Etymology
See Creole. Attested in English to refer to language from the 18th century.[1]
Noun
creole (plural creoles)
- (linguistics) A language formed from two or more languages which has developed from a pidgin to become a first language.
1818, The Methodist Magazine, page 317:There are three orders of people: those who were alive when the French possessed the island: they understand the good French; those who were born in the heat of the Revolution, and who have arrived at maturity without instruction, these speak only Creole […]
1966, Beryl Loftman Bailey, Jamaican Creole Syntax, page 144:From the point of view of syntactic analysis, I have shown how transformational theory may be applied to the syntax of a Creole language.
- Alternative letter-case form of Creole (“person born in a colony”)
- a style of hoop earrings that comprise of a hoop that has an inconsistent thickness and/or is elongated in shape
Translations
lect descended from a pidgin language
- Antillean Creole: kréyol, kwéyol
- Armenian: կրեոլ (hy) (kreol), կրեոլյան լեզու (kreolyan lezu), կրեոլ լեզու (hy) (kreol lezu)
- Asturian: llingua criolla f
- Basque: kreolera
- Belarusian: крэо́л m (kreól), крэо́льская мо́ва f (kreólʹskaja móva)
- Bulgarian: крео́л m (kreól), крео́лски ези́к m (kreólski ezík)
- Catalan: crioll (ca) m, llengua criolla f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 克里奧爾語／克里奥尔语 (zh) (kèlǐ'ào'ěryǔ)
- Czech: kreolština f
- Danish: kreolsprog
- Dutch: creools (nl) n
- Esperanto: kreolo, kreola lingvo
- Estonian: kreoolkeel
- Finnish: kreoli (fi), kreolikieli (fi)
- French: créole (fr) m, langue créole f
- Galician: lingua crioula f
- Georgian: კრეოლური ენა (ḳreoluri ena)
- German: Kreolsprache (de) f, Kreol n
- Greek: μιγάς (el) m (migás), μιγάδα (el) f (migáda), κρεολή γλώσσα (el) f (kreolí glóssa)
- Guianese Creole: kriyòl
- Haitian Creole: kreyòl, lang kreyòl
- Hebrew: שפה קריאולית
- Hindi: क्रियोल भाषा (kriyol bhāṣā)
- Hungarian: kreol nyelv
- Icelandic: kreólamál n
- Ido: kreola linguo
- Indonesian: bahasa kreol (id)
- Interlingua: lingua creol
- Irish: fásteanga (ga) f
- Italian: creolo (it), lingua creola f
- Japanese: クレオール (ja) (kureōru), クリオール (kuriōru), クレオール言語
- Korean: 크리올 (keuriol)
- Krio: krio
- Limburgish: creooltaol
- Low German:
- German Low German: Kreoolspraak f
- Macedonian: кре́ол m (kréol)
- Norwegian: kreolspråk n
- Occitan: creòl m
- Papiamentu: idioma krioyo
- Persian: کریول
- Pijin: pijin
- Polish: język kreolski (pl) m
- Portuguese: crioulo (pt) m, língua crioula f
- Romanian: limbă creolă f
- Russian: крео́л (ru) m (kreól), крео́льский язы́к m (kreólʹskij jazýk), креолизо́ванный язы́к m (kreolizóvannyj jazýk)
- Sardinian: limba crèola
- Serbo-Croatian: kreolski jezik m, креолски језик m
- Slovene: kreolščina f
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: kreolska rěc f
- Upper Sorbian: kreolska rěč f
- Spanish: criollo (es) m, lengua criolla f
- Swahili: krioli
- Swedish: kreolspråk (sv) n
- Tamil: கிரியோல் மொழி (kiriyōl moḻi)
- Thai: ภาษาครีโอล
- Tok Pisin: pisin (tpi)
- Turkish: kreolce
- Ukrainian: крео́л m (kreól), крео́льська мо́ва f (kreólʹsʹka móva)
- Welsh: iaith greol f, creoliaith f
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