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)

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

Derived terms

Terms derived from caribou

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)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 馴鹿 (zh), 驯鹿 (zh) (xùnlù)
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 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

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ka.ʁi.bu/

Noun

caribou m (plural caribous)

caribou

Descendants

→ English: caribou
→ Italian: caribù
→ Spanish: caribú

Further reading

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

Anagrams

courbai

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