Aborigine

See also: aborigine, aborígine, and ab origine

English

Etymology

Back-formation from Aborigines.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌæb.əˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ə.ni/, /ˌæb.əˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ɪ.ni/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

Aborigine (plural Aborigines)

1. (offensive, ethnic slur) An Aboriginal person from Australia (descending from, or a member of, one of the indigenous people(s) before British colonization), Aboriginal Australian.

Usage notes

This term is considered highly offensive to Aboriginal Australians.

Synonyms

• Aboriginal
• Aboriginal people
• Aboriginal Australian (neutral term)

Hypernyms

• Australoid
• Indigenous Australian (person of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia)

Translations

Aboriginal person from Australia, Aboriginal Australian

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 澳洲原住民 (zh) (Àozhōu yuánzhùmín), 原住民 (zh) (yuánzhùmín)

• Danish: aboriginer (da) c
• Finnish: aborigine (fi)
• French: Aborigène (fr) m or f
• German: Aborigine (de) m or f
• Greek: Αβορίγινας m (Avoríginas)
• Japanese: アボリジニ (ja) (aborijini)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: aborigin (no) m, aboriginer m

  Nynorsk: aborigin (no) m

• Portuguese: aborígine (pt) m or f
• Romanian: aborigen (ro) m
• Russian: абориге́н (ru) m (aborigén), абориге́нка (ru) f (aborigénka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Абориџин m

  Roman: Aboridžin m

• Swedish: aborigin (sv) c, aboriginer (sv) c
• Turkish: Aborjin (tr)

Anagrams

• baignoire

German

Etymology

English Aborigine

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

Aborigine m (strong, genitive Aborigine or Aborigines, plural Aborigines, feminine Aborigine)

1. Aborigine, Aboriginal Australian (male or of unspecified gender)

   Synonyms: (historic term, now racist) Australneger; australischer Ureinwohner, Ureinwohner Australiens

Declension

Declension of Aborigine [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Aborigine	die	Aborigines
genitive	eines	des	Aborigine, Aborigines	der	Aborigines
dative	einem	dem	Aborigine	den	Aborigines
accusative	einen	den	Aborigine	die	Aborigines

Hyponyms

• Aboriginemann, Aborigine-Mann
• Aboriginefrau, Aborigine-Frau

Derived terms

• Aborigine-Eltern
• Aborigine-Englisch
• Aborigine-Junge
• Aborigine-Kunst
• Aborigine-Künstler
• Aborigine-Künstlerin (could also be: Aborigine-Künstler +‎ -in)
• Aborigine-Kunstwerk
• Aborigine-Leben
• Aborigine-Literatur
• Aborigine-Mädchen
• Aboriginefamilie, Aborigine-Familie
• Aboriginefrau, Aborigine-Frau
• Aboriginekind, Aborigine-Kind
• Aboriginemann, Aborigine-Mann
• Aboriginename
• Aboriginevolk, Aborigine-Volk
• Halbblut-Aborigine
• Vollblut-Aborigine

 

Noun

Aborigine f (genitive Aborigine, plural Aborigines, masculine Aborigine)

1. Aborigine, Aboriginal Australian (female)

   Synonyms: Aboriginefrau, Aborigine-Frau; (historic term, now racist) Australnegerin; australische Ureinwohnerin, Ureinwohnerin Australiens

Declension

Declension of Aborigine [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Aborigine	die	Aborigines
genitive	einer	der	Aborigine	der	Aborigines
dative	einer	der	Aborigine	den	Aborigines
accusative	eine	die	Aborigine	die	Aborigines

Derived terms

• Halbblut-Aborigine
• Vollblut-Aborigine

 

Further reading

• “Aborigine” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Aborigine (Einwohner Australiens)” in Duden online
• “Aborigine (Einwohnerin Australiens)” in Duden online
• “Aborigine” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon