totem pole

English

Noun

totem pole (plural totem poles)

1. (sculpture) Native American sculpture made by carving trees.

Hyponyms

• family pole
• memorial pole
• mortuary pole
• ridicule pole
• shame pole
• welcome pole

Derived terms

• low on the totem pole

Translations

sculpture

• Arabic: عَمُود رَمْز m (ʕamūd ramz)
• Danish: totempæl c
• Dutch: totempaal (nl) m
• Finnish: toteemipaalu (fi)
• French: mât totémique (fr) m
• German: Totempfahl m
• Hungarian: totemoszlop
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: totempåle m

  Nynorsk: totempåle m

• Romanian: stâlp totemic m
• Russian: тоте́мный столб m (totɛ́mnyj stolb)
• Spanish: tótem (es) m