caribou

English

Etymology

From Canadian French caribou, from Mi'kmaq qalipu (“snow-shoveller”), from qalipi (“to shovel snow”), from Proto-Algonquian.

Pronunciation

• enPR: kăr'ə-bū'

Noun

Wikipedia caribou (plural caribous or caribou)

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

Derived terms

• barren-ground caribou
• Dawson caribou
• forest caribou
• Grant's caribou
• Peary caribou
• Queen Charlotte Islands caribou
• woodland caribou

Translations

Reindeer

• Ahtna: ghenaayi
• Bulgarian: карибу (bg) (karibu), северен елен (bg) (severen elen)
• Esperanto: boaco (eo)
• Finnish: karibu (fi)
• French: caribou (fr) m
• Greek: καναδικός τάρανδος (el) (kanadikós tárandos) m
• Irish: carabú (ga) m
• Italian: caribù (it) m
• Malay: karibu (ms)

• Montagnais: atikᵘ
• Navajo: hakʼaz bįįh
• Polish: karibu (pl) m
• Romanian: caribu (ro) n, karibu (ro) n
• Russian: северный олень (ru) (sévernyj olén’) m
• Spanish: caribú (es) m, reno (es) m
• Swedish: ren (sv) c

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French

Etymology

Canadian French, from Mi'kmaq qalipu (“snow-shoveller”), from qalipi (“to shovel snow”), from Proto-Algonquian.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ka.ʁi.bu/

Noun

caribou m (plural caribous)

1. caribou

Descendants

• English: caribou
• Italian: caribù
• Spanish: caribú

Anagrams

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