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• Blak

Coined by visual artist Destiny Deacon in 1991 as an alteration of black.

blak (comparative blakker, superlative blakkest)

1. (Australia) Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander).
   blak identity
   • 2021 November 7, Claire [G.] Coleman, “Not quite blak enough: ‘The people who think I am too white to be Aboriginal are all white’”, in The Guardian‎[1], archived from the original on 3 December 2021:
     Every now and then a troll calls me white. It’s a violent colonial tactic: call me white if I identify as blak, call me blak if I wanted to identify as white. […] I am not quite white, not quite blak enough. I wish I was blakker on the outside; as blak on the outside as I feel on the inside.

• blakness

blak (plural blaks)

1. (Australia, often offensive) An Indigenous Australian.
   Coordinate term: wadjela (a White person, Australian of European descent)
   • 2021 November 7, Claire [G.] Coleman, “Not quite blak enough: ‘The people who think I am too white to be Aboriginal are all white’”, in The Guardian‎[2], archived from the original on 3 December 2021:
     The right-wing media, and even some of the more centrist media, draws an artificial line between the bush and the city, the urban blaks and the people from the bush. The division is often coded to skin colour, urban is shorthand for ‘not black enough’ and bush is shorthand for ‘real Aboriginal’.

• Balk, balk

Antigua and Barbuda Creole English

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blak (plural **blak dem, quantified **blak)

1. black

From English black.

blak

1. black

• IPA(key): /plɛaːk/
  Rhymes: -ɛaːk

verbal noun of blaka

blak n (genitive singular blaks, plural bløk)

1. a thrown object
2. a throw

• kast
• kavablak
• blaka

From Middle Irish bláthach,[1] perhaps through Middle Scots *bladoch, bledoch. Compare Scottish Gaelic blàthach.

blak n (genitive singular blaks, uncountable)

1. buttermilk

• blaðak

1. ^ Schulze-Thulin, Britta (January 2001), “Notes on the Old and Middle Irish Loanwords in Old Norse”, in North-Western European Language Evolution (NOWELE), volume 39, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 55.

• Rhymes: -aːk

blak

1. singular imperative of blaken
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of blaken

• Kalb

From Old Norse blak.

• IPA(key): /plaːk/
  Rhymes: -aːk

blak n (genitive singular blaks, nominative plural blök)

1. flapping, waving (e.g. in the wind)
2. light blow
   Synonyms: skellur, högg
3. (sports) volleyball
4. the tail of a halibut

• strandblak

• bera blak af einhverjum (“to protect someone, to make excuses for someone”)

• blake, blakke, black, blac

From Old English blæc, from Proto-West Germanic *blak, from Proto-Germanic *blakaz.

• IPA(key): /blak/, /blaːk/

blak (plural and weak singular blake, comparative blakker, superlative blakkest)

1. black (of a black color)
2. black (having black skin)
3. black-haired
4. dark, blackish

• blakberie
• English: black (see there for further descendants)
• Scots: black
• Yola: bhlock, blaak
• → Danish: blæk
  • → Faroese: blekk
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: blekk
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: blekk
  • → Greenlandic: pilikki
• “blā̆k, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

blak

1. alternative form of blake (“pale, yellowish”)

Colors in Middle English · coloures, hewes (layout · text)

From English black.

blak

1. black
   Synonym: blakpela

• blakpela

• blakbot

• Volker, C. A. (general editor), et al. (2008), Papua New Guinea Tok Pisin English Dictionary, Oxford University Press in association with Wantok Niuspepa, →ISBN, page 11