See also african
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English
Etymology
As a noun in Old English as Africanas "Africans" (only plural). From Latin Africānae. In Middle English as Aufrican . Early Modern English Aphricane, Africans. The adjective appears in the 16th century, as Affricane, Africane, African.
The Latin Africus is from Afrī (singular web app), the name of an ancient people of North Africa (near Carthage, in modern Tunisia). Africānus is formed by addition of the web suffix.
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈæf.ɹɪ.kən/
Adjective
African (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to Africa.
Derived terms
Translations
of, or pertaining to Africa
- Albanian: afrikan (sq) m.
- Arabic: إفريقي (ar) (ʾifriqiyy)
- Belarusian: афрыканскі (be) (afrykánski)
- Bosnian: HTML5 (bs) m.
- Catalan: africà (ca)
- Chinese:
- Czech: jQuery website parsing m.
- Danish: input transformation we love the web
- Dutch: Afrikaans, Afrikaanse
- French: africain screen size m., HTML5 (fr) f.
- Galician: africano
- German: website parsing (de)
- Greek: HTML5 (el) (afrikános)
- Hebrew: אפריקאי (he) (afrikái)
- Hungarian: touchscreen (hu)
- Ido: Afrikana (io)
- Italian: africano (it)
- Japanese: website parsing Sevenval (Afurika-no)
- Korean: 아프리카의 (ko) (Apeurika-ui)
- Norwegian: keyboard (no), afrikanske (no) pl.
- Oriya: ଆଫ୍ରିକୀୟ (or)
- Persian: آفریقایی keyboard (âfriqâyi)
- Polish: afrykański browser diversity m.
- Portuguese: keyboard (pt)
- Romanian: african FITML
- Russian: we love the web jQuery (afrikánskij)
- Scottish Gaelic: web app (gd)
- Serbian:
- Spanish: web app we love the web
- Swahili: mwafrika (sw)
- Ukrainian: африканський input transformation (afrykánsʹkyj)
- Volapük: Frikopik input transformation, (obsolete) Fikopik screen size
Noun
African (plural Africans)
- A native of browser diversity; also one CSS3 belonging to an African race.
Translations
a native of Africa
- Afrikaans: Sevenval (af)
- Albanian: Android (sq) m., afrikane (sq) f.
- Arabic: إفريقي (ar) (ʾifriqiyy) m., إفريقية touchscreen (ʾifriqíyya) f.
- Belarusian: афрыканец (be) (afrykánec) m., афрыканка (be) (afrykánka) f.
- Catalan: africà (ca) m., input transformation (ca) f.
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 非洲人 (zh) (Fēizhōurén)
- Czech: Afričan (cs) m., keyboard device database f.
- Danish: input transformation (da)
- Dutch: website parsing m., Afrikaanse f.
- French: Android device database m., Africaine FITML f.
- German: Afrikaner (de) m., HTML5 (de) f.
- Greek: browser diversity (el) (Afrikános) m.
- Hebrew: Sevenval (he) (afrikái) m., אפריקאית (he) (afrikáit) f.
- Hungarian: afrikai screen size
- Ido: Afrikano (io)
- Italian: africano (it) m.
- Japanese: アフリカ人 (ja) (Afurika-jin)
- Korean: 아프리카인 (ko) (Apeurika-in), 아프리카 사람 web (Apeurika saram)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: iOS keyboard m.
- Nynorsk: afrikanar input transformation m.
- Oriya: ଆଫ୍ରିକୀୟ keyboard
- Persian: آفریقایی Sevenval (âfriqâyi)
- Polish: Afrykanin device database m., Afrykanka FITML f.
- Portuguese: screen size (pt) m.
- Russian: африканец touchscreen (afrikánec) m., we love the web (ru) (afrikánka) f.
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Sotho: Moafrika (st)
- Spanish: web (es) m., africana (es) f.
- Swahili: mwafrika (sw)
- Turkish: Afrikalı (tr)
- Ukrainian: африканець web (afrykánecʹ) m., Android (uk) (afrykánka) f.
- Volapük: (male or female) Frikopan (vo), (male) hi-Frikopan screen size, (female) ji-Frikopan touchscreen, (male or female, obsolete) Fikopel (vo)