ニグロ

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Japanese

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Etymology

Borrowed from English negro.

Pronunciation

Noun

ニグロ • (niguro) 

  1. (dated, now proscribed, offensive) negro, the racial category of persons typically of African ancestry or a person of that race
    Synonyms: (racial group) 黒色人種 (kokushokujinshu), (person) 黒人 (kokujin)
    • 1934 [1856], Tsuchiya Takao, Tamaki Hajime, Periru Teitoku Nihon enseiki [Commodore Perry’s account of the Japan expedition], volume 1, translation of Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan by Matthew Perry, page 183:
      勞(ろう)働(どう)階(かい)級(きゅう)はマレー族(ぞく)とクーリーとニグロとの三(さん)種(しゅ)から成(な)る。解放(かいほう)されたニグロとその子(し)孫(そん)とは、その性(せい)質(しつ)に於(おい)て及(およ)びその状(じょう)態(たい)に於(おい)て、合(がっ)衆(しゅう)國(こく)に於(お)ける自(じ)由(ゆう)黑(こく)人(じん)と酷(こく)似(じ)してゐる。
      Rōdō kaikyū wa Marē-zoku to Kūrī to Niguro to no sanshu kara naru. Kaihō sareta Niguro to sono shison to wa, sono seishitsu ni oite oyobi sono jōtai ni oite, gasshūkoku ni okeru jiyū kokujin to kokuji shiteiru.
      The working classes come from three races, the Malays, Coolies, and Negroes. Freed Negroes and their descendants are very similar in their disposition and lifestyle to free Blacks in those states.

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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