caribou

See also: 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”).

Caribou.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɛɹəbu/
• enPR: kăr'ə-bū'

• Audio (US)

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Noun

caribou (plural caribous or caribou)

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

Derived terms

• barren-ground caribou (R. t. groenlandicus)
• boreal woodland caribou (R. t. caribou)
• Caribou County
• Dawson's caribou (†R. t. dawsoni)
• East Greenland caribou (†R. t. eogroenlandicus)
• forest caribou
• Grant's caribou (R. t. granti)
• Labrador caribou (R. t. caboti)
• Newfoundland caribou (R. t. terraenovae)
• Osborn's caribou (R. t. osborni)
• Peary caribou (R. t. pearyi)
• porcupine caribou (R. t. granti)
• Queen Charlotte Islands caribou (†R. t. dawsoni)
• woodland caribou (R. t. caribou)

 

Translations

North American reindeer

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

  Mandarin: 馴鹿 (zh), 驯鹿 (zh) (xùnlù)

• Cree: ᐊᑎᐦᒄ (atihkw)
• Dena'ina: vejex
• Dutch: kariboe (nl) m
• Esperanto: boaco
• Finnish: karibu (fi)
• French: caribou (fr) m
• German: Karibu n
• Greek: καναδικός τάρανδος m (kanadikós tárandos)
• Greenlandic: tuttu
• Hawaiian: kukukū
• Inuktitut: ᑐᒃᑐ (tuktu)
• Inupiaq: tuttu
• Irish: carabú m

• Italian: caribù (it) m
• Japanese: カリブー (ja) (karibū)
• Lower Tanana: bedzeyh
• Malay: karibu
• Mi'kmaq: qalipu anim
• Montagnais: atikᵘ
• Navajo: hakʼaz bįįh
• Ojibwe: adik
• 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)
• Sekani: wudzįįh
• Slovak: karibu m
• Slovene: karibú m
• Spanish: caribú m, reno (es) m
• Swedish: ren (sv) c
• Tagalog: karibu
• Tanacross: wudzih

References

• caribou on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Rangifer tarandus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

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
• → Irish: carabú
• → Russian: карибу (karibu)
• → Spanish: caribú
  • → Tetelcingo Nahuatl: caribú

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• courbai