negress

See also: Negress

English

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negro

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• Negress

Etymology

From French négresse, from nègre. Equivalent to Negro +‎ -ess.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈniːɡɹɪs/

Noun

negress (plural negresses)

1. (dated, literary, now offensive and an ethnic slur) A black female.
   • 1860, Walter Thornbury, Turkish Life and Character, volume 1, page 137:

     Directly they were trotted off in their little pea-green and gilt carriage, guardian negress and all, I went into the shop, about which I had all this time been loafingly prowling, and called, clapping my hands, for some violet sherbet, […]

   • 1995, A. J. Verdelle, The Good Negress (book title)

   Synonyms: negrette, niggerette, niggeress, niggress, nigress; see also Thesaurus:person of color

Related terms

• negro
• negroid

Translations

black female

Arabic: زِنْجِيَّة f (zinjiyya), زَنْجِيَّة f (zanjiyya), سَوْدَاء f (sawdāʔ) Belarusian: негрыця́нка f (njehrycjánka) Bulgarian: не́гърка f (négǎrka) Czech: černoška (cs) f Danish: negerinde c Dutch: negerin (nl) f, negervrouw f, zwarte (nl) f Esperanto: negrino Finnish: neekerinainen French: négresse (fr) f, noire (fr) f German: Negerin (de) f, Mohrin (de) f Greek: νέγρη f (négri), αραπίνα (el) f (arapína) Italian: nera (it) f, negra (it) f Lithuanian: negrė f Macedonian: црнка f (crnka) Persian: دده‌سیاه (dade-siyâh) Polish: murzynka (pl) f Portuguese: negra (pt) f Romanian: negresă (ro) f Russian: негритя́нка (ru) f (negritjánka) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: црнкиња f Roman: crnkinja (sh) f Slovak: černoška (sk) f Spanish: negra (es) f, niche (es) Swedish: negrinna (sv), negress (sv) c Ukrainian: му́ринка f (múrynka), негритя́нка f (nehrytjánka)

See also

• Latina
• Muslimah

Anagrams

• Gesners, Sengers, Gessner

Swedish

Etymology

From French négresse.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛsː

Noun

negress c

1. (dated, now offensive) female equivalent of neger: negress

   Synonym: negrinna

Usage notes

Seldom used purely as an ethnic slur, though old-fashioned and often (somewhat) derogatory.

Declension

Declension of negress

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	negress	negress
	definite	negressen	negressens
plural	indefinite	negresser	negressers
	definite	negresserna	negressernas

References

• negress in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker