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English
Etymology
Back-formation from aborigines.
Pronunciation
Noun
aborigine (countable and uncountable, plural aborigines)
- A native inhabitant of a country; a member of the original people.
- (in the plural) The native flora and fauna of an area.
Usage notes
- Usually capitalized in Australian contexts, Aborigine. Today considered offensive; more appropriate terms would be "Aboriginal person" or "indigenous Australian".
- Fowler's 3rd edition considers this singular to be "etymologically indefensible" notwithstanding its having become the established form in Australia since 1829. This is in reference to its derivation from aborigines, which was not actually formed as aborigine + -s but is the historically original word.
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
aboriginal inhabitant of a country
- Arabic: سَاكِن أَصْلِيّ (sākin ʔaṣliyy)
- Bulgarian: абориге́н (bg) m (aborigén), тузе́мец (bg) m (tuzémec)
- Catalan: aborigen m or f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 原住民 (zh) (yuánzhùmín), 土著 (zh) (tǔzhù)
- Czech: domorodec (cs) m
- Danish: aboriginer (da) c
- Finnish: alkuasukas (fi)
- French: aborigène (fr) m or f, autochtone (fr) m or f
- Georgian: მკვიდრი (mḳvidri), ადგილობრივი (adgilobrivi), აბორიგენი (aborigeni)
- German: Aborigine (de) m, Urbewohner m
- Greek: ιθαγενής (el) (ithagenís)
- Hungarian: bennszülött (hu)
- Icelandic: frumbyggi (is) m
- Indonesian: aborigin
- Irish: bundúchasach m
- Italian: aborigeno (it)
- Japanese: アボリジニ (ja) (aborijini), 原住民 (ja) (げんじゅうみん, genjūmin)
- Korean: 원주민 (ko) (wonjumin), 토착민 (ko) (tochangmin)
- Macedonian: домородец m (domorodec)
- Malay: orang asli
- Manx: bun-cummaltagh m, bun-dooghyssagh m
- Mongolian: абориген (aborigen), уугуул хүн (uuguul xün)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: aborigin (no) m, aboriginer m
- Polish: aborygen (pl) m, autochton (pl) m, krajowiec (pl) m, tubylec (pl) m
- Portuguese: aborígene (pt) m or f, nativo (pt) m, indígena (pt) m or f
- Russian: абориге́н (ru) m (aborigén) (usually of Australian aborigines only), тузе́мец (ru) m (tuzémec), коренно́й жи́тель (ru) m (korennój žítelʹ), автохто́н (ru) m (avtoxtón) (rare, scientific)
- Spanish: aborigen (es) m or f, indígena (es) m or f
- Tok Pisin: kanaka
- Turkish: asıl yerli
- Ukrainian: абориге́н (uk) m (aboryhén)
- Welsh: brodor m, cynfrodor m
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “aborigine”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 6.
Further reading
Anagrams
Finnish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English aborigine.
Pronunciation
Noun
aborigine (rare)
- Aborigine (aboriginal Australian)
Declension
See also
Latin
Adjective
aborigine
- vocative masculine singular of aboriginus