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From ethnic + -ity .
ethnicity (countable and uncountable , plural ethnicities )
The common characteristics of a group of people, especially regarding ancestry , culture , language or national experiences.
2012 March-April, Jan Sapp , “Race Finished”, in American Scientist [1] , volume 100 , number 2, page 164 :Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity , genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?
An ethnic group .
( casual, euphemistic ) Race ; common ancestry.
In common use, ethnicity is used as a euphemism for the sensitive term race , but with identical meaning: group ancestry and physical characteristics, such as skin color, as in “ethnic Chinese”. In careful use, it refers to any common characteristic or identity, particularly linguistic, national, regional, or religious groups, and can cut across race, such as Hispanic /Latino ; or be a subgroup of a racial group, as in German Texan , Chinese Indonesians , Nuyorican (New York Puerto Rican), etc.
characteristics of an ethnic group
Arabic: إِثْنِيَّة f ( ʔiṯniyya )
Armenian: էթնիկ պատկանելություն ( ētʻnik patkanelutʻyun ) , ազգություն (hy) ( azgutʻyun )
Azerbaijani: etnik qrup
Bashkir: милләт ( millət )
Belarusian: этні́чная прынале́жнасць f ( etníčnaja prynaljéžnascʹ ) , нацыяна́льнасць (be) f ( nacyjanálʹnascʹ ) , наро́днасць (be) f ( naródnascʹ ) , этні́чнасць f ( etníčnascʹ )
Burmese: လူမျိုး (my) ( lu-myui: )
Catalan: ètnia (ca) f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 種族 / 种族 ( zung2 zuk6 ) , 民族 (yue) ( man4 zuk6 )
Mandarin: 種族 / 种族 (zh) ( zhǒngzú ) , 民族 (zh) ( mínzú )
Czech: etnicita f
Danish: etnicitet c
Esperanto: etneco
Estonian: rahvuskuuluvus
Finnish: kansallispiirre
French: ethnicité (fr) f , appartenance ethnique f
Georgian: ეროვნება ( erovneba ) , ეთნიკური კუთვნილება ( etniḳuri ḳutvnileba )
German: Ethnizität (de) f , Volkszugehörigkeit f , ethnische Zugehörigkeit f
Hebrew: לאום / לְאֹם (he) m ( l'om ) , לאומיות / לְאֻמִּיּוּת (he) f ( l'umiyút )
Hindi: क़ौमियत f ( qaumiyat ) , कौमियत (hi) f ( kaumiyat ) , ज़ात (hi) f ( zāt )
Hungarian: etnikum (hu) , etnicitás , származás (hu) , etnikai hovatartozás
Indonesian: kesukuan (id)
Irish: eitneachas m
Italian: etnicità f , etnia (it) f
Japanese: 民族性 ( みんぞくせい, minzokusei ) , 民族 (ja) ( みんぞく, minzoku ) , エスニシティ (ja) ( esunishiti )
Khmer: ជាតិ ពន្ធភាព ( ciət pŭən phiəp )
Korean: 민족성(民族性) (ko) ( minjokseong )
Lao: ຊົນຊາດ (lo) ( son sāt )
Latvian: tautība f
Lithuanian: tautybė f
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Norman: ethnicité f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: etnisitet (no) m
Nynorsk: etnisitet m
Persian:
Dari: قَوْمِیَّت ( qawmiyyat )
Iranian Persian: قُوْمِیَّت ( ğowmiyyat )
Polish: narodowość (pl) f , etniczność f
Portuguese: etnia (pt) f
Romanian: etnicitate (ro) f
Russian: этни́ческая принадле́жность f ( etníčeskaja prinadléžnostʹ ) , национа́льность (ru) f ( nacionálʹnostʹ ) , наро́дность (ru) f ( naródnostʹ ) , этни́чность (ru) f ( etníčnostʹ )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ѐтнија f
Roman: ètnija (sh) f
Slovak: etnicita f
Spanish: etnicidad (es) f
Swedish: etnicitet (sv) c
Thai: ชาติพันธุ์ (th) ( châat-dtì-pan )
Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: etnik köken
Ukrainian: етні́чна принале́жність f ( etníčna prynaléžnistʹ ) , етні́чність f ( etníčnistʹ ) , націона́льність (uk) f ( nacionálʹnistʹ ) , наро́дність f ( naródnistʹ )
Urdu: قَومِیَت f ( qaumiyat )
Vietnamese: sắc tộc (vi)
ethnic group
Arabic: مَجْمُوعَة إِثْنِيَّة f ( majmūʕa ʔiṯniyya )
Armenian: ազգություն (hy) ( azgutʻyun )
Bashkir: милләт ( millət )
Belarusian: этні́чная гру́па f ( etníčnaja hrúpa ) , нацыяна́льнасць (be) f ( nacyjanálʹnascʹ ) , наро́днасць (be) f ( naródnascʹ ) , э́тнас m ( étnas )
Chinese:
Cantonese: 民族 (yue) ( man4 zuk6 )
Mandarin: 民族 (zh) ( mínzú )
Danish: etnisk tilhørsforhold n
Esperanto: etno
Finnish: etnisyys (fi) , kansallisuus (fi)
French: ethnie (fr) f , groupe ethnique m
Georgian: ეთნიკური ჯგუფი ( etniḳuri ǯgupi )
German: ethnische Gruppe f
Hindi: क़ौम m ( qaum ) , कौम (hi) m ( kaum ) , ज़ात (hi) f ( zāt )
Hungarian: etnikum (hu) , etnikai csoport
Indonesian: etnis (id) , suku bangsa (id)
Irish: eitneacht f
Japanese: 民族 (ja) ( みんぞく, minzoku )
Kazakh: ұлт (kk) ( ūlt )
Khmer: ក្រុម ជនជាតិ ( krom cɔɔn ciət )
Korean: 민족(民族) (ko) ( minjok )
Lao: ເຊື້ອຊາດ ( sư̄a sāt ) , ຊົນຊາດ (lo) ( son sāt )
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Nuosu: ꊿꋅ ( co cux )
Occitan: etnia (oc) f
Persian:
Dari: قَوْم ( qawm )
Iranian Persian: قُوْم ( ğowm )
Portuguese: etnia (pt)
Romanian: grup etnic n , etnie (ro) f
Russian: этни́ческая гру́ппа f ( etníčeskaja grúppa ) , национа́льность (ru) f ( nacionálʹnostʹ ) , э́тнос (ru) m ( étnos ) , наро́дность (ru) f ( naródnostʹ )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: етницѝте̄т m , ѐтнија f
Roman: etnicìtēt (sh) m , ètnija (sh) f
Spanish: etnia (es) f
Thai: เชื้อชาติ (th) ( chʉ́ʉa-châat ) , กลุ่มชาติพันธุ์ (th) ( glùm-châat-dtì-pan )
Tibetan: རྒྱལ་ཁོངས ( rgyal khongs )
Ukrainian: етні́чна гру́па f ( etníčna hrúpa ) , націона́льність (uk) f ( nacionálʹnistʹ ) , наро́дність f ( naródnistʹ ) , е́тнос m ( étnos )
Uyghur: مىللەتلەر ( milletler )
Vietnamese: sắc tộc (vi)