ꦧꦏꦿꦃ
Javanese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Sranan Tongo bakra,[1] from Efik mbakara[2] or Ibibio mbakara.
Noun
[edit]ꦧꦏꦿꦃ
- (Surinamese) a white person, someone with a light skin colour.
References
[edit]- ^ Lila Gobardhan-Rambocus, Johan Sarmo (1993) “Het Surinaams Javaans [Surinamese Javanese]”, in Lila Gobardhan-Rambocus, Maurits S. Hassankhan, editors, Immigratie en ontwikkeling. Emancipatieproces van contractanten [Immigration and development. The emancipation process of contract migrants][1] (in Dutch), Paramaribo: Anton de Kom Universiteit, page 187
- ^ Norval Smith (2015) “Ingredient X: The shared African lexical element in the English-lexifier Atlantic Creoles, and the theory of rapid creolization”, in P. Muysken, N. Smith, editors, Surviving the Middle Passage: The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, →ISBN, page 70