aborigine

aborigine

See also: Aborigine, aborígine, and ab origine

English

Etymology

Back-formation from aborigines.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌæb.əˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ɪ.ni/

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Noun

aborigine (countable and uncountable, plural aborigines)

1. A native inhabitant of a country; a member of the original people. [First attested in the early 19^th century.][1]
2. (in the plural) The native flora and fauna of an area. [First attested in the late 17^th century.][1]

Usage notes

• Usually capitalized in Australian contexts, Aborigine. Today considered offensive; more appropriate terms would be "Aboriginal person" or "indigenous Australian".
• Fowler's 3rd edition considers this singular to be "etymologically indefensible" notwithstanding its having become the established form in Australia since 1829. This is in reference to its inflection from 'Aborigines', not actually originally an S-addition pluralization (see Aborigine/Aborigines/Aboriginal entries in Oxford Dictionary).

Descendants

• Norwegian Bokmål: aborigin

Translations

aboriginal inhabitant of a country

Arabic: سَاكِن أَصْلِيّ‎ (sākin ʾaṣliyy) Bulgarian: абориге́н (bg) m (aborigén), тузе́мец (bg) m (tuzémec) Catalan: aborigen m or f Chinese: Mandarin: 原住民 (zh) (yuánzhùmín), 土著 (zh) (tǔzhù) Czech: domorodec (cs) m Danish: aboriginer (da) c Finnish: alkuasukas (fi) French: aborigène (fr) m or f, autochtone (fr) m or f Georgian: მკვიდრი (mḳvidri), ადგილობრივი (adgilobrivi), აბორიგენი (aborigeni) German: Aborigine (de) m, Urbewohner m Greek: ιθαγενής (el) (ithagenís) Hungarian: bennszülött (hu) Icelandic: frumbyggi (is) m Irish: bundúchasach m Italian: aborigeno (it) Japanese: アボリジニ (aborijini), 原住民 (ja) (げんじゅうみん, genjūmin) Korean: 원주민 (ko) (wonjumin), 토착민 (ko) (tochangmin) Manx: bun-cummaltagh m, bun-dooghyssagh m Mongolian: абориген (aborigen), уугуул хүн (uuguul xün) Norwegian: Bokmål: aborigin (no) m, aboriginer m Polish: aborygen (pl) m, autochton (pl) m, krajowiec (pl) m, tubylec (pl) m Portuguese: aborígene (pt) m or f, nativo (pt) m, indígena (pt) m or f Russian: абориге́н (ru) m (aborigén) (usually of Australian aborigines only), тузе́мец (ru) m (tuzémec), коренно́й жи́тель (ru) m (korennój žítelʹ), автохто́н (ru) m (avtoxtón) (rare, scientific) Spanish: aborigen (es) m or f, indígena (es) m or f Tok Pisin: kanaka Turkish: asıl yerli Ukrainian: абориге́н (uk) m (aboryhén) Welsh: brodor m, cynfrodor m

References

1. Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief; William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “aborigine”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 6.

Further reading

• “aborigine”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• baignoire

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Finnish

Etymology

From English aborigine.

Noun

aborigine

1. Aborigine (aboriginal Australian)

Declension

Declension of aborigine (irregular) singular plural nominative aborigine aboriginet genitive aboriginen aboriginien partitive aboriginea aborigineja accusative aborigine aboriginen aboriginet inessive aboriginessa aborigineissa elative aboriginesta aborigineista illative aborigineen aborigineihin adessive aboriginella aborigineilla ablative aboriginelta aborigineilta allative aboriginelle aborigineille essive aboriginena aborigineina translative aborigineksi aborigineiksi instructive – aboriginein abessive aboriginetta aborigineitta comitative – aborigineineen

See also

• alkuasukas

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Latin

Adjective

aborigine

1. vocative masculine singular of aboriginus