köken: An adaptation of the Castilian Spanish criollo (“homey, local yokel”), from Portuguese crioulo, diminutive of cria (“person raised in one’s house, servant”), from Portuguese criar (“to rear, to bring up”), from Latin creō (“to create”)
in present-day Suriname and various parts of South and Central America, any descendant of African slaves · a Creole, a member of a (Latin) American ethno-cultural group of colonial Iberian blood · a creole language
çekim: çoğul creolen
köken: Borrowed from Portuguese crioulo, but subsequently influenced by French créole.
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”).