Jump to content

تكروني

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Hijazi Arabic

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

A relative adjective (nisba) derived from Takrur with some corruption + ي (-i).[1][2]

Pronunciation

[edit]

Adjective

[edit]

تكروني • (takrūni) (feminine تكرونية (takrūniyya), common plural تكارنة (takārna))

  1. (dated, offensive) having the characteristics of a تكروني
  2. (ethnic slur, by extension) extremely black

Noun

[edit]

تكروني • (takrūni) m (plural تكارنة (takārna), feminine تكرونية (takrūniyya))

  2. (dated, offensive) a person of a West African ancestry
  3. (ethnic slur, by extension) an extremely black person

References

[edit]
  1. ^ 'Umar Al-Naqar (1969) “Takrur the History of a Name”, in The Journal of African History‎[1], volume 10, number 3, →ISSN, pages 365-374
  2. ^ Wolbert Smidt (2010) “Tukrir”, in Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, volume 4, pages 998-1000
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=تكروني&oldid=82349421"