Arroz negro tastes inky because it's made with squid ink.
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Negro
//ˈniɡɹoʊ//
Synonyms for "negro" (58 found)
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Closest matches (12)
Strong matches (17)
Related words (29)
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3 entriesSynonyms
6 entriesRelated terms
7 entriesderived
56 entriesShowing 16 of 56 words.
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1 entriesis a
3 entriesrelated to
12 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
160 translations across 76 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- neger noun (black person)
Albanian
2 entries- arap noun (black person)
- zezak noun (black person)
Arabic
4 entries- أَسْوَد noun (black person)
- زَنْجِيّ noun (black person)
- زِنْجِيّ noun (black person)
- سَوْدَاء noun (black person)
Armenian
2 entries- նեգր noun (black person)
- սեւական noun (black person)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- neqr noun (black person)
- zənci noun (black person)
Belarusian
4 entries- му́рын noun (black person)
- му́рынка noun (black person)
- негр noun (black person)
- негрыця́нка noun (black person)
Bengali
1 entries- নিগ্রো noun (black person)
Bulgarian
4 entries- негър adj (offensive: relating to the black ethnicity)
- чернокож adj (black or dark brown in color)
- не́гър noun (black person)
- не́гърка noun (black person)
Burmese
1 entries- ကပ္ပလီ noun (black person)
Chinese
1 entries- 烏人 /乌人 noun (black person)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 黑人 noun (black person)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 黑人 noun (black person)
Chiricahua
4 entries- (Mescalero) t’eeshínde noun (black person)
- (Mescalero) łizhínde noun (black person)
- indaa diłhilénde noun (black person)
- indaadiłhiłú noun (black person)
Church Slavic
1 entries- муринъ noun (black person)
Coptic
1 entries- ⲙⲁⲩⲣⲏⲥ noun (black person)
Czech
2 entries- černoch noun (black person)
- černoška noun (black person)
Danish
1 entries- neger noun (black person)
Dutch
2 entries- neger noun (black person)
- negerin noun (black person)
Esperanto
2 entries- negro noun (black person)
- nigrulo noun (black person)
Estonian
1 entries- neeger noun (black person)
Faroese
1 entries- nekari noun (black person)
Finnish
2 entries- neekeri adj (offensive: relating to the black ethnicity)
- neekeri noun (black person)
French
2 entries- nègre adj (offensive: relating to the black ethnicity)
- nègre noun (black person)
Galician
1 entries- negro noun (black person)
Georgian
2 entries- ზანგი noun (black person)
- ნეგრი noun (black person)
German
4 entries- schwarz adj (offensive: relating to the black ethnicity)
- schwarz adj (black or dark brown in color)
- Maximalpigmentierter noun (black person)
- Mohr noun (black person)
Greek
2 entries- νέγρα noun (black person)
- νέγρος noun (black person)
Hebrew
1 entries- כּוּשִׁי noun (black person)
Hindi
4 entries- नीग्रो noun (black person)
- हबशिन noun (black person)
- हबशी noun (black person)
- हबसी noun (black person)
Hungarian
2 entries- fekete noun (black person)
- néger noun (black person)
Icelandic
4 entries- blámaður noun (black person)
- blökkumaður noun (black person)
- negri noun (black person)
- svertingi noun (black person)
Indonesian
1 entries- negro noun (black person)
Italian
4 entries- nero adj (black or dark brown in color)
- negro noun (black person)
- nera noun (black person)
- nero noun (black person)
Japanese
4 entries- 黒人 adj (offensive: relating to the black ethnicity)
- 黒子 adj (offensive: relating to the black ethnicity)
- 黒人 noun (black person)
- 黒子 noun (black person)
Kazakh
3 entries- дәңгі noun (black person)
- зәңгі noun (black person)
- негр noun (black person)
Khmer
1 entries- ជនជាតិនីក្រូ noun (black person)
Korean
1 entries- 흑인 noun (black person)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- негр noun (black person)
Lao
1 entries- ແຂກດຳ noun (black person)
Latvian
1 entries- nēģeris noun (black person)
Lithuanian
1 entries- negras noun (black person)
Macedonian
2 entries- црнец noun (black person)
- црнка noun (black person)
Malay
1 entries- negro noun (black person)
Mongolian
1 entries- негр noun (black person)
Māori
3 entries- kirimangu adj (black or dark brown in color)
- kirimangu noun (black person)
- mangumangu noun (black person)
Navajo
2 entries- Naakaii Łizhinii noun (black person)
- Zhinii noun (black person)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- neger noun (black person)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- neger noun (black person)
Old Armenian
1 entries- խափշիկ noun (black person)
Pashto
4 entries- تور پوستى noun (black person)
- تورپوستکی noun (black person)
- حبشى noun (black person)
- زنګي noun (black person)
Persian
2 entries- کاکاسیاه adj (offensive: relating to the black ethnicity)
- زنگی noun (black person)
Polish
4 entries- czarny adj (offensive: relating to the black ethnicity)
- czarny adj (black or dark brown in color)
- murzyn noun (black person)
- murzynka noun (black person)
Portuguese
3 entries- negro adj (black or dark brown in color)
- negra noun (black person)
- negro noun (black person)
Romanian
2 entries- negresă noun (black person)
- negru noun (black person)
Russian
4 entries- ара́п noun (black person)
- ара́пка noun (black person)
- негр noun (black person)
- негритя́нка noun (black person)
Rwanda-Rundi
1 entries- umwirabura noun (black person)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- duine dubh noun (black person)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- crnac noun (black person)
- crnkinja noun (black person)
- црнац noun (black person)
- црнкиња noun (black person)
Sicilian
2 entries- nìgura noun (black person)
- nìguru noun (black person)
Sinhalese
1 entries- නීග්රෝ noun (black person)
Slovak
2 entries- černoch noun (black person)
- černoška noun (black person)
Slovene
1 entries- črnec noun (black person)
Spanish
3 entries- negrata adj (offensive: relating to the black ethnicity)
- negra noun (black person)
- negro noun (black person)
Swedish
2 entries- neger noun (black person)
- negress noun (black person)
Tajik
1 entries- зангӣ noun (black person)
Telugu
1 entries- నీగ్రో noun (black person)
Thai
4 entries- คนดำ noun (black person)
- คนผิวดำ noun (black person)
- นิโกร noun (black person)
- แขกดำ noun (black person)
Turkish
1 entries- zenci noun (black person)
Turkmen
1 entries- negr noun (black person)
Ukrainian
4 entries- му́рин noun (black person)
- му́ринка noun (black person)
- негр noun (black person)
- негритя́нка noun (black person)
Urdu
1 entries- نیگرو noun (black person)
Uyghur
1 entries- نېگر noun (black person)
Uzbek
4 entries- barzangi noun (black person)
- habash noun (black person)
- negr noun (black person)
- zanji noun (black person)
Vietnamese
1 entries- người da đen noun (black person)
Western Apache
4 entries- Indaa diłhiłé noun (black person)
- Innaa diłhiłé noun (black person)
- Ndaa diłhiłé noun (black person)
- Nnaa diłhiłé noun (black person)
Yiddish
2 entries- נעגער noun (black person)
- נעגערטע noun (black person)
Sample sentences
18 total sentences available.
The squid ink in arroz negro blackens the rest of the ingredients enough to make the Spanish dish a Goth staple.
Source: tatoeba (758029)
The Thirteenth Amendment freed all Negro slaves.
Source: tatoeba (807637)
"Negro" is an offensive word.
Source: tatoeba (2897140)
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