nigga

== English == === Alternative forms === niggah, nigguh, nikka, nikkah, niqqa, nugga === Etymology 1 === From a dialectal non-rhotic pronunciation of nigger. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /ˈnɪɡə/ Rhymes: -ɪɡə(ɹ) Hyphenation: nig‧ga ==== Noun ==== nigga (plural niggas or niggaz) (vulgar) (offensive, ethnic slur, dated) Pronunciation spelling of nigger. (slang, often offensive, but also often used affectionately in African-American Vernacular) A close and loyal friend. (slang, often offensive, but tolerated in African-American Vernacular) A black person (usually a male friend), especially an African American. (slang, often offensive, chiefly African-American Vernacular) Any person, though chiefly male. (slang, often offensive, but tolerated in African-American Vernacular) A male, especially an adult one, as opposed to a female. ===== Usage notes ===== There have been efforts by those of African descent to reclaim the word nigger, especially in this form (nigga, and its variants such as niggah), but these efforts are controversial, and some people do not believe it is able to be reclaimed, due to its fraught history and continued derogatory usage. Usage by non-black people is usually considered highly offensive. For more, see nigger. This word cannot be distinguished from nigger in non-rhotic accent varieties, such as most British English accents. Several variant spellings of this word have been in use for a long time, including niggah and nigguh, which were long only pluralized with -s (niggahs, etc.) but are now often (informally) also pluralized with the eye dialect ending -z (niggahz). More recently, spellings like nikka and nikkah have also come into use in informal dialogue and hip-hop. Sometimes, especially in period writing from before the mid-20th century, nigguh is specifically pronunciation spelling for a white Southern realization of nigger, and nigga(h) is pronunciation spelling for an African-American realization. Numerous other variations are used for lyrical purposes, such as Snoop Dogg's "fo shizzle my nizzle" ("for sure, my nigga.") ===== Synonyms ===== (a friend; a black person): nigger, nizzle; homie ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== See also ==== nigga on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Etymology 2 === Of Old Akkadian origin. Unrelated to Etymology 1. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /ˈnɪɡə/ Rhymes: -ɪɡə ==== Noun ==== nigga (plural niggas) A type of acrographic lexical list included in Old Babylonian scribal curriculum. === References === === Anagrams === Gangi, aging