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

• blakness

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

• (light blow): skellur, högg

• 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