Kanak

• Canaque

First attested in 1910, borrowed from French canaque, from English kanaka (“Pacific islander”), from Hawaiian kanaka (“person”).

• IPA^(key): /kəˈnæk/

Kanak (plural Kanaks or Kanak)

1. An indigenous Melanesian inhabitant of New Caledonia.
   • 2024 May 17, Julien Mazzoni, “New Caledonia riots: parts of territory ‘out of state control’, French representative says”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     In the working-class districts of Nouméa, which have a high population of indigenous Kanak residents, buildings were burned and wrecked vehicles remained in the middle of the road.

• Canuck
• Kanaky
• Kaneka, Kanéka

• Knaak

• Canaque

IPA^(key): /ka.nak/

Kanak m or f by sense (plural Kanaks, feminine Kanake)

1. Kanak

• canaque
• kanak, kanake

• Kanack

• IPA^(key): /ˈkanak/, /ˈkænək/, /kɛnɛk/

Kanak m (strong, genitive Kanaks, plural Kanaks or Kanax)

1. slang form of Kanake (“wog”)