blak

• Blak

Coined by visual artist Destiny Deacon in 1991 as an alteration of black.

blak

1. (Australia) Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander).

   blak identity

   • 2021 November 7, Claire [G.] Coleman, “Not quite blak enough: ‘The people who think I am too white to be Aboriginal are all white’”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Every now and then a troll calls me white. It’s a violent colonial tactic: call me white if I identify as blak, call me blak if I wanted to identify as white. […] I am not quite white, not quite blak enough. I wish I was blakker on the outside; as blak on the outside as I feel on the inside.

• blakness

blak (plural blaks)

1. (Australia, often offensive) An Indigenous Australian.
   • 2021 November 7, Claire [G.] Coleman, “Not quite blak enough: ‘The people who think I am too white to be Aboriginal are all white’”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     The right-wing media, and even some of the more centrist media, draws an artificial line between the bush and the city, the urban blaks and the people from the bush. The division is often coded to skin colour, urban is shorthand for ‘not black enough’ and bush is shorthand for ‘real Aboriginal’.

• Balk, balk

From English black.

blak

1. black

• IPA^(key): /plɛaːk/

  Rhymes: -ɛaːk

verbal noun of blaka

blak n (genitive singular blaks, plural bløk)

1. a thrown object
2. a throw

• kast

• kavablak

• blaka

From Old Irish bláthach via Early Middle Scots [Term?]. Compare Scottish Gaelic blàthach.

blak n (genitive singular blaks, uncountable)

1. buttermilk

• blaðak

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• Rhymes: -aːk

blak

1. singular imperative of blaken
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of blaken

From Old Norse blak.

• IPA^(key): /plaːk/

  Rhymes: -aːk

blak n (genitive singular blaks, nominative plural blök)

1. flapping, waving (e.g. in the wind)
2. light blow

   Synonyms: skellur, högg

3. (sports) volleyball
4. the tail of a halibut

• blake, blakke, black, blac

From Old English blæc, from Proto-Germanic *blakaz.

• IPA^(key): /blak/, /blaːk/

blak (plural and weak singular blake, comparative blakker, superlative blakkest)

1. black (of a black color)
2. black (having black skin)
3. black-haired
4. dark, blackish

• English: black (see there for further descendants)
• Scots: black
• Yola: bhlock, blaak
• → Danish: blæk
  • → Faroese: blekk
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: blekk
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: blekk
  • → Greenlandic: pilikki

• “blā̆k, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

blak

1. alternative form of blake (“pale, yellowish”)

From English black.

blak

1. black