Definitions for "Nigga"
(ethnic slur) offensive name for a Black person; "only a Black can call another Black a nigga"
Nigga is a term used in African American Vernacular English that began as an eye dialect form of the word nigger (which is derived ultimately from the Latin word meaning the color black).Randall Kennedy. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/nigger.htm Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, Pantheon. 256 pp