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Haitian
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haitian
English
Etymology
en :af Haiti -an + 1
Pronunciation
en /ˈheɪ.ʃən/ UK,US
en eɪʃən 2
en Haitian USA.ogg US
Noun
A person from Haiti or of Haitian descent.
en Michel DeGraff As a Child in Haiti, I Was Taught to Despise My Language and Myself w:The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/14/opinion/haiti-kreyol-creole-language-education.html 2022-10-14 The goal was to make Haitians dependent on France, from their economy to their culture to the very words they spoke. https://web.archive.org/web/20230602060927/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/14/opinion/haiti-kreyol-creole-language-education.html
Translations
person from Haiti
Asturian: ast haitianu m, ast haitiana f
Azerbaijani: az haitili
Catalan: ca haitià m, ca haitiana f
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 海地人 Hǎidìrén
Czech: cs Haiťan m
Danish: da haitianer c
Dutch: nl Haïtiaan m, nl Haïtiaanse f
Esperanto: eo haitiano m, eo haitianino f
Finnish: fi haitilainen
French: fr Haïtien m, fr Haïtienne f
Galician: gl haitiano m
German: de Haitianer m, de Haitianerin f
Greek: el Αϊτινός m, el Αϊτινή f
Italian: it haitiano m, it haitiana f
Japanese: ja ハイチ人 Haichi-jin
Korean: ko 아이티인, ko 아이티 사람
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb haitier m, nb haitianer m
Nynorsk: nn haitiar m
Polish: pl Haitańczyk m, pl Haitanka f
Portuguese: pt haitiano m
Romanian: ro haitian m, ro haitiană f
Russian: ru гаитя́нин m, ru гаитя́нка f
Slovene: sl haitan
Spanish: es haitiano m, es haitiana f
Swahili: sw Mhaiti
Swedish: sv haitier c
Turkish: tr Haitili
Ukrainian: uk гаїтянин, uk гаїтянка f
Proper noun
Haitian Creole, one of the official languages of Haiti.
Adjective
-
Of, from, or pertaining to Haiti, its inhabitants, or their language.
en Michel DeGraff As a Child in Haiti, I Was Taught to Despise My Language and Myself w:The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/14/opinion/haiti-kreyol-creole-language-education.html 2022-10-14 That would have given Haitian students a chance to function in both languages while prizing their national identity. https://web.archive.org/web/20230602060927/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/14/opinion/haiti-kreyol-creole-language-education.html
Derived terms
en anti-Haitianism Haitianism Haitianization Haitianize Haitianness
Translations
pertaining to the country, people, or language
Asturian: ast haitianu
Catalan: ca haitià
Czech: cs haitský
Danish: da haitiansk, da haitisk
Dutch: nl Haïtiaans
Finnish: fi haitilainen
French: fr haïtien
Galician: gl haitiano
German: de haitianisch
Haitian Creole: ht ayisyen
Italian: it haitiano
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb haitisk
Nynorsk: nn haitisk
Polish: pl haitański
Portuguese: pt haitiano
Romanian: ro haitian
Russian: ru гаитя́нский
Slovene: sl haitijski
Spanish: es haitiano
Swahili: sw Kihaiti
Ukrainian: uk гаїтя́нський
Further reading
Haitian creole Wikipedia
Haitian Creole - English Dictionary: from Webster's Dictionary - the Rosetta Edition.
en terms suffixed with -ian
en Nationalities