# blak
## English
### Alternative forms

* Blak

### Etymology

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

### Adjective

blak
* (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: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.

#### Derived terms

* blakness

### Noun

blak (plural blaks)
* (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: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’.

### Anagrams

* Balk, balk

## Bislama
### Etymology

From English black.

### Adjective

blak
* black

## Faroese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /plɛaːk/
    Rhymes: -ɛaːk

### Etymology 1

verbal noun of blaka

#### Noun

blak n (genitive singular blaks, plural bløk)
* a thrown object
* a throw

##### Synonyms

* kast

##### Derived terms

* kavablak

##### Related terms

* blaka

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

blak n (genitive singular blaks, uncountable)
* buttermilk

##### Synonyms

* blaðak

## German
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -aːk

### Verb

blak
* singular imperative of blaken
* (colloquial) first-person singular present of blaken

## Icelandic
### Etymology

From Old Norse blak.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /plaːk/
    Rhymes: -aːk

### Noun

blak n (genitive singular blaks, nominative plural blök)
* flapping, waving (e.g. in the wind)
* light blow
    Synonyms: skellur, högg
* (sports) volleyball
* the tail of a halibut

#### Derived terms

* strandblak
* bera blak af einhverjum (“to protect someone, to make excuses for someone”)

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* blake, blakke, black, blac

### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /blak/, /blaːk/

#### Adjective

blak (plural and weak singular blake, comparative blakker, superlative blakkest)
* black (of a black color)
* black (having black skin)
* black-haired
* dark, blackish

##### Descendants

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

##### References

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

### Etymology 2
#### Adjective

blak
* Alternative form of blake (“pale, yellowish”)

### See also

Colors in Middle English · coloures, hewes (layout · text) :
| whit | grey, hor | blak |
| red; cremesyn, gernet | citrine, aumbre; broun, tawne | yelow, dorry, gul; canevas |
| grasgrene | grene | |
| plunket; ewage | asure, livid | blewe, blo, pers |
| violet; inde | rose, murrey; purpel, purpur | claret |

## Tok Pisin
### Etymology

From English black.

### Adjective

blak
* black