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Etymology

A Caucasian *(adjective sense 1)* family – in this case Russian settlers, possibly Molokans – in the Mugan plain of Azerbaijan, photographed by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky c. 1905–1915.

From Caucasus (“mountain range in Eastern Europe between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea”) +‎ -ian (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘from, related to, or like’, or forming nouns with the sense ‘one from, belonging to, relating to, or like’)Category:English terms suffixed with -ian#CAUCASIAN.^[1] The anthropological sense (no longer regarded as scientific) was popularized by the German anthropologist and physician Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752–1840), based on the belief that the first humans originated from there.^[2]^[3]

Noun sense 2 (“cocktail”) was popularized by the film The Big Lebowski (1998): see the quotation.

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of or relating to the Caucasus region or its culture, languages, and people

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Abkhaz: акавказтә (akʼavkʼaztʷʼ)Category:Terms with Abkhaz translations#CAUCASIAN
Arabic: قَوْقَازِيّ m (qawqāziyy)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#CAUCASIAN
Armenian: կովկասյան (kovkasyan)Category:Terms with Armenian translations#CAUCASIAN
Azerbaijani: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Azerbaijani#CAUCASIAN
Bulgarian: кавка́зки (kavkázki)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#CAUCASIAN
Catalan: caucasià (ca)Category:Terms with Catalan translations#CAUCASIAN, caucàsic (ca)Category:Terms with Catalan translations#CAUCASIAN
Chechen: кавказхойн (kavkazxojn)Category:Terms with Chechen translations#CAUCASIAN
Coptic: ⲕⲁⲩⲕⲟⲥ m (kaukos)Category:Terms with Coptic translations#CAUCASIAN, ⲭⲁⲩⲕⲓⲁⲛⲟⲥ m (khaukianos)Category:Terms with Coptic translations#CAUCASIAN
Czech: kavkazský (cs)Category:Terms with Czech translations#CAUCASIAN
Danish: kaukasiskCategory:Terms with Danish translations#CAUCASIAN
Esperanto: kaŭkazaCategory:Terms with Esperanto translations#CAUCASIAN
Finnish: kaukasialainen (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#CAUCASIAN
French: caucasien (fr)Category:Terms with French translations#CAUCASIAN
Georgian: კავკასიური (ḳavḳasiuri)Category:Terms with Georgian translations#CAUCASIAN, კავკასიის (ḳavḳasiis)Category:Terms with Georgian translations#CAUCASIAN
German: kaukasisch (de)Category:Terms with German translations#CAUCASIAN
Greek: καυκασιανός (el) (kafkasianós)Category:Terms with Greek translations#CAUCASIAN
Hawaiian: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Hawaiian#CAUCASIAN
Hungarian: kaukázusi (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#CAUCASIAN
Ingush: кавказски (kavkazski)Category:Terms with Ingush translations#CAUCASIAN
Irish: CugasachCategory:Terms with Irish translations#CAUCASIAN
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kaukasiskCategory:Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations#CAUCASIAN

Nynorsk: kaukasiskCategory:Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations#CAUCASIAN
Ossetian: кавказаг (kavkazag)Category:Terms with Ossetian translations#CAUCASIAN
Polish: kaukaski (pl)Category:Terms with Polish translations#CAUCASIAN
Portuguese: caucasiano (pt)Category:Terms with Portuguese translations#CAUCASIAN
Romanian: caucazian (ro) mCategory:Terms with Romanian translations#CAUCASIAN
Russian: кавка́зский (ru) (kavkázskij)Category:Terms with Russian translations#CAUCASIAN
Slovak: kaukazský (sk)Category:Terms with Slovak translations#CAUCASIAN
Spanish: caucásico (es)Category:Terms with Spanish translations#CAUCASIAN, caucasianoCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#CAUCASIAN, caucáseoCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#CAUCASIAN (disused)
Swedish: kaukasisk (sv)Category:Terms with Swedish translations#CAUCASIAN
Tagalog: KawkasinCategory:Terms with Tagalog translations#CAUCASIAN
Turkish: KafkasCategory:Terms with Turkish translations#CAUCASIAN

of a racial classification pertaining to people having certain phenotypical features such as straight, curly, or wavy hair and very light to brown pigmented skin

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Apache:
Western Apache: indaaCategory:Terms with Western Apache translations#CAUCASIAN
Arabic: يَافِثِيّ (yāfiṯiyy)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#CAUCASIAN, أَحْمَرِيّ (ʔaḥmariyy)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#CAUCASIAN, قَوْقَازِيّ (qawqāziyy)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#CAUCASIAN
Armenian: սպիտակամորթ (hy) (spitakamortʻ)Category:Terms with Armenian translations#CAUCASIAN
Azerbaijani: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Azerbaijani#CAUCASIAN
Bulgarian: европеиден (evropeiden)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#CAUCASIAN
Catalan: caucàsic (ca)Category:Terms with Catalan translations#CAUCASIAN
Chechen: кӏайн (kʼajn)Category:Terms with Chechen translations#CAUCASIAN
Danish: kaukasiskCategory:Terms with Danish translations#CAUCASIAN
Finnish: valkoihoinen (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#CAUCASIAN, valkoinen (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#CAUCASIAN
Georgian: კავკასიური (ḳavḳasiuri)Category:Terms with Georgian translations#CAUCASIAN, ევროპეოიდური (evroṗeoiduri)Category:Terms with Georgian translations#CAUCASIAN
Greek: καυκασιανός (el) (kafkasianós)Category:Terms with Greek translations#CAUCASIAN
Hawaiian: haoleCategory:Terms with Hawaiian translations#CAUCASIAN
Lakota: wasicuCategory:Terms with Lakota translations#CAUCASIAN
Mandingo:
Mandinka: toubobCategory:Terms with Mandinka translations#CAUCASIAN
Persian: قفقازی (fa) (qafqâzi)Category:Terms with Persian translations#CAUCASIAN
Polish: kaukaski (pl) mCategory:Terms with Polish translations#CAUCASIAN
Portuguese: caucasiano (pt)Category:Terms with Portuguese translations#CAUCASIAN
Romanian: caucaziană (ro) fCategory:Terms with Romanian translations#CAUCASIAN
Russian: бе́лый (ru) (bélyj)Category:Terms with Russian translations#CAUCASIAN, европе́йский (ru) (jevropéjskij)Category:Terms with Russian translations#CAUCASIAN, европео́идный (ru) (jevropeóidnyj)Category:Terms with Russian translations#CAUCASIAN
Spanish: caucásico (es)Category:Terms with Spanish translations#CAUCASIAN, caucáseoCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#CAUCASIAN (disused)
Sranan Tongo: bakraCategory:Terms with Sranan Tongo translations#CAUCASIAN
Swedish: kaukasisk (sv)Category:Terms with Swedish translations#CAUCASIAN
Turkish: KafkasCategory:Terms with Turkish translations#CAUCASIAN

of a person: having a white complexion and European ancestry — see also white

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Spanish: caucásico (es)Category:Terms with Spanish translations#CAUCASIAN, caucáseoCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#CAUCASIAN (disused)
Sranan Tongo: bakraCategory:Terms with Sranan Tongo translations#CAUCASIAN

Noun

Caucasian (plural Caucasians)Category:English lemmas#CAUCASIAN Category:English nouns#CAUCASIAN Category:English countable nouns#CAUCASIAN Category:English entries with incorrect language header#CAUCASIAN Category:Pages with entries#CAUCASIAN Category:Pages with 1 entry#CAUCASIAN

A native or inhabitant of the Caucasus.
(alcoholic beverages Category:en:Alcoholic beverages#CAUCASIAN, humorous Category:English humorous terms#CAUCASIAN) Synonym of White Russian (“a cocktail consisting of coffee liqueur, milk, and vodka”).
- 1998 January 18, Joel and Ethan Coen, The Big Lebowski (motion picture), spoken by Jeffrey (“The Dude”) Lebowski (Jeff Bridges):
  I'll go out and mingle. Jesus, you mix a hell of a Caucasian, Jackie.
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(anthropology Category:en:Anthropology#CAUCASIAN, dated Category:English dated terms#CAUCASIAN) A member of the Caucasian racial classification (adjective sense 2).
(linguistics Category:en:Linguistics#CAUCASIAN) A group of languages spoken in the Caucasus region.
(Canada, US Category:Canadian English#CAUCASIAN Category:American English#CAUCASIAN) A white person.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:white person
- 2008, Ridley Pearson, chapter 2, in Killer View, Jove premium edition, New York, N.Y.: Jove Books, published 2009, →ISBN:
  The male Caucasian, twenty-four, a skier, was said to have been missing for over three hours.
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Alternative forms

caucasian

Derived terms

Northeast Caucasian
South Caucasian (noun, proper noun)

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native or inhabitant of the Caucasus

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Arabic: قَوْقَازِيّ m (qawqāziyy)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#CAUCASIAN
Armenian: կովկասցի (hy) (kovkascʻi)Category:Terms with Armenian translations#CAUCASIAN
Chinese:
Mandarin: 高加索人 (Gāojiāsuǒ rén)Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#CAUCASIAN
Czech: Kavkazan mCategory:Terms with Czech translations#CAUCASIAN
Danish: kaukasier cCategory:Terms with Danish translations#CAUCASIAN
Esperanto: kaŭkazanoCategory:Terms with Esperanto translations#CAUCASIAN, kaŭkazanino fCategory:Terms with Esperanto translations#CAUCASIAN
Finnish: kaukasialainen (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#CAUCASIAN
French: Caucasien (fr) mCategory:Terms with French translations#CAUCASIAN, Caucasienne (fr) fCategory:Terms with French translations#CAUCASIAN
Georgian: კავკასიელი (ḳavḳasieli)Category:Terms with Georgian translations#CAUCASIAN
German: Kaukasier (de) mCategory:Terms with German translations#CAUCASIAN, Kaukasierin (de) fCategory:Terms with German translations#CAUCASIAN
Greek: Καυκάσιος (el) m (Kafkásios)Category:Terms with Greek translations#CAUCASIAN, Καυκάσια (el) f (Kafkásia)Category:Terms with Greek translations#CAUCASIAN
Hebrew: קווקזי m (qavqazi)Category:Terms with Hebrew translations#CAUCASIAN, קווקזית f (qavqazít)Category:Terms with Hebrew translations#CAUCASIAN
Irish: Cugasach mCategory:Terms with Irish translations#CAUCASIAN
Japanese: カフカース人 (Kafukāsu-jin)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#CAUCASIAN
Kazakh: кавказдық (kavkazdyq)Category:Terms with Kazakh translations#CAUCASIAN
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kaukasier mCategory:Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations#CAUCASIAN
Ossetian: кавказаг (kavkazag)Category:Terms with Ossetian translations#CAUCASIAN
Portuguese: caucasiano (pt) mCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#CAUCASIAN, caucasiana fCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#CAUCASIAN
Russian: кавка́зец (ru) (kavkázec)Category:Terms with Russian translations#CAUCASIAN
Spanish: caucáseo mCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#CAUCASIAN (disused), caucásico (es) mCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#CAUCASIAN, caucasiano mCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#CAUCASIAN
Tagalog: KawkaseyoCategory:Terms with Tagalog translations#CAUCASIAN
Turkish: KafkasCategory:Terms with Turkish translations#CAUCASIAN, Kafkasyalı (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#CAUCASIAN

synonym of White Russian — see White Russian

member of the Caucasian racial classification

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Apache:
Chiricahua: dáadatł’ijéndeCategory:Terms with Chiricahua translations#CAUCASIAN, indaaCategory:Terms with Chiricahua translations#CAUCASIAN, indaałigańdeCategory:Terms with Chiricahua translations#CAUCASIAN, indaałigaéndeCategory:Terms with Chiricahua translations#CAUCASIAN, (Mescalero) indaa’Category:Terms with Chiricahua translations#CAUCASIAN

Jicarilla: Ma̠gáaniiCategory:Terms with Jicarilla translations#CAUCASIAN

Western Apache: indaaCategory:Terms with Western Apache translations#CAUCASIAN, innaaCategory:Terms with Western Apache translations#CAUCASIAN
Arabic: يَافِثِيّ m (yāfiṯiyy)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#CAUCASIAN, يَافِثِيَّة f (yāfiṯiyya)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#CAUCASIAN, أَحْمَرِيّ m (ʔaḥmariyy)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#CAUCASIAN, حَمْرَاء f (ḥamrāʔ)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#CAUCASIAN, قَوْقَازِيّ m (qawqāziyy)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#CAUCASIAN, قَوْقَازِيَّة f (qawqāziyya)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#CAUCASIAN
Armenian: սպիտակամորթ (hy) (spitakamortʻ)Category:Terms with Armenian translations#CAUCASIAN
Cheyenne: vé'ho'eCategory:Terms with Cheyenne translations#CAUCASIAN
Chichewa: mzunguCategory:Terms with Chichewa translations#CAUCASIAN
Chinese:
Mandarin: 白人 (zh) (báirén)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#CAUCASIAN Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#CAUCASIAN, 白種人 / 白种人 (zh) (báizhǒngrén)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#CAUCASIAN Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#CAUCASIAN
Czech: běloch (cs) mCategory:Terms with Czech translations#CAUCASIAN, europoid mCategory:Terms with Czech translations#CAUCASIAN
Danish: kaukasier cCategory:Terms with Danish translations#CAUCASIAN
Dena'ina: gasht’anaCategory:Terms with Dena'ina translations#CAUCASIAN
Esperanto: kaŭkazuloCategory:Terms with Esperanto translations#CAUCASIAN
Ewe: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Ewe#CAUCASIAN
Finnish: valkoinen (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#CAUCASIAN, valkoihoinen (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#CAUCASIAN
Fon: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Fon#CAUCASIAN
French: Blanc (fr) mCategory:Terms with French translations#CAUCASIAN, Blanche (fr) fCategory:Terms with French translations#CAUCASIAN, Caucasien (fr) mCategory:Terms with French translations#CAUCASIAN, Caucasienne (fr) fCategory:Terms with French translations#CAUCASIAN
Georgian: თეთრი რასა (tetri rasa)Category:Terms with Georgian translations#CAUCASIAN, თეთრი (ka) (tetri)Category:Terms with Georgian translations#CAUCASIAN, თეთრკანიანი (tetrḳaniani)Category:Terms with Georgian translations#CAUCASIAN, ევროპეოიდი (evroṗeoidi)Category:Terms with Georgian translations#CAUCASIAN
German: Europide (de) mCategory:Terms with German translations#CAUCASIAN, Weißer (de) mCategory:Terms with German translations#CAUCASIAN (indef.), Weiße (de) m or fCategory:Terms with German translations#CAUCASIAN (m. def, f. def. and indef.)
Gullah: buckruhCategory:Terms with Gullah translations#CAUCASIAN
Hawaiian: haoleCategory:Terms with Hawaiian translations#CAUCASIAN
Italian: bianco (it)Category:Terms with Italian translations#CAUCASIAN
Japanese: 白人 (ja) (はくじん, hakujin)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#CAUCASIAN
Karok: apxantínihichCategory:Terms with Karok translations#CAUCASIAN, simsimtâarCategory:Terms with Karok translations#CAUCASIAN, mákayCategory:Terms with Karok translations#CAUCASIAN
Kikuyu: Mũthũngũ class 1Category:Terms with Kikuyu translations#CAUCASIAN
Korean: 백인(白人) (ko) (baegin)Category:Terms with Korean translations#CAUCASIAN
Lakota: wasicuCategory:Terms with Lakota translations#CAUCASIAN
Mandingo:
Mandinka: toubobCategory:Terms with Mandinka translations#CAUCASIAN
Māori: pākehāCategory:Terms with Māori translations#CAUCASIAN
Navajo: bilagáanaCategory:Terms with Navajo translations#CAUCASIAN
Ojibwe: ᔖᑲᓈᐦᔥCategory:Terms with Ojibwe translations#CAUCASIAN, zhaaganaashCategory:Terms with Ojibwe translations#CAUCASIAN, waabishkiiweCategory:Terms with Ojibwe translations#CAUCASIAN
Portuguese: caucasiano (pt) mCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#CAUCASIAN, caucasiana fCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#CAUCASIAN
Russian: бе́лый (ru) m (bélyj)Category:Terms with Russian translations#CAUCASIAN, бе́лая (ru) f (bélaja)Category:Terms with Russian translations#CAUCASIAN, европе́ец (ru) (jevropéjec)Category:Terms with Russian translations#CAUCASIAN, европе́йка (ru) (jevropéjka)Category:Terms with Russian translations#CAUCASIAN, европео́ид (ru) m (jevropeóid)Category:Terms with Russian translations#CAUCASIAN
Spanish: caucásico (es) mCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#CAUCASIAN
Sranan Tongo: bakraCategory:Terms with Sranan Tongo translations#CAUCASIAN, yoboCategory:Terms with Sranan Tongo translations#CAUCASIAN, wetimanCategory:Terms with Sranan Tongo translations#CAUCASIAN
Swedish: kaukasier (sv) cCategory:Terms with Swedish translations#CAUCASIAN, kaukas cCategory:Terms with Swedish translations#CAUCASIAN, kaukasiska (sv) f or cCategory:Terms with Swedish translations#CAUCASIAN
Taos: phonsáynaCategory:Terms with Taos translations#CAUCASIAN
Thai: คนผิวขาว (kon pĭw-kăao)Category:Terms with Thai translations#CAUCASIAN
Turkish: KafkasCategory:Terms with Turkish translations#CAUCASIAN, Kafkasyalı (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#CAUCASIAN
Tyap: Nsala (kcg)Category:Terms with Tyap translations#CAUCASIAN
Vietnamese: người da trắngCategory:Terms with Vietnamese translations#CAUCASIAN (𠊛𤿦𤽸Category:Terms with Vietnamese translations#CAUCASIAN), người trắngCategory:Terms with Vietnamese translations#CAUCASIAN (𠊛𤽸Category:Terms with Vietnamese translations#CAUCASIAN)
Yup'ik: kass'aqCategory:Terms with Yup'ik translations#CAUCASIAN
Zulu: umlungu class 1/2Category:Terms with Zulu translations#CAUCASIAN

group of languages spoken in the Caucasus region

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white person

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Apache:
Western Apache: innáCategory:Terms with Western Apache translations#CAUCASIAN
Chinese:
Cantonese: 鬼佬 (yue) (gwai² lou²)Category:Cantonese terms with redundant transliterations#CAUCASIAN Category:Terms with Cantonese translations#CAUCASIAN (colloquial, derogatory)

Mandarin: 洋人 (zh) (yángrén)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#CAUCASIAN Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#CAUCASIAN, 白人 (zh) (báirén)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#CAUCASIAN Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#CAUCASIAN, 高鼻子 (gāobízi)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#CAUCASIAN Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#CAUCASIAN (slang)
Esperanto: blankuloCategory:Terms with Esperanto translations#CAUCASIAN
Lushootseed: pastədCategory:Terms with Lushootseed translations#CAUCASIAN

References

↑ “Caucasian, adj. and n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, December 2018; “Caucasian, adj. and n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
↑ Io. Frid. Blumenbach [i.e., Johann Friedrich Blumenbach] (1795), “Sectio IV. Generis humani varietates quinae principes, species vero unica.”, in De generis hvmani varietate nativa […] [The Natural Variety of the Human Race] (in Latin), 3rd edition, Göttingen, Lower Saxony: Vandenhoek et Rvprecht, →OCLC, § 82 (Characteres et limites harum varietatum), page 289.
↑ Stephen Jay Gould (November 1994), “The Geometer of Race”, in Discover‎, Waukesha, Wis.: Kalmbach Publishing Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 January 2021, pages 65–69:
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752–1840), the German anatomist and naturalist who established the most influential of all racial classifications, invented this name [Caucasian] in 1795, in the third edition of his seminal work, De Generis Humani Varietate Nativa (On the Natural Variety of Mankind). Blumenbach’s definition cites two reasons for his choice—the maximal beauty of the people from this small region, and the probability that humans were first created in this area.

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