caribou

See also: Caribou

English

Etymology

Borrowed 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'ĭ-bū
- (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkæɹəbu/
- (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkærɪbuː/
Audio (US): (file)

Noun

caribou (plural caribous or caribou)

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

Derived terms

Translations

North American reindeer

Afrikaans: kariboe
Ahtna: ghenaayi, udzih
Asturian: caribú (ast) m
Atikamekw: atikw
Bulgarian: кари́бу m (karíbu), се́верен еле́н m (séveren elén)
Catalan: caribú m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 馴鹿 / 驯鹿 (zh) (xùnlù)
Cree: ᐊᑎᐦᒄ (atihkw)
Dena'ina: vejex
Dutch: kariboe (nl) m
Esperanto: karibuo, boaco (eo)
Estonian: karibu, karibuu
Finnish: karibu (fi)
French: caribou (fr) m
German: Karibu (de) n
Greek: καναδικός τάρανδος m (kanadikós tárandos)
Greenlandic: tuttu
Hawaiian: kukukū
Inuktitut: ᑐᒃᑐ (tokto)
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
Ojibwe: adik
Polish: karibu (pl) n or 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
Turkish: karibu
Ukrainian: кари́бу m (karýbu)

References

caribou on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Rangifer tarandus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

boricua

French

Etymology

From Mi'kmaq qalipu (“caribou”), from Proto-Algonquian *maka·lipowa.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ka.ʁi.bu/
Audio: (file)

Noun

caribou m (plural caribous)

(Canada) caribou

Descendants

→ Dutch: kariboe
→ English: caribou
→ Italian: caribù
→ Welsh: caribŵ
→ Irish: carabú
→ Portuguese: caribu
→ Russian: кари́бу (karíbu)
→ Spanish: caribú
- → Tetelcingo Nahuatl: caribú

Further reading

“caribou”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

courbai