racial

English

Etymology

From race +‎ -ial.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹeɪʃəl/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃəl

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Adjective

racial (comparative more racial, superlative most racial)

1. Of or relating to a race (or a people).

   the racial complexion

   racial stereotypes

   racial remarks

   racial profiling

   racial discrimination

   • 1712, The Art Melodious - Observations of a Musician, page 36:

     From a musical point of view, the modern Iberian seems a fac-simile of the mediæval Frenchman. Barring out racial distinctions, they both live in an analogous environment.

   • 1854, W. Stevens, Printer (publishers), The Leisure Hour - An Illustrated Magazine for Home Reading · Volume 3, page 678:

     Such extremes have always been characteristic of the barbarous northmen, and we may not be wrong in referring to racial causes for the solution of this problem of contrarieties otherwise inexplicable.

Derived terms

• alethoracial
• aletho-racial
• anti-racial
• antiracial
• anti-racialism
• antiracialism
• biracial
• cisracial
• cis-racial
• cisracialism
• cis-racialism
• inter-racial
• interracial
• multi-racial
• multiracial
• non-racial
• nonracial
• post-racial
• postracial
• postracialised
• post-racialised
• post-racialism
• postracialism
• post-raciality
• postraciality
• post-racialized
• postracialized
• pre-racial
• preracial
• preracialised
• pre-racialised
• preracialism
• pre-racialism
• pre-raciality
• preraciality
• pre-racialized
• preracialized
• pro-racial
• proracial
• proracialism
• pro-racialism
• proto-racial
• pseudo-racial
• pseudoracial
• racial discrimination
• racial grievance industry
• racial hygiene
• racial hygiene
• racial integration
• racialisation
• racialise
• racialised
• racialising
• racialism
• racialist
• racialistic
• racialistical
• racialistically
• raciality
• racialization
• racialize
• racialized
• racializing
• racially
• racial memory
• racialness
• racial profile
• racial profiler
• racial profiling
• racial purity
• racial science
• racial segregation
• racial spoils
• trans-racial
• transracial
• transracialism
• trans-racialism
• trans-racialist
• transracialist
• transraciality
• trans-raciality

 

Related terms

• antiracism
• anti-racism
• anti-racist
• antiracist
• cis-racism
• cisracism
• postracism
• post-racism
• preracism
• pre-racism
• proracism
• pro-racism
• proracist
• pro-racist
• race
• racism
• racist
• racistic
• transracism
• trans-racism

 

Translations

of or relating to a race (or a people)

• Arabic: عِرْقِيّ (ʕirqiyy), عُنْصُرِيّ (ʕunṣuriyy)
• Azerbaijani: irqi
• Belarusian: ра́савы (rásavy)
• Bulgarian: ра́сов (bg) (rásov)
• Catalan: racial (ca)
• Czech: rasový (cs)
• Danish: racemæssig
• Esperanto: rasa (eo)
• French: racial (fr)
• Galician: racial (gl)
• German: rassisch (de), Rassen- (de)
• Greek: φυλετικός (el) (fyletikós)

  Ancient: γενικός (genikós)

• Hungarian: faji (hu)
• Italian: razziale (it)
• Kazakh: нәсілдік (näsıldık)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ڕەگەزی (regezî)

• Persian: نژادی (fa) (nežâdi)
• Polish: rasowy (pl)
• Portuguese: racial (pt)
• Romanian: rasial (ro)
• Russian: ра́совый (ru) (rásovyj)
• Slovak: rasový
• Spanish: racial (es)
• Swedish: rasmässig (sv), ras- (sv)
• Turkish: ırki (tr)
• Ukrainian: ра́совий (rásovyj)
• Uyghur: ئىرقىي (irqiy)
• Uzbek: irqiy (uz)

Noun

racial (plural racials)

1. (gaming) A skill possessed by all characters of a certain race.

Further reading

• "racial" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 248.

Anagrams

• Alaric, Arcila, Claira

Catalan

Etymology

From raça +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [rə.siˈal]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ra.siˈal]

Adjective

racial m or f (masculine and feminine plural racials)

1. racial

Related terms

• raça

Further reading

• “racial” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Etymology

From race +‎ -ial.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁa.sjal/

Adjective

racial (feminine raciale, masculine plural raciaux, feminine plural raciales)

1. racial

Related terms

• race
• racialement
• racialiser

Further reading

• “racial”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• raclai

Galician

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /raˈθjal/ [raˈθjɑɫ]

• IPA^(key): (standard) /raˈθjal/ [raˈθjɑɫ]
• IPA^(key): (seseo) /raˈsjal/ [raˈsjɑɫ]

• Rhymes: -al
• Hyphenation: ra‧cial

Adjective

racial m or f (plural raciais)

1. racial

Further reading

• “racial”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

Portuguese

Etymology

From raça +‎ -ial.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁa.siˈaw/ [ha.sɪˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /ʁaˈsjaw/ [haˈsjaʊ̯]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁa.siˈaw/ [ha.sɪˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /ʁaˈsjaw/ [haˈsjaʊ̯]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ʁa.siˈaw/ [χa.sɪˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /ʁaˈsjaw/ [χaˈsjaʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁɐˈsjal/ [ʁɐˈsjaɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁɐˈsjal/ [ʁɐˈsjaɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁɐˈsja.li/

Adjective

racial m or f (plural raciais)

1. (relational) race (of people); racial
2. (biology, relational) race or subspecies (of a population); racial
3. (relational) breed (of animal); racial

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English racial; compare raza (“race”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /raˈθjal/ [raˈθjal]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /raˈsjal/ [raˈsjal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: ra‧cial

Adjective

racial m or f (masculine and feminine plural raciales)

1. racial

Derived terms

• racialmente

 

Related terms

• raza

 

Further reading

• “racial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10