caribou

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• kăr'ĭ-bū
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• US: /ˈkæɹəbu/
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• UK: /ˈkærɪbuː/
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Borrowed from Canadian French caribou, from Mi'kmaq qalipu (“caribou”; compare qalipi, “to shovel snow”), from Proto-Algonquian *maka·lipowa (“caribou”, literally “it shovels snow”).

49 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: kariboe — North American reindeer
• Ahtna: ghenaay — North American reindeer
• Ahtna: udzih — North American reindeer
• Asturian: caribú — North American reindeer
• Bulgarian: кари́бу (karíbu) — North American reindeer
• Bulgarian: се́верен еле́н (séveren elén) — North American reindeer
• Catalan: caribú — North American reindeer
• Chinese Mandarin: 馴鹿 /驯鹿 (xùnlù) — North American reindeer
• Cree: ᐊᑎᐦᒄ (atihkw) — North American reindeer
• Atikamekw: atikw — North American reindeer
• Montagnais: atiku — North American reindeer
• Deg Xinag: ghinoy — North American reindeer
• Dena'ina: vejex — North American reindeer
• Dutch: kariboe — North American reindeer
• Esperanto: karibuo — North American reindeer
• Esperanto: boaco — North American reindeer
• Estonian: karibu — North American reindeer
• Estonian: karibuu — North American reindeer
• Finnish: karibu — North American reindeer
• French: caribou — North American reindeer
• German: Karibu — North American reindeer
• Greek: καναδικός τάρανδος (kanadikós tárandos) — North American reindeer
• Greenlandic: tuttu — North American reindeer
• Hawaiian: kukukū — North American reindeer
• Inuktitut: ᑐᒃᑐ (tokto) — North American reindeer
• Inupiaq: tuttu — North American reindeer
• Irish: carabú — North American reindeer
• Italian: caribù — North American reindeer
• Japanese: カリブー (karibū) — North American reindeer
• Lower Tanana: bedzeyh — North American reindeer
• Malay: karibu — North American reindeer
• Mi'kmaq: qalipu — North American reindeer
• Ojibwe: adik — North American reindeer
• Polish: karibu — North American reindeer
• Portuguese: caribu — North American reindeer
• Romanian: caribu — North American reindeer
• Romanian: karibu — North American reindeer
• Russian: кари́бу (karíbu) — North American reindeer
• Russian: се́верный оле́нь (sévernyj olénʹ) — North American reindeer
• Sekani: wudzįįh — North American reindeer
• Slovak: karibu — North American reindeer
• Slovene: karibú — North American reindeer
• Spanish: caribú — North American reindeer
• Spanish: reno — North American reindeer
• Swedish: ren — North American reindeer
• Tagalog: karibu — North American reindeer
• Tanacross: wudzih — North American reindeer
• Turkish: karibu — North American reindeer
• Ukrainian: кари́бу (karýbu) — North American reindeer