User:Benwing2/black

Etymology
From, , , from , from (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), from , possibly from  (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬). More at.

Adjective

 * 1)  Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
 * 2)  Without light.
 * 3)  Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.
 * 4)  Designated for use by those ethnic groups which have dark pigmentation of the skin.
 * black drinking fountain; black hospital
 * 1)  Of the spades or clubs suits. Compare
 * I got two red queens, he got one of the black queens.
 * 1) Bad; evil; ill-omened.
 * 2) * 1655, Benjamin Needler, Expository notes, with practical observations; towards the opening of the five first chapters of the first book of Moses called Genesis. London: N. Webb and W. Grantham, page 168.
 * ...what a black day would that be, when the Ordinances of Jesus Christ should as it were be excommunicated, and cast out of the Church of Christ.
 * 1) * 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
 * Nor were there wanting some, who, after the departure of Jenny, insinuated that she was spirited away with a design too black to be mentioned, and who gave frequent hints that a legal inquiry ought to be made into the whole matter, and that some people should be forced to produce the girl.
 * 1) Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen.
 * He shot her a black look.
 * 1) Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.
 * 2) * 1866, The Contemporary Review, London: A. Strahan, page 338.
 * Foodstuffs were rationed and, as in other countries in a similar situation, the black market was flourishing.
 * 1)  Overcrowded.
 * 2)  Without any cream, milk, or creamer.
 * Jim drinks his coffee black, but Ellen prefers it with creamer.
 * 1)  Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black" set (in chess the set used by the player who moves second).
 * The black pieces in this chess set are made of dark blue glass.
 * 1)  Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color. Compare.
 * Compare two Unicode symbols: ☞ = "WHITE RIGHT POINTING INDEX"; ☛ = BLACK RIGHT POINTING INDEX
 * 1)  Related to the  of Germany.
 * After the election, the parties united in a black-yellow alliance.
 * 1) Relating to an initiative whose existence or exact nature must remain withheld from the general public.
 * 5 percent of the Defense Department funding will go to black projects.
 * 1) Protestant, often with the implication of being militantly pro-British or anti-Catholic
 * Originally "the Black North" meant west Ulster, then Protestant east Ulster. Compare also blackmouth ["Presbyterian"] and the Royal Black Institution.
 * 1) *1914 May 27, "Review of The North Afire by W. Douglas Newton", The Sketch: A Journal of Art and Actuality, volume 86, page t:
 * Now April's brother, once also holding a commission in that regiment, was an Ulster Volunteer, her father a staunch, black Protestant, her family tremulously "loyal" to the country whose Parliament was turning them out of its councils.
 * 1) *1985 April, J. A. Weaver, "John Henry Biggart 1905-1979 — A portrait in respect and affection", Ulster Medical Journal, volume 54, number 1, page 1:
 * He [Sir John Henry Biggart] was personally amused at having once been called "a black bastard".
 * 1) *2007 September 6, Fintan O'Toole, "Diary", London Review of Books volume 29, number 17, page 35:
 * He had been playing Gaelic football for Lisnaskea Emmets, his local team in County Fermanagh, against a team from nearby Brookeborough, when someone from the opposing team called him a ‘black cunt’. ‘Black’, in this case, was a reference not to the colour of his skin but to his religion. It is short for ‘Black Protestant’, a long-standing term of sectarian abuse.
 * black birch, black locust, black rhino
 * black birch, black locust, black rhino
 * black birch, black locust, black rhino

Synonyms

 * ; swart

Antonyms

 * , d, lit
 * , d, lit

Translations

 * Abkhaz: аиқәаҵәа
 * Acehnese: itam
 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: ጥቁር
 * Arabic:, سَوْدَاء, سُود
 * Moroccan Arabic: كحال
 * Armenian: սև
 * Aromanian: negru,
 * Asháninka: cheenkari, kisaari
 * Assamese: ক‌’লা, কুলা
 * Asturian: ñegru, negru, prietu
 * Atikamekw: makatewaw
 * Avar: чӏегӏера
 * Aymara: ch’iyara
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Balinese: badeng
 * Banjarese: hirang
 * Bashkir: ҡара
 * Basque: beltz
 * Belarusian: чо́рны
 * Bengali: কালো, কাল
 * Breton:
 * Buginese: ma-lotoŋ
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ,
 * Buryat: хара
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: itom
 * Chamicuro: kosewa
 * Chechen: ӏаьржа
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:, 黑色
 * Mandarin:, , 烏色, 乌色
 * Min Dong: 乌
 * Min Nan: 黑, 黑色,, 乌色
 * Chuukese: chon
 * Chuvash: хура
 * Coptic: ⲭⲁⲙⲉ
 * Cornish: du
 * Corsican:
 * Czech:
 * Dalmatian: fosc
 * Danish:
 * Dogrib: dezǫ
 * Dolgan: кара
 * Dutch:
 * Dzongkha: གནགཔོ
 * Egyptian:
 * Elfdalian: swart
 * Erzya: раужо
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Ewe: yibɔ
 * Faroese: svartur
 * Fijian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: neri
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐍃𐍅𐌰𐍂𐍄𐍃
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: μέλας
 * Greenlandic:
 * Gujarati:
 * Halkomelem:
 * Vancouver Island:
 * Hawaiian: ʻeleʻele
 * Hebrew:, שחורה
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hopi: qömvi
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Igbo: nwa
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua:
 * Irish:
 * Istriot: nìgaro, nìgro
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 黒色
 * Javanese: ireŋ, cemeŋ, hirěng
 * Jingpho: chyang
 * Kalmyk: хар
 * Kannada:
 * Kapampangan: matuling
 * Karachay-Balkar: къара
 * Kazakh:
 * Khakas: хара
 * Khmer:
 * Komi-Permyak: сьӧд
 * Kongo: ndombe
 * Korean: ,
 * Kwak'wala: (all black),  (black on the inside, eg. a canoe),  (black on top, eg. someone's head)
 * Kumyk: къара
 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmanji:
 * Sorani:
 * Kyrgyz:, күңүрт кара, , , , , , , ,
 * Ladin: fosch
 * Lao: ດຳ
 * Latgalian: malns
 * Latin: ,
 * Latvian: melns
 * Lhao Vo: no,
 * Ligurian: néigro
 * Limburgish:
 * Lingala: moíndo
 * Lithuanian: júodas
 * Low German:
 * German Low German:
 * Lü: ᦡᧄ


 * Macedonian: црн
 * Madurese: celleng
 * Makasar: le'leng
 * Malagasy:
 * Malay:, , lotong, lutung, lutong
 * Jawi: هيتم, اسود, لوتوڠ
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese:, sewda, suwed
 * Manchu: ᠰᠠᡥᠠᠯᡳᠶᠠᠨ
 * Manx: doo
 * Maori:
 * Marathi: काळा
 * Maricopa: nilyig
 * Minangkabau: itam
 * Mizo: dum
 * Mongolian:
 * Mopan Maya: bʼox
 * Nafaanra: wɔɔ
 * Nahuatl:
 * Classical: tlīltic, capotztic
 * Nama: ǂnū
 * Nauruan: ; etañañ, etaŋaŋ
 * Navajo: łizhin
 * Neapolitan: niro
 * Nepali:
 * Ngazidja Comorian: ɗu
 * Nias: a-itö
 * Nogai: кара
 * Norman: nièr, né, néthe, naithe
 * North Frisian:
 * Föhr: suart
 * Hallig: süürt
 * Mooring, Wiedingharde: suurt
 * Northern Sami: čáhppes
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Nottoway-Meherrin: gahuntee
 * Novial: nigri
 * Nootka:
 * O'odham: chuk
 * Old Church Slavonic: чрьнъ
 * Old English: blæc, sweart
 * Old Norse: svartr, blakkr
 * Ossetian: сау
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Punjabi:
 * Quechua: yana
 * Quileute: shĺpa
 * Rapa Nui: kere kere, uri uri
 * Rohingya: hala
 * Romani: kalo
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: nair
 * Russian: ,
 * Saanich:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Sasak: bidəŋ
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: цр̑н
 * Roman:
 * Shona: dema
 * Shor: қара
 * Sicilian:
 * Sinhalese: කළු
 * Slovak: čierny
 * Slovene:
 * Somali:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: carny
 * Upper Sorbian:
 * Southern Altai: кара
 * Spanish:
 * Sundanese: hideung
 * Svan: მეშხე
 * Swahili: eusi
 * Swazi: mnyáma
 * Swedish:
 * Sylheti: ꠇꠣꠟꠣ
 * Tachawit: aberkan
 * Tagalog:
 * Tahitian: ʻereʻere
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu: ,
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: ནག་པོ
 * Tongan: ʻuliʻuli
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: gara
 * Udmurt: сьöд
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: کالا, سیاہ
 * Uyghur:
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese:, đen thui
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:
 * White Hmong:
 * Winnebago: seep
 * Wolof: kawe-yolet
 * Yagnobi: шов
 * Yakut: хара
 * Yiddish: שוואַרץ
 * Zazaki: siya (c)
 * Zhuang: ndaem, fonx
 * Zulu: mnyama


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * Georgian: ბნელი, მუქი, ბუნდოვანი
 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:, ,
 * Italian:
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani:
 * Macedonian: црн, темен


 * Malay: gelap
 * Mizo: thim
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: tmavý
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: eusi
 * Swedish: ,
 * Telugu:
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Zazaki: tarı


 * Arabic: زِنْجِيّ, زَنْجِيّ,, حَامِيّ
 * Armenian: սևամորթ,
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: černošský
 * Dutch:, (sometimes offensive)
 * Esperanto: nigrula
 * Estonian: neeger, mustanahaline
 * Ewe: ameyibɔ
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Indonesian: orang negro, orang kulit hitam
 * Irish:
 * Italian:


 * Korean:
 * Latin: ,
 * Macedonian: црн
 * Malagasy:
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: سیاه‌پوست,
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:, gorm
 * Slovak: černošský
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: eusi, mweusi
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Vietnamese: (da)
 * Volapük: bläganik,  hibläganik,  jibläganik
 * Zazaki: siyak


 * Finnish: mustien


 * Finnish:


 * Zazaki: siya


 * Finnish: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Macedonian: црн
 * Malay: gelap


 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: temný, čierny
 * Turkish:


 * Finnish: synkeä


 * Hungarian:
 * Slovak: temný


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: ბნელი
 * German:
 * Greek:


 * Hungarian:
 * Macedonian: црн
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Slovak: čierny
 * Swahili: eusi


 * Finnish: mustanaan
 * French:


 * Swahili:


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Macedonian: црн


 * Mizo: sen
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:


 * Hungarian:
 * Macedonian: црн
 * Malagasy: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Slovak: čierny


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish: ,


 * Guerrero Amuzgo:
 * Manchu:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Tunica:

Noun

 * 1)  The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed.
 * 2) * Shakespeare
 * Black is the badge of hell, / The hue of dungeons, and the suit of night.
 * 1)  A black dye or pigment.
 * 2)  A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
 * 3)  Black cloth hung up at funerals.
 * 4) * 1625, Francis Bacon, "Of Death", Essays:
 * Groans, and convulsions, and a discolored face, and friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like, show death terrible.
 * 1)  A person of African, Aborigine, or Maori descent; a dark-skinned person.
 * 2) * 2004, Anthony Joseph Paul Cortese, Provocateur: Images of Women and Minorities in Advertising (page 108)
 * Prize-winning books continue a trend toward increased representation of blacks, accounting for most of the books with exclusively black characters.
 * 1)  The black ball.
 * 2)  The edge of home plate
 * 3)  A type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
 * 4)  Blackcurrant syrup (in mixed drinks, e.g. snakebite and black, cider and black).
 * 5)  The person playing with the black set of pieces.
 * At this point black makes a disastrous move.
 * 1)  Part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black.
 * 2) * Sir K. Digby
 * the black or sight of the eye
 * 1)  A stain; a spot.
 * 2) * Rowley
 * defiling her white lawn of chastity with ugly blacks of lust
 * defiling her white lawn of chastity with ugly blacks of lust

Synonyms

 * blackness
 * African American, Afro-American , person of color or person of colour , person of African descent
 * Negro
 * coon, darkie or darky, nigger
 * Negro
 * coon, darkie or darky, nigger

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Akan: tuntum
 * Akkadian 𒈪
 * Albanian: i zi, e zezë
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: սև
 * Assamese: ক’লা
 * Asturian: ñegru, negru
 * Basque: beltz
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: itom
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 黑色
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: nigro
 * Estonian:
 * Ewe: yibɔ
 * Faroese: svartur
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hausa: bak̑ī
 * Hawaiian: ʻeleʻele
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Javanese: ,
 * Standard:
 * Sundanese: hideung
 * Interlingua: nigro
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kannada:
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Lao: ດຳ
 * Latgalian: malns, malna
 * Latin: ,
 * Latvian: melns, melna
 * Ligurian: néigro
 * Lithuanian: juoduma, juodas


 * Macedonian: црна
 * Malagasy:
 * Malay:, , lotong, lutung, lutong
 * Jawi: هيتم, اسود, لوتوڠ
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese:
 * Manx: doo
 * Maori:
 * Maricopa: nilyig
 * Montagnais: kakashteuat
 * Navajo: łizhiní
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Novial: nigrum
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: црна
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: čierna
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: carne
 * Spanish:
 * Sumerian: 𒈪
 * Swedish:
 * Sylheti: ꠇꠣꠟꠣ
 * Classical Syriac: ܐܘܟܡܐ
 * Tagalog:
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu:
 * Tetum: metan
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: gara
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: کالا, سیاہ
 * Uyghur:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:
 * Winnebago: seep
 * Yao: dudú
 * Yoruba: àwo dúdú
 * Yup'ik: tunguuq
 * Zazaki: siya
 * Zulu: mnyama


 * Afrikaans:
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Ewe: yibɔ
 * Finnish:, musta väriaine
 * German: ,


 * Greek:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Slovak: čerň
 * Swedish:
 * Vietnamese: màu đen


 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Malagasy:


 * Portuguese: ,
 * Slovak: čierna
 * Vietnamese: màu đen


 * Finnish: musta vaate


 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: زِنْجِيّ, زَنْجِيّ,, سَوْدَاء
 * Armenian: սևամորթ,, սեւական
 * Belarusian: негр, негрыця́нка
 * Bulgarian:, не́гърка
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Chiricahua: indaadiłhiłú, indaa diłhilénde (Chiricahua); łizhínde, tʼeeshínde (Mescalero)
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, neger ,
 * Esperanto: nigrulo
 * Ewe: ameyibɔ
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German:  ( def.)
 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: duine gorm
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Latin: aetheops


 * Lithuanian: negras, negrė
 * Macedonian: црнец, црнка
 * Navajo: Naakaii Łizhinii (African, African-American), Naahiłii (African-American)
 * Ngazidja Comorian: mndru muɗu
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: سیاه‌پوست
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, ; , (usually as adjectives), ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: црнац, црнкиња
 * Roman: crnac,
 * Slovak: černoch, černoška
 * Slovene: črnec
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: คนผิวดำ
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: му́рин, му́ринка, негр, негритя́нка
 * Vietnamese: người da đen, người đen
 * Volapük:,  hiblägan,  jiblägan
 * Western Apache: Indaa diłhiłé, Innaa diłhiłé, Ndaa diłhiłé, Nnaa diłhiłé
 * White Hmong: dub
 * Zazaki: siyak


 * Finnish:, musta pallo
 * German:
 * Greek:


 * Hungarian:
 * Romanian: neagră
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish:

Verb

 * 1) To make black, to blacken.


 * 1) * 1859, Oliver Optic, Poor and Proud; or, The Fortunes of Katy Redburn, a Story for Young Folks
 * "I don't want to fight; but you are a mean, dirty blackguard, or you wouldn't have treated a girl like that," replied Tommy, standing as stiff as a stake before the bully.
 * "Say that again, and I'll black your eye for you."
 * 1) * 1911, Edna Ferber, Buttered Side Down
 * Ted, you can black your face, and dye your hair, and squint, and some fine day, sooner or later, somebody'll come along and blab the whole thing.
 * 1) * 1922, John Galsworthy, A Family Man: In Three Acts
 * I saw red, and instead of a cab I fetched that policeman. Of course father did black his eye.
 * 1) To apply blacking to something.
 * 2) * 1853, Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin
 * ...he must catch, curry, and saddle his own horse; he must black his own brogans (for he will not be able to buy boots).
 * 1) * 1861, George William Curtis, Trumps: A Novel
 * But in a moment he went to Greenidge's bedside, and said, shyly, in a low voice, "Shall I black your boots for you?"
 * 1) * 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson
 * Loving you, I could conceive no life sweeter than hers — to be always near you; to black your boots, carry up your coals, scrub your doorstep; always to be working for you, hard and humbly and without thanks.
 * 1)  To boycott something or someone, usually as part of an industrial dispute.

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Adjective

 * 1) relating to a  person or culture

Noun

 * 1)  person