Racial in Different Languages
Discover 'Racial' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Racial
Afrikaans rasse | ||
Albanian racor | ||
Amharic የዘር | ||
Arabic عرقي | ||
Armenian ցեղային | ||
Assamese বৰ্ণবাদী | ||
Aymara racial ukat juk’ampinaka | ||
Azerbaijani irqi | ||
Bambara siyako | ||
Basque arraza | ||
Belarusian расавы | ||
Bengali জাতিগত | ||
Bhojpuri नस्लीय बा | ||
Bosnian rasno | ||
Bulgarian расова | ||
Catalan racial | ||
Cebuano rasa | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 种族的 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 種族的 | ||
Corsican razziale | ||
Croatian rasne | ||
Czech rasový | ||
Danish race | ||
Dhivehi ނަސްލީ ގޮތުންނެވެ | ||
Dogri नस्लीय | ||
Dutch ras- | ||
English racial | ||
Esperanto rasa | ||
Estonian rassiline | ||
Ewe ameƒomevinyenye | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) lahi | ||
Finnish rodullinen | ||
French racial | ||
Frisian rasiale | ||
Galician racial | ||
Georgian რასობრივი | ||
German rassistisch | ||
Greek φυλετικός | ||
Guarani racial rehegua | ||
Gujarati વંશીય | ||
Haitian Creole rasyal | ||
Hausa launin fata | ||
Hawaiian lāhui | ||
Hebrew גִזעִי | ||
Hindi जातीय | ||
Hmong haiv neeg | ||
Hungarian faji | ||
Icelandic kynþáttum | ||
Igbo agbụrụ | ||
Ilocano racial | ||
Indonesian rasial | ||
Irish ciníoch | ||
Italian razziale | ||
Japanese 人種 | ||
Javanese ras | ||
Kannada ಜನಾಂಗೀಯ | ||
Kazakh нәсілдік | ||
Khmer ពូជសាសន៍ | ||
Kinyarwanda amoko | ||
Konkani वंशीक | ||
Korean 인종 | ||
Krio racial | ||
Kurdish nijadî | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) ڕەگەزی | ||
Kyrgyz расалык | ||
Lao ເຊື້ອຊາດ | ||
Latin gentis | ||
Latvian rases | ||
Lingala mposo ya bato | ||
Lithuanian rasinis | ||
Luganda eby’amawanga | ||
Luxembourgish rassistesch | ||
Macedonian расна | ||
Maithili जातिगत | ||
Malagasy ara-poko | ||
Malay perkauman | ||
Malayalam വംശീയ | ||
Maltese razzjali | ||
Maori iwi | ||
Marathi वांशिक | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯔꯦꯁꯤꯑꯦꯜ ꯑꯣꯏꯕꯥ꯫ | ||
Mizo hnam hrang hrang | ||
Mongolian арьсны өнгө | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) လူမျိုးရေး | ||
Nepali जातीय | ||
Norwegian rasemessig | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) mtundu | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଜାତିଗତ | ||
Oromo sanyummaa | ||
Pashto نژادي | ||
Persian نژادی | ||
Polish rasowy | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) racial | ||
Punjabi ਨਸਲੀ | ||
Quechua racial nisqa | ||
Romanian rasial | ||
Russian расовый | ||
Samoan lanu | ||
Sanskrit जातिगत | ||
Scots Gaelic cinnidh | ||
Sepedi morafe | ||
Serbian расне | ||
Sesotho morabe | ||
Shona dzinza | ||
Sindhi نسل پرست | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) වාර්ගික | ||
Slovak rasový | ||
Slovenian rasno | ||
Somali midab | ||
Spanish racial | ||
Sundanese ras | ||
Swahili rangi | ||
Swedish ras- | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) lahi | ||
Tajik нажодӣ | ||
Tamil இன | ||
Tatar раса | ||
Telugu జాతి | ||
Thai เชื้อชาติ | ||
Tigrinya ዓሌታዊ | ||
Tsonga rixaka | ||
Turkish ırksal | ||
Turkmen jyns taýdan | ||
Twi (Akan) mmusuakuw mu nyiyim | ||
Ukrainian расова | ||
Urdu نسلی | ||
Uyghur ئىرق | ||
Uzbek irqiy | ||
Vietnamese chủng tộc | ||
Welsh hiliol | ||
Xhosa ubuhlanga | ||
Yiddish ראַסיש | ||
Yoruba eya | ||
Zulu ngokobuhlanga |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "rasse" shares a common etymological root with "race" and "racism" in English. |
| Albanian | The word "racor" in Albanian is derived from the Latin word "racialis", meaning "of or relating to race". |
| Amharic | The Amharic word "የዘር" (racial) is derived from the word "ዘር" (seed) and can also refer to descent or lineage. |
| Arabic | "عرقي" as an adjective also means "alcoholic" in Arabic, especially in the context of spirits (e.g. "مشروب عرقي" = "alcoholic beverage"). |
| Armenian | The word "ցեղային" in Armenian can also refer to a "tribe" or a "nation", emphasizing the collective and communal aspects of a group. |
| Azerbaijani | The word "irqi" is a neologism used in Turkish and Azerbaijani as a way of avoiding the derogatory terms "nəsil" and "millət". |
| Basque | 'Arraza' or 'arraza' means 'race' or 'breed' in both Basque and Spanish but also means 'lineage' or 'descent' in Basque. |
| Belarusian | In Belarusian, расавы also denotes an obsolete Belarusian measure of length used in textile industry, equal to 2.134 meters or to 7 feet. |
| Bengali | The original meaning of the word "জাতিগত" is related to "birth" instead of "race" (its second meaning), which may have contributed to its ambiguous use among certain circles. |
| Bosnian | The word 'rasno' can also mean 'nationally' or 'of the people'. |
| Bulgarian | The word "расова" in Bulgarian can also mean "breed" or "strain" in the context of animals or plants. |
| Catalan | La palabra «racial» en catalán proviene del latín «racialis» y significa «relativo a la raza». |
| Cebuano | In Cebuano, "rasa" has additional meanings such as "species", "kind", and "clan". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 种族的本义是同类、类属，引申为种族、民族，现代汉语中多指人种或民族。 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 種族 (Zhǒngzú) was used to refer to a group of people with similar cultural or linguistic backgrounds in pre-modern China, but took on connotations of race in the 20th century. |
| Corsican | Corsican "razziale" may derive from the Greek "razzia" (raid, plunder), while "razzista" (racist) is derived from the French word for race. |
| Croatian | The Croatian word 'rasne' (racial) derives from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₁reǵ-, meaning to stretch or extend. |
| Czech | In Czech, "rasový" also means "thoroughbred" or "pedigree" in the context of animals. |
| Danish | In Danish, the word "race" has the same meaning as in English but it also means "breed" as in "dog race" or "horse race". |
| Dutch | In Dutch, "ras" can also mean "breed" or "type". |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word "rasa" also means "ethnic" or "national" and derives from the Sanskrit word "raça". |
| Estonian | The Estonian word "rassiline" can also mean "national" or "ethnic". |
| Finnish | In linguistics, “rodullinen” derives from the Swedish word "ras", which simply means a grouping of individuals based on traits they share. |
| French | French also has an adjective "race" which only means "species", not "human race". |
| Frisian | In Frisian, “rasiale” originally meant 'connected with race, line' |
| German | The term "rassistisch" in German can also refer to prejudice or discrimination based on ethnic or cultural origin, not just race. |
| Greek | Φυλετικός shares the root φυλ- with φυλή (tribe), and can refer to tribe, species or origin. |
| Gujarati | વંશીય also means "of or relating to a dynasty" or "of high or noble descent" in Gujarati. |
| Haitian Creole | The Haitian Creole word "rasyal" is ultimately derived from the French word "racial," and it can also mean "ethnic." |
| Hausa | The word "launin fata" in Hausa can also refer to skin color or ethnicity. |
| Hawaiian | In Hawaiian, the word "lāhui" originally referred to the extended family, then to a tribe or ethnic group, and now also means "nation". |
| Hebrew | גזעי derives from the Hebrew word for stump or trunk (גזע) and refers to the supposed common ancestry of a particular ethnic group. |
| Hindi | The Hindi word "जातीय" can also refer to "relating to caste" or "national". |
| Hmong | In the Hmong script, "haiv neeg" can also mean "ethnic group". |
| Hungarian | The Hungarian word "faji" means "racial" and "kind". |
| Icelandic | The word "kynþáttum" in Icelandic also means "of the same origin" or "related by blood". |
| Igbo | In Igbo, the word "agbụrụ" can also mean "lineage" or "clan" |
| Indonesian | The Indonesian word "rasial" specifically refers to something or someone of mixed race, as opposed to the general meaning of "racial" in English. |
| Irish | Ciníoch can also refer to "related" or "of the same stock". |
| Italian | In Italian, "razziale" also refers to a military raid, from its historical association with "razzia" |
| Japanese | In Japanese, "人種" also refers to a group of people who share common customs and cultures. |
| Javanese | In Javanese, "ras" is synonymous with "warna" (colour), both relating to "rupa" (form). |
| Kannada | The word "ಜನಾಂಗೀಯ" can be applied to ethnicity or language groups and is sometimes used interchangeably with "cultural" |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word "нәсілдік" can also refer to "breed" or "pedigree" in the context of animals. |
| Khmer | The word "ពូជសាសន៍" can also refer to "species" in a biological context, or "kind" or "type" in a more general sense. |
| Korean | The word "인종" (racial) in Korean originally meant "kind" or "race" in the context of biological classification. |
| Kurdish | In Kurdish, the term 'nijadî' primarily signifies 'ancestry', 'kin', and 'descendants' |
| Lao | The Laotian word "ເຊື້ອຊາດ" is a loan from the Thai word "ชาติ", and can also refer to the concepts of ethnicity or nation, and can be understood with the context and usage in a given situation. |
| Latin | While the word "gentis" translates to "racial" in English, it also means "nation" or "people" as in "gentes mundi" or "the nations of the world". |
| Latvian | Other related terms include "rass", "rasism", "rasist", "rasu", "rasojums", "rasošana", "rasts", "razotne". |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian word "rasinis" also means "reasoning", and ultimately derives from an Indo-European root meaning "calculate". |
| Luxembourgish | The word 'rassistesch' in Luxembourgish can also refer to 'racist', but its primary meaning is 'racial'. |
| Macedonian | Despite the superficial resemblance to the English word "race," the Macedonian word "расна" has no ethnic connotation and refers exclusively to "race" as a biological classification. |
| Malagasy | The word "ara-poko" in Malagasy can also mean "different" or "other" |
| Malay | The word "perkauman" is derived from the Sanskrit word "karma" and originally meant "action" or "deed". |
| Malayalam | The Malayalam word "വംശീയ" can also mean "hereditary" or "genealogical". |
| Maltese | In Maltese, "razzjali" can also refer to lineage or family origin. |
| Maori | The Maori word "iwi" can also refer to a tribe or extended family group. |
| Marathi | In Sanskrit, 'वांशिक' means 'relating to a lineage' or 'genealogical' |
| Mongolian | The word 'арьсны өнгө' derives from 'арьс' 'appearance' and 'өнгө' 'color, nuance', and means 'outward appearance, looks, physical characteristics', which also includes 'race'. In some contexts, it can mean 'ethnicity' or 'nationality'. |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The term “လူမျိုးရေး” was often translated or understood as exclusively related with skin colour, despite the Burmese phrase containing the wider connotation of descent, origin, nationality, and people group. |
| Nepali | The word "जातीय" can also refer to "national" or "ethnic" in Nepali. |
| Norwegian | In addition to "racial," rasemessig can also be translated as "breed-specific." |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "mtundu" in Nyanja can also mean "type" or "kind". |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "نژادي" can also refer to "ethnic" or "communal". |
| Persian | The word "نژادی" ("racial") derives from the Arabic word "نژاد" ("race"), which comes from the Proto-Semitic word *nṣʾ* ("generation") and is cognate with the Hebrew word "נֵס" ("banner") and the Akkadian word "nisḫu" ("people"). |
| Polish | In Polish, "rasowy" also means "thoroughbred" or "pedigree". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, "racial" can refer to both "pertaining to race" and "containing racism". |
| Punjabi | The word "ਨਸਲੀ" in Punjabi can also mean "genealogical" or "ancestral" |
| Romanian | Romanian "rasial" comes from the French "racial" and its alternate meaning "risky" comes from the Romanian "risc" meaning "risk." |
| Russian | “Расовый” is also used to describe the characteristics of a racehorse or a specific breed of dog, or sometimes figuratively in the sense of “purebred”. |
| Samoan | While it may be most often recognized in contemporary usage as shorthand for 'racial' or 'ethnic', a closer look at the term's etymology, history, and usage in practice may prove the term to be a more complex linguistic phenomenon. |
| Scots Gaelic | The Scots Gaelic word 'cinnidh' (racial) is cognate with the Welsh word 'cenedl' (nation). |
| Serbian | The Serbian word "расне" also means "different" or "diverse". |
| Sesotho | "Morabe" derives from "mora", meaning "person or human being" and the "-abe" suffix, which denotes belonging or resemblance, making "morabe" literally mean "like a human being". |
| Shona | In some dialects, the term "dzinza" can refer to a specific indigenous or native group. |
| Sindhi | The word "نسل پرست" (racial) in Sindhi derives from the Arabic word "نَسَل" (lineage, descent), suggesting an emphasis on family and ancestry. |
| Slovak | In Slovak, "rasový" can also refer to a draft beer or a beer mug. |
| Slovenian | The word "rasno" in Slovenian can also mean "ethnic" or "national". |
| Somali | The word 'midab' (racial) in Somali is also used to mean 'color', 'paint', or 'dye'. |
| Spanish | The term "racial" in Spanish can also refer to a type of fish known as the "horse mackerel". |
| Sundanese | In Sundanese, "ras" not only means "racial", but also refers to a type of traditional Sundanese song and dance. |
| Swahili | The Swahili word "rangi" can also refer to "colour", as in the expression "rangi ya ngozi" ("skin colour"). |
| Swedish | The Swedish word "ras" (racial) derives from the Latin word "ratio" (reason), not from the French word "race" (nation). |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The term "lahi" can also refer to "tribe" or "lineage" in Tagalog. |
| Tajik | The Tajik word "нажодӣ" (racial) is derived from the Persian word "نژاد" (race), which in turn comes from the Arabic word "نَسَب" (lineage). |
| Tamil | The Tamil word "இன" (ina) can refer to both "race" and "species". |
| Telugu | The word "జాతి" in Telugu is related to the Sanskrit word "जाति" meaning "species, kind, or caste" |
| Thai | เชื้อชาติ can also mean 'race' as in 'horse race' and 'sperm'. |
| Turkish | The Turkish word "ırksal" also carries connotations of "ethical" or "moral", stemming from its root word "irk" meaning "character" or "nature". |
| Ukrainian | The word "расова" in Ukrainian also has the meaning of "breed" or "strain", particularly in reference to animals. |
| Urdu | نسلی can also mean descent, pedigree, lineage, breed, genus, type, kind, generation, race, breed, progeny, strain or ancestry in Urdu. |
| Uzbek | In Uzbek, the word "irqiy" can also mean "pertaining to the breed" when used in the context of animals. |
| Vietnamese | Chủng tộc comes from Sino-Vietnamese 種 (chủng, 'species, race, breed') + 族 (tộc, 'race, ethnic group'). |
| Welsh | The word "hiliol" is also used in Welsh to mean "lineage" or "descent." |
| Xhosa | The word "ubuhlanga" is also used to refer to the physical features that distinguish one race from another. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word ראַסיש ('racial') is also used in the specific context of 'ethnic' or 'national,' as in ראַסן־פֿאַרפֿאָלגונג ('ethnic persecution') |
| Yoruba | The word 'eya' ('racial') in Yoruba has an alternate meaning referring to a species of West African antelope. |
| Zulu | The Zulu word “ngokobuhlanga” can be literally translated as “the way of people” and implies a sense of belonging to a particular tribe or ethnic group. |
| English | In the early 1900s, "racial" frequently described nationality or ethnic origin rather than strictly race, meaning one's inherent biological traits. |