• Afrikan(sometimes used in AAVE)
• Afric(poetic,archaic)

Attested as a noun in early New EnglishAphricane,Africans(plural),Middle English asAffrican,Aufrican andOld English asAfricanas(“Africans”)(only plural). FromLatināfricānae, fromāfricānus, fromĀfricus.The adjective appears in the 16th century, asAffricane, Africane, African.

LatinĀfricus is fromĀfri (singularĀfer), the name of an ancient people of North Africa (nearCarthage, in modern Tunisia), with the suffix-icus.āfricānus is formed by addition of the-ānus suffix.

Bysurface analysis,Africa +‎-an.

• IPA^(key):/ˈæf.ɹɪ.kən/

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African (comparativemoreAfrican,superlativemostAfrican)

1. Of or pertaining toAfrica.
   • 2022 March 10, Daniel Howden, “Europe has rediscovered compassion for refugees – but only if they’re white”, inThe Guardian‎^[1]:

     Spain’s Melilla, one of two small exclaves of EU land on theAfrican continent, has long been the strongest distillation of fortress Europe.

2. Black;(dated,offensive)synonym ofnegroid.

   The truth is that I know the guy hadAfrican skin and a shirt of some sort.

   • 2013,Stem Cells—Advances in Research and Application: 2013 Edition, ScholarlyEditions,→ISBN, page311:

     In vivo and in vitro approaches in understanding the differences between Caucasian andAfrican skin types:[…]

   • For more quotations using this term, seeCitations:African.

African (pluralAfricans)

1. A native ofAfrica; also oneethnologically belonging to an African race.
   • 2007,African Immigrant Religions in America,→ISBN:

     Africans constitute significantly growing populations not only in major urban centers such as New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, and Atlanta but also in small and midsize cities in states such as Ohio and Maine.

   • 2019,Razib Khan,Arabia between Africa and Eurasia‎^[2]:

     But new research suggests another possibility: allAfricans may have ancestry from “West Eurasian” populations which moved back into Africa after the “Out of Africa” event ~50,000 years ago.[…]

• Francia,acifran