Yurok

See also: yurok

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Karok [Term?] (“downriver [people]”), as they live on the Klamath River downstream of the Karuk, whose name means "upriver [people]".

Noun

Yurok (plural Yuroks or Yurok)

1. A member of a particular Native American tribe of Northern California.

Translations

person

• Arabic: يوروك
• Finnish: yurok (fi)
• French: yurok (fr) m or f
• German: Yurok (de) n
• Japanese: ユロク人 (yuroku-hito), ユロック人 (yurokku-hito)
• Karok: yurúkvaarar, yuh'ára (also used for Tolowa)
• West Frisian: Joerok n
• Yurok: olekwo'l

Proper noun

Yurok

1. The Algic language of these people.

Translations

language

• Finnish: yurok (fi)
• French: yurok (fr) m
• Irish: Iúróicis f
• Japanese: ユロク語 (yuroku-go), ユロック語 (yurokku-go)
• Karok: yúhih
• Yurok: pueleekla’

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Yurok terms

Further reading

• Ethnologue entry for Yurok, yur ⁠

Anagrams

• Yurko, Koury, Yörük