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Caribou

Car′i-bou

(kăr′ĭ-boō)

,

Noun.

[Canadian French.]

(Zool.)

The American reindeer, especially the common or woodland species (

Rangifer Caribou

).

Barren Ground caribou

.

See under

.

–

Woodland caribou

,

the common reindeer (

Rangifer Caribou

) of the northern forests of America.

Definition 2024

caribou

caribou

English

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
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
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 m ‎(sévernyj olénʹ)
Slovak: karibu m
Slovene: karibú m
Spanish: caribú m, reno (es) m
Swedish: ren (sv) c
Tagalog: karibu

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

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