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हब्शी — meaning in English

habśī

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English meaning

  • African adj Relating to or coming from the continent of Africa.
  • Ethiopian adj Relating to Ethiopia, its people, or its culture.
  • negro noun A dated and now offensive term for a Black person, once in common formal use but now considered outdated and inappropriate.
  • nigga noun An informal variant spelling and pronunciation of the slur "nigger," now also used by some Black speakers (especially in African American Vernacular English and hip-hop culture) as a casual, sometimes affectionate, term of address among themselves.
  • nigger noun An extremely offensive racial slur used to refer to a Black person. Considered one of the most inflammatory words in English and avoided in almost all contexts outside quotation, historical discussion, or reclaimed use within some Black communities.

Senses

हब्शी is used for these senses in English:

African — full definition

  1. adj Relating to or coming from the continent of Africa.
  2. noun A person from Africa, or a person of African descent.

Ethiopian — full definition

  1. adj Relating to Ethiopia, its people, or its culture.
  2. noun A person from Ethiopia or of Ethiopian descent.

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