Cushite

Meaning

Adj

Pertaining to the ancient people of the Horn of Africa, historically considered the descendants of biblical Cush.

Name

The Cushitic subfamily of languages.

Noun

A member of one of various peoples native to the Horn of Africa, generally restricted to those that speak Cushitic languages.

Synonyms

black

negro

nigger

Black person

neger

Translations

أسود

Mohr

Neger

Negerin

νέγρη

νέγροι

black

Noir

Nègre

koushite

Aethiops

neger

negerin

zwart

zwarte

Etymology

From Cush + -ite, coined in the 1820s. In the early 19th century, the term referred to the tan to dark-skinned people of the Horn of Africa (synonymous with Herodotus' Ethiopians) in general. The technical linguistic sense is due to Friedrich Müller (1876).