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Etymology

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Coined by visual artist Destiny Deacon in 1991 as an alteration of black.

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blak

  1. (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.

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blak (plural blaks)

  1. (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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Etymology

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From English black.

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blak

  1. black

Faroese

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Etymology 1

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verbal noun of blaka

Noun

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blak n (genitive singular blaks, plural bløk)

  1. a thrown object
  2. a throw
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n5 singular plural
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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Etymology 2

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From Old Irish bláthach via Early Middle Scots [Term?]. Compare Scottish Gaelic blàthach.

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blak n (genitive singular blaks, uncountable)

  1. buttermilk
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n5s singular
indefinite definite
nominative blak blakið
accusative blak blakið
dative blaki blakinum
genitive blaks blaksins
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German

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  • Rhymes: -aːk

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blak

  1. singular imperative of blaken
  2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of blaken

Icelandic

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From Old Norse blak.

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blak n (genitive singular blaks, nominative plural blök)

  1. flapping, waving (e.g. in the wind)
  2. light blow
    Synonyms: skellur, högg
  3. (sports) volleyball
  4. the tail of a halibut

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Middle English

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Etymology 1

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From Old English blæc, from Proto-Germanic *blakaz.

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blak (plural and weak singular blake, comparative blakker, superlative blakkest)

  1. black (of a black color)
  2. black (having black skin)
  3. black-haired
  4. dark, blackish
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  • English: black (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: black
  • Yola: bhlock, blaak
  • Danish: blæk
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Etymology 2

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blak

  1. Alternative form of blake (pale, yellowish)

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Colors in Middle English · coloures, hewes (layout · text)
     whit      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

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Etymology

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From English black.

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blak

  1. black
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