caribou

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

 

• enPR: kăr'ĭ-bū
  • (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkæɹəbu/
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkærɪbuː/

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caribou (plural caribous or caribou)

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

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

• boricua

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

• IPA^(key): /ka.ʁi.bu/

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caribou m (plural caribous)

1. (Canada) caribou

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

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

• courbai