caribou

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: kăr'ə-bū'

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Noun

caribou (plural caribous or caribou)

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

Derived terms

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

 

Translations

North American reindeer

• Ahtna: ghenaayi
• Bulgarian: кари́бу m (karíbu), се́верен еле́н m (séveren elén)
• Catalan: caribú m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 馴鹿 (zh), 驯鹿 (zh) (xùnlù)

• Dutch: kariboe (nl) m
• Esperanto: boaco
• Finnish: karibu (fi)
• French: caribou (fr) m
• German: Karibu n
• Greek: καναδικός τάρανδος m (kanadikós tárandos)
• Hawaiian: kukukū
• Inuktitut: ᑐᒃᑐ (tuktu)
• Irish: carabú m
• Italian: caribù (it) m

• Japanese: カリブー (ja) (karibū)
• Malay: karibu
• Mi'kmaq: qalipu anim
• Montagnais: atikᵘ
• Navajo: hakʼaz bįįh
• Polish: karibu (pl) m
• Portuguese: caribu (pt) m
• Romanian: caribu n, karibu (ro) n
• Russian: кари́бу (ru) m (karíbu), се́верный оле́нь (ru) m (sévernyj olénʹ)
• Slovak: karibu m
• Slovene: karibú m
• Spanish: caribú m, reno (es) m
• Swedish: ren (sv) c
• Tagalog: karibu

Anagrams

• boricua

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French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ʁi.bu/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

caribou m (plural caribous)

1. caribou

Descendants

• → English: caribou
• → Italian: caribù
• → Russian: карибу (karibu)
• → Spanish: caribú

Further reading

• “caribou” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• courbai