English-Portuguese translations for ethnic

• étnica
  A violência étnica é sempre um mal. Ethnic violence is always evil.
  Assunto: Minorias étnicas na Sérvia Subject: Ethnic minorities in Serbia
  Poderíamos muito bem chamar-lhe limpeza étnica. You could call this ethnic cleansing.
• étnico
  O Tratado não reconhece outros grupos étnicos. The treaty does not recognise other ethnic groups.
  Isto pode pôr termos aos conflitos étnicos recorrentes. This may put an end to the recurring ethnic conflicts.
  O primeiro é o contexto étnico. The first is the ethnic context.

Definition of ethnic

• Of or relating to a group of people having common racial, ancestral, national, religious or cultural origins
• Characteristic of a foreign, usually non-Western culture
• Representative of a folk or traditional mode of expression
• Heathen, not Jewish, Christian, or Muslim
• An ethnic person, especially a foreigner or member of an immigrant community
• A heathen, a pagan
• ''in classical scholarship'') the demonym of an Ancient Greek city

Examples

• There are many ethnic Indonesians in the Netherlands
• I like to eat ethnic food

Related words

• ethnicity
• multiethnic
• ethnical
• ethnically
• interethnic
• ethnicon
• antiethnic
• multi-ethnicity
• ethnic nationalism