kabloona

See also Kabloona

English

Alternative forms

• kadloona

Etymology

From Eastern Canadian Inuktitut qallunaaq (“foreigner”) or Greenlandic kablunâk (now spelled kallunaaq), or a combination of the two.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /kəˈbluːnə/

Noun

kabloona (plural kabloonas or kabloona or kabloonat)

1. (Canada, US) A non-Inuit person in Canada or Greenland, especially a European or someone of European descent.
   • 2007, Dan Simmons, The Terror: A Novel:

     After food and pleasantries had been exchanged, the old man asked what they were doing so far from the God-Walking People's northern lands, and when one of the hunters explained that they were looking for living or dead kabloona […]