black

[blæk] 1. adjective

1) (of the colour in which these words are printed: black paint.) črn

2) (without light: a black night; The night was black and starless.) temen

3) (dirty: Your hands are black!; black hands from lifting coal.) umazan

4) (without milk: black coffee.) črn

5) (evil: black magic.) črn

6) ((often offensive: currently acceptable in the United States, South Africa etc) Negro, of African, West Indian descent.) črnski

7) ((especially South Africa) coloured; of mixed descent (increasingly used by people of mixed descent to refer to themselves).) črn

2. noun

1) (the colour in which these words are printed: Black and white are opposites.) črna (barva)

2) (something (eg paint) black in colour: I've used up all the black.) črna barva

3) ((often with capital: often offensive: currently acceptable in the United states, South Africa etc) a Negro; a person of African, West Indian etc descent.) črnec

3. verb

(to make black.) počrniti

- blackness

- blacken
- black art/magic
- blackbird
- blackboard
- black box
- the Black Death
- black eye
- blackhead
- blacklist 4. verb

(to put (a person etc) on such a list.) dati na črno listo

- blackmail

5. noun

(the act of blackmailing: money got by blackmail.) izsiljevanje

- blackmailer

- Black Maria
- black market
- black marketeer
- blackout
- black sheep
- blacksmith
- black and blue
- black out
- in black and white

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I [blæk]

adjective

črn; temen, mračen; jezen, srdit; obupan, žalosten

black art — magija

black ball — črna kroglica (volitve)

to beat black and blue — pošteno naklestiti

to be in s.o.'s black books — biti pri kom slabo zapisan, v nemilosti

black death — kuga

the devil is not so black as he is painted — stvar ni tako huda, kakor je videti

to have a black dog on one's head — biti zelo potrt

black drops — opijeve kapljice

to get off with a black eye — poceni jo odnesti

to be black in the face — biti besen

as black as ink ( —ali soot, your hat) — črn ko smola

black friar — dominikanec

black frost — suh mraz

black heart — hudobno srce

the kettle calls the saucepan black — sova sinici glavana pravi

a black letter day — nesrečni dan; delavnik

black look — čemeren, preteči pogled

to get a black mark — priti na slab glas

Black Mary ( —ali Maria) — zeleni Henrik

Black Monday — nesrečen, kritični dan; prvi dan pouka v šoli

the black ox has trodden on his foot — potrt, zaskrbljen je

black peper — poper

the pot calls the kettle black — sova sinici glavana pravi

black pudding — krvavica

Black Rod — najvišji uradnik Gornjega doma

black rust botany pšenična snet

a black sheep in the family — črna ovca v družini

Black & Tans — vzdevek britanskih čet na Irskem

to swear the black is white — prisegati, da je črno belo

as black as thunder — skrajno razdražen, besen

Black Watch — 42. škotski polk

II [blæk]

noun

črna barva, črnota, črnina; črnec; loščilo

old gentleman in black — vrag

to have in black and white — imeti črno na belem

to wear black — v črno se obleči

III [blæk]

transitive verb

počrniti; zatemniti; loščiti čevlje

to black out — zatemniti; prikrivati pred javnostjo; zbrisati, prepovedati

blacked out — nezavesten