic:, إِفْرِيقِيَّة
 * Armenian: աֆրիկացի
 * Azerbaijani: afrikalı
 * Belarusian: афрыка́нец, афрыка́нка
 * Bengali:
 * Breton:, , Afrikanek
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese: အာဖရိကတိုက်သူ
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 非洲人
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Faroese: afrikani
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician:, africana
 * Georgian: აფრიკელი
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: Ἄφρος
 * Hawaiian: ʻApelika
 * Hebrew:, אפריקאית
 * Hindi:, हब्शी
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: Afríkumaður, Afríkubúi
 * Ido:,  Afrikanulo,  Afrikanino
 * Irish: Afracach
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: アフリカ人
 * Kazakh: африкалық
 * Korean: 아프리카인, 아프리카 사람
 * Kyrgyz: ,
 * Latin: Āfer
 * Latvian: afrikānis, afrikāniete
 * Lithuanian: ,
 * Macedonian: Африканец, Африканка
 * North Frisian: aafrikooner
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk:
 * Occitan:
 * Odia: ଆଫ୍ରିକୀୟ
 * Ojibwe: makadewiiyaas
 * Pashto: افريقايي
 * Persian:
 * Iranian Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Африка́нац, Афрѝка̄нка
 * Roman:, Afrìkānka
 * Slovak: ,
 * Slovene: afričan, afričanka
 * Sorbian:
 * Upper Sorbian: Afričan, Afričanka
 * Sotho: Moafrika
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: африқоӣ
 * Telugu: ఆఫ్రికను
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: afrikaly
 * Ukrainian:, африка́нка
 * Urdu: اَفْرِیقی
 * Uyghur:
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: người châu Phi, người Phi châu
 * Volapük:,  hi-Frikopan,  ,  Fikopel
 * Welsh: Affricanwr
 * Yiddish: אַפֿריקאַנער, אַפֿריקאַנערין