caribou

caribou

See also: Caribou

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Canadian French caribou, from Mi'kmaq qalipu (“caribou”) (compare qalipi (“to shovel snow”)), from Proto-Algonquian *maka·lipowa (“caribou; it shovels snow”).

Caribou.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɛɹəbu/
• enPR: kăr'ə-bū'

• Audio (US)

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Noun

caribou (plural caribous or caribou)

1. Any of several North American subspecies of the reindeer, Rangifer tarandus.

Derived terms

• barren-ground caribou (R. t. groenlandicus)
• boreal woodland caribou (R. t. caribou)
• Caribou County
• Dawson's caribou (†R. t. dawsoni)
• East Greenland caribou (†R. t. eogroenlandicus)
• forest caribou
• Grant's caribou (R. t. granti)
• Labrador caribou (R. t. caboti)
• Newfoundland caribou (R. t. terraenovae)
• Osborn's caribou (R. t. osborni)
• Peary caribou (R. t. pearyi)
• porcupine caribou (R. t. granti)
• Queen Charlotte Islands caribou (†R. t. dawsoni)
• woodland caribou (R. t. caribou)

 

Translations

North American reindeer

Afrikaans: kariboe Ahtna: ghenaayi, udzih Atikamekw: atikw Bulgarian: кари́бу m (karíbu), се́верен еле́н m (séveren elén) Catalan: caribú m Chinese: Mandarin: 馴鹿／驯鹿 (zh) (xùnlù) Cree: ᐊᑎᐦᒄ (atihkw) Dena'ina: vejex Dutch: kariboe (nl) m Esperanto: boaco (eo) Finnish: karibu (fi) French: caribou (fr) m German: Karibu (de) n Greek: καναδικός τάρανδος m (kanadikós tárandos) Greenlandic: tuttu Hawaiian: kukukū Inuktitut: ᑐᒃᑐ (tokto) Inupiaq: tuttu Irish: carabú m Italian: caribù (it) m Japanese: カリブー (ja) (karibū) Lower Tanana: bedzeyh Malay: karibu Mi'kmaq: qalipu anim Montagnais: atikᵘ Ojibwe: adik Polish: karibu (pl) n or m Portuguese: caribu (pt) m Romanian: caribu n, karibu (ro) n Russian: кари́бу (ru) m (karíbu), се́верный оле́нь (ru) m (sévernyj olénʹ) Sekani: wudzįįh Slovak: karibu m Slovene: karibú m Spanish: caribú m, reno (es) m Swedish: ren (sv) c Tagalog: karibu Tanacross: wudzih Turkish: karibu

References

• caribou on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Rangifer tarandus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• boricua

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French

Etymology

Canadian French, from Mi'kmaq qalipu (“caribou”), from Proto-Algonquian *maka·lipowa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ʁi.bu/

• Audio

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Noun

caribou m (plural caribous)

1. (Canada) caribou

Descendants

• → Dutch: kariboe
• → English: caribou
• → Italian: caribù
• → Irish: carabú
• → Portuguese: caribu
• → Russian: кари́бу (karíbu)
• → Spanish: caribú
  • → Tetelcingo Nahuatl: caribú

Further reading

• “caribou”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• courbai