Black

"Black" in Turkish

kara

(absorbing all light)

kara

(bad; evil)

karanlık

(without light)

katran

(of coffee or tea, without milk or other whitener)

siyah

(absorbing all light)

siyahi

(relating to people with dark skin — see also dark-skinned link= A user suggests that this Translingual entry be cleaned up, giving the reason: “e.g. Dutch: neger (nl) m, negerin (nl) f and German: Schwarzer (de) m, Schwarze (de) f aren't translations of the adjective, but of the noun for which see below.” Please see the discussion on Requests for cleanup(+) for more information and remove this template after the problem has been dealt with.)

kara

(colour/color)

siyah

(colour/color)

siyah

(dark-skinned person — see also Negro)

zenci

(dark-skinned person — see also Negro)

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.