a black person, a Negro (male or of unspecified gender)
çekim: çoğul negers
eş: zwarte, Moor, moor
köken: From earlier negro (“black person”) or from French nègre (“black person”), from Spanish negro (“black person”), from Latin niger (“black”). Doublet of nikker.
creole (a language that arises from the adoption of a pidgin as a first language) · Cape Verdean Creole; Crioulo · crioulo (a horse breed of South America)
çekim: çoğul crioulos
köken: Uncertain but usually associated with cria (“offspring”), criar (“to breed; to rear”). Possibly a corruption of criadouro (“breeding place”).
crow · slur for a dark-skinned person, especially a Roma/Gypsy. Less usual, a slur for a black person
çekim: çoğul ciori · tamlayan ciori
köken: Unknown. Possibly a substratum word of Dacian and ultimately Indo-European origin, related to Albanian sorrë, or borrowed from it; compare Aromanian cioarã, tsoarã. Also seemingly related to several Italo-romance dialect cognates, compare Friulian çore, Calabrian ciola, Neapolitan ciàula, Sicilian ciaula and Tarantino ciola.
aile: a-l râde și ciorile, cât cioara în par, ca cioara în par, ceapa-ciorii, cioară-de-câmp, cioară-de-semănătură, cioară-gulerată, cioară-pucioasă, ciocul-ciorii, ciorărie
A monkey (animal) · A mischievous and uncivilized person, behaving like a monkey. · A dark-skinned person, especially a person of, or primarily of, Negro descent.
çekim: çoğul abekatte
köken: abe (“a monkey, an ape”) + kat (“cat”) Possibly connected to a Continental Germanic word akin to German Meerkatze, Dutch meerkat.