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kalu

kalu noun: a dark-skinned person.

Noun

kalu (uncountable)

  1. (India, offensive) a dark-skinned person.
    • When dark skin carries such a heavy burden of discrimination — one that is alive and kicking even today — calling a person kalu, regardless of how much affection it’s said with, cannot be harmless. - Rajvi Desai

Proper noun capitalized: Kalu

Kalu (plural Kalus)

  1. A surname from Igbo.

Forms of kalu

pluralKalus

Origin of kalu

Borrowed from Hindi कालू (kālū, “a dark-skinned person”).

Borrowed from Igbo.

Questions about kalu

What does kalu mean?
Kalu means a dark-skinned person.
What part of speech is kalu?
Kalu can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near kalu in the dictionary

  1. kalsomining
  2. Kaltenbach
  3. Kaltenbachs
  4. Kalterherberg
  5. Kalteux
  6. kalu
  7. kalua
  8. kaluaed
  9. Kalubihan
  10. Kaludirehaa
  11. kaluga

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