different between aboriginal vs lubra

English

Etymology

See Aboriginal.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?æb.????d??.n?.l?/, /?æb.????d??.?n.l?/

Adjective

aboriginal (comparative more aboriginal, superlative most aboriginal)

1. First according to historical or scientific records; original; indigenous; primitive. [First attested in the mid 17th century.]
2. Living in a land before colonization by the Europeans. [First attested in the late 17th century.]
3. Alternative letter-case form of Aboriginal [First attested in the late 18th century.]

Synonyms

• (indigenous to a place): ancient, autochthonous, earliest, endemic, first, indigenous, native, original, primeval, primitive, primordial

Derived terms

• aboriginality
• aboriginally

Related terms

• aborigine

Translations

Noun

aboriginal (plural aboriginals)

1. An animal or plant native to a region. [First attested in the mid 18th century.]
2. Alternative letter-case form of Aboriginal [First attested in the mid 18th century.]

Usage notes

• Using uncapitalized aboriginal to refer to people or anything associated with people may cause offence.
• In Canada and Australia, style manuals recommend against using the noun Aboriginal for a person or people.
• See also the usage notes under Aboriginal.

Translations

References

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /abo?ixi?nal/, [a.??o.?i.xi?nal]

Noun

aboriginal m or f (plural aboriginales)

1. Aborigine (original inhabitant of Australia)

   Synonym: aborigen

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lu?b??/

Noun

lubra (plural lubras)

1. (Australia, now racially offensive) A female Aboriginal Australian.
   • 2001, Robert Denis Whittle One Skin For An Overlander, page 166,

     The lubras were standing up now, in a tight little circle, with their fighting sticks raised. There was another burst of argument and then first one lubra, then another struck her opponent a blow on the head.

   • 2003, Les Hughes, Henry Mundy: A Young Australian Pioneer, page 94,

     As I have mentioned before, Lubra Creek derived its name from a wanton slaughter of several lubras by an enraged band of squatters whose sheep had been stolen, slaughtered and eaten by the blacks. It was usual when anything of that kind happened to band together for the squatter, and hunt for the delinquents and shoot down the first blacks they caught innocent or guilty. In the case of the Lubra Creek tragedy, it appears they could not drop across any black fellows and finding the lubras hidden in the shrub, ruthlessly shot them down.

Anagrams

• ablur