blak

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English

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Adjective

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:
      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

Noun

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:
      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’.

Anagrams

Bislama

Etymology

From English black.

Adjective

blak

  1. black

Faroese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

verbal noun of blaka

Noun

blak n (genitive singular blaks, plural bløk)

  1. a thrown object
  2. a throw
Declension
Declension of blak
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
Synonyms
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Irish bláthach via Early Middle Scots . Compare Scottish Gaelic blàthach.

Noun

blak n (genitive singular blaks, uncountable)

  1. buttermilk
Declension
Declension of blak (singular only)
n5s singular
indefinite definite
nominative blak blakið
accusative blak blakið
dative blaki blakinum
genitive blaks blaksins
Synonyms

German

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -aːk

Verb

blak

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

Icelandic

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Etymology

From Old Norse blak.

Pronunciation

Noun

blak n (genitive singular blaks, nominative plural blök)

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

Declension

    Declension of blak
n-s singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative blak blakið blök blökin
accusative blak blakið blök blökin
dative blaki blakinu blökum blökunum
genitive blaks blaksins blaka blakanna

Synonyms

Derived terms

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

Adjective

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
Descendants
  • English: black (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: black
  • Yola: bhlock, blaak
  • Danish: blæk
References

Etymology 2

Adjective

blak

  1. Alternative form of blake (pale, yellowish)

See also

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

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English black.

Adjective

blak

  1. black