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
- 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
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French
Etymology
Canadian French, from Mi'kmaq qalipu (“caribou”), from Proto-Algonquian.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.ʁi.bu/
Audio (file)
Further reading
- “caribou” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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