blak
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editCoined by visual artist Destiny Deacon in 1991 as an alteration of black.
Adjective
editblak
- (Australia) Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander).
- blak identity
- 2021 November 7, Claire [G.] Coleman, “Not quite blak enough: ‘The people who think I am too white to be Aboriginal are all white’”, in The Guardian[1]:
- Every now and then a troll calls me white. It’s a violent colonial tactic: call me white if I identify as blak, call me blak if I wanted to identify as white. […] I am not quite white, not quite blak enough. I wish I was blakker on the outside; as blak on the outside as I feel on the inside.
Derived terms
editNoun
editblak (plural blaks)
- (Australia, often offensive) An Indigenous Australian.
- 2021 November 7, Claire [G.] Coleman, “Not quite blak enough: ‘The people who think I am too white to be Aboriginal are all white’”, in The Guardian[2]:
- The right-wing media, and even some of the more centrist media, draws an artificial line between the bush and the city, the urban blaks and the people from the bush. The division is often coded to skin colour, urban is shorthand for ‘not black enough’ and bush is shorthand for ‘real Aboriginal’.
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editBislama
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editblak
Faroese
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editverbal noun of blaka
Noun
editblak n (genitive singular blaks, plural bløk)
Declension
editn5 | singular | plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | blak | blakið | bløk | bløkini |
accusative | blak | blakið | bløk | bløkini |
dative | blaki | blakinum | bløkum | bløkunum |
genitive | blaks | blaksins | blaka | blakanna |
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editEtymology 2
editFrom Old Irish bláthach via Early Middle Scots [Term?]. Compare Scottish Gaelic blàthach.
Noun
editblak n (genitive singular blaks, uncountable)
Declension
editn5s | singular | |
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indefinite | definite | |
nominative | blak | blakið |
accusative | blak | blakið |
dative | blaki | blakinum |
genitive | blaks | blaksins |
Synonyms
editGerman
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editVerb
editblak
Icelandic
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editPronunciation
editNoun
editblak n (genitive singular blaks, nominative plural blök)
Declension
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derived terms
- bera blak af einhverjum (“to protect someone, to make excuses for someone”)
Middle English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology 1
editFrom Old English blæc, from Proto-Germanic *blakaz.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editblak (plural and weak singular blake, comparative blakker, superlative blakkest)
- black (of a black color)
- black (having black skin)
- black-haired
- dark, blackish
Descendants
editReferences
edit- “blā̆k, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
editAdjective
editblak
- Alternative form of blake (“pale, yellowish”)
See also
editwhit | grey, hor | blak |
red; cremesyn, gernet | citrine, aumbre; broun, tawne | yelow, dorry, gul; canevas |
grasgrene | grene | |
plunket; ewage | asure, livid | blewe, blo, pers |
violet; inde | rose, murrey; purpel, purpur | claret |
Tok Pisin
editEtymology
editAdjective
editblak
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