"Paki" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈpæki/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Paki.wav [Southern-England]
Rhymes: -æki Etymology: Either a clipping of Pakistani or a back-formation from Pakistan. Doublet of Pak. Etymology templates: {{clipping|en|Pakistani|nocap=1}} clipping of Pakistani, {{back-formation|en|Pakistan|nocap=1}} back-formation from Pakistan, {{doublet|en|Pak}} Doublet of Pak Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} Paki (not comparable)
  1. (British, Canada, derogatory, ethnic slur) Pakistani, or perceived to be Pakistani. Tags: British, Canada, derogatory, ethnic, not-comparable, slur Derived forms: Paki shop Translations (Pakistani): па́ковский (pákovskij) [rare] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-Paki-en-adj-3NvKrylI Categories (other): British English, Canadian English, English ethnic slurs, English ethnic slurs Disambiguation of English ethnic slurs: 42 10 36 12

Noun

IPA: /ˈpæki/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Paki.wav [Southern-England] Forms: Pakis [plural]
Rhymes: -æki Etymology: Either a clipping of Pakistani or a back-formation from Pakistan. Doublet of Pak. Etymology templates: {{clipping|en|Pakistani|nocap=1}} clipping of Pakistani, {{back-formation|en|Pakistan|nocap=1}} back-formation from Pakistan, {{doublet|en|Pak}} Doublet of Pak Head templates: {{en-noun}} Paki (plural Pakis)
  1. (UK, Canada, India) A Pakistani. Tags: Canada, India, UK, ethnic, offensive, slur Translations (a Pakistani): pakkis [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), pakkis [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), пак (pak) [masculine, rare] (Russian), па́ки (páki) (note: from English) [feminine, masculine, rare] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-Paki-en-noun-f6~qIWm0 Categories (other): British English, Canadian English, Indian English Disambiguation of 'a Pakistani': 94 4 2
  2. (UK, Canada) Anyone whose origins are perceived to be from South Asia/the Indian subcontinent. Tags: Canada, UK, ethnic, offensive, slur
    Sense id: en-Paki-en-noun-eh-a2S-4 Categories (other): British English, Canadian English, English back-formations, English entries with incorrect language header, English ethnic slurs Disambiguation of English back-formations: 16 23 42 18 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 11 16 49 24 Disambiguation of English ethnic slurs: 42 10 36 12
  3. (UK) Ellipsis of Paki shop. Tags: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, ethnic, offensive, slur Alternative form of: Paki shop
    Sense id: en-Paki-en-noun-CTj3ctlX Categories (other): British English, English ethnic slurs Disambiguation of English ethnic slurs: 42 10 36 12

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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  "word": "Paki"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.