Carib

Borrowed from Spanish Caribe, likely from a Kalinago term corresponding to karifuna (“Kalinago person”) in modern Kalinago, a borrowing from a Cariban language, ultimately from Proto-Cariban *karipona (“person”). Compare Kari'na karìna (“Carib person”). Doublet of cannibal, caribe, Garifuna, Carijona, and Kari'na.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkæɹɪb/
  • Rhymes: -æɹɪb
• (General American) enPR: kărʹĭb
  • (without the Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA^(key): /ˈkæɹɪb/
    • Rhymes: -æɹɪb
  • (Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA^(key): /ˈkɛɹɪb/, /ˈkeɹɪb/

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Carib (plural Caribs or Carib)

1. A member of one of a number of Amerindian peoples who inhabit the coast of Central and South America and the Lesser Antilles.
   • 1903–1906, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Dougherty’s Eye-opener”, in The Voice of the City, complete edition, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Company, published 1908, →OCLC, pages 32–33:

     Mr. Dougherty had intended to make the outing with his unwonted wife an inconspicuous one. Uxoriousness was a weakness that the precepts of the Caribs did not countenance.

   1. A member of the mainland or ‘proper’ Caribs (Kari'na), a Cariban people who inhabit the north coast of South America, in parts of Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana.
      • 2009 January 8, Thomas Streissguth, Suriname in Pictures, →ISBN, page 20:

        Another people, the Surinen, lived near the coast. Like the Arawaks and the Caribs, they had migrated northward into Suriname. The Arawak and Carib peoples greatly outnumbered the Surinen. The Surinen were disappearing by the late 1400s.

   2. A member of the Kalinago people of the Lesser Antilles, an Arawakan people who took heavy cultural influence from the mainland Caribs and so were formerly known as Island Caribs.
   3. A member of the Garifuna people of Honduras, historically known as Black Caribs, descendants of mixed Kalinago people and Africans who were deported to the Central American mainland in the 18th century.

• Note: These are translations for the plural.

Carib

1. Any of the languages of these people.
   1. The Kari'na or Carib language proper, a Cariban language.
   2. The Kalinago or Island Carib language, an unrelated Arawakan language.
   3. The Garifuna language, an offshoot of Kalinago.

• Cabri, baric, biarc, cabri, rabic

From carib.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kəˈɾip]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kaˈɾip]

el Carib m

1. Caribbean (a continental region centered on the Caribbean Sea, consisting of those countries located in the sea and in bordering areas of South America and Central America)

• caribeny
• mar Carib