adj
Meaning 1
Of or pertaining to this people, culture or language.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
Ojibwe
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /əˈdʒɪbweɪ/
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US: /oʊˈdʒɪbweɪ/
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name
Meaning 2
The language spoken by the native Algonquin people of central Canada, one of a closely related group of languages and dialects of the Algonquian branch of the Algic language family.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Chippewa, Ojibwemowin
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: Anishinaabemowin
noun
Meaning 3
A member of a native Algonquin people of central Canada.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
First attested in English around 1700 (and attested in early French as Outchibouec), from the Ojibwe name of an individual band of Ojibwe, of unclear origin. The most widely accepted theory connects it to Ojibwe ojibwaakide (“it shrivels, it puckers in the fire”), in reference to the puckering or tightening of moccasins at their seams or near fire. Alternatively, Helen Tanner and Edmund Danzinger connect it to the Ojibwe practice of writing on birch bark or making pictographs, respectively; compare ozhibii' (“write (someone's name) down”). Other, less credible theories: Other, less likely suggestions include: Henry Schoolcraft derived it from a word *bwe "pertaining to voice" ((compare bedowe (“have a soft voice”)), and like George Belcourt, believed it referred to a peculiarity of the tribe's (language's) pronunciation. Some other works connect it to the word for puckering the lips, which however is bajiishkidooneni (“she or he puckers the lips”), or assert that it refers to roasting captives until their flesh puckered, but this was not a common practice and is improbable as a self-designation.
Across languages
Translations
73 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Breton: ojibweg — Ojibwe language
- Catalan: chippewa — Ojibwe language
- Cree: ᓇᐦᑲᐍᐏᐣ (nahkawewin) — Ojibwe language
- Dutch: Ojibwe — Ojibwe language
- Dutch: Ojibwa — Ojibwe language
- Esperanto: Aniŝinabeka lingvo — Ojibwe language
- Finnish: odžibwa — Ojibwe language
- Finnish: odzhibwa — Ojibwe language
- Finnish: ojibwa — Ojibwe language
- French: ojibwé — Ojibwe language
- Galician: lingua ojibwa — Ojibwe language
- German: Ojibwe — Ojibwe language
- Japanese: オジブウェー語 (Ojibuwē-go) — Ojibwe language
- Japanese: アニシナーベ語 (Anishinābe-go) — Ojibwe language
- Lithuanian: anišinabų kalba — Ojibwe language
- Marathi: ओजिबवे (ojibve) — Ojibwe language
- Menominee: ocīpīweqnaesewen — Ojibwe language
- Navajo: Anishinaabe bizaad — Ojibwe language
- Ojibwe: ojibwemowin — Ojibwe language
- Ojibwe: anishinaabemowin — Ojibwe language
- Ojibwe: ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᒧᐎᓐ — Ojibwe language
- Ottawa: nishnaabemwin — Ojibwe language
- Polish: język odżibwe — Ojibwe language
- Portuguese: ojibwa — Ojibwe language
- Portuguese: ojibwe — Ojibwe language
- Potawatomi: neshnabémwen — Ojibwe language
- Quechua: anishinapay simi — Ojibwe language
- Russian: оджи́бва (odžíbva) — Ojibwe language
- Russian: оджи́бве (odžíbvɛ) — Ojibwe language
- Spanish: ojibwa — Ojibwe language
- Swedish: ojibwe — Ojibwe language
- Thai: ภาษาโอจิบเว (paasăa ohjìpway) — Ojibwe language
- Turkish: Ojibvaca — Ojibwe language
- Turkish: Ojibva dili — Ojibwe language
- Catalan: chippewa — member of Ojibwe people
- Catalan: ojibwa — member of Ojibwe people
- Cree: ᓇᐦᑲᐏᔨᓂᐤ (nahkawiyiniw) — member of Ojibwe people
- Dutch: Ojibwa — member of Ojibwe people
- Dutch: Ojibway — member of Ojibwe people
- Esperanto: Oĝibvoj — member of Ojibwe people
- Finnish: odžibwa — member of Ojibwe people
- Finnish: odzhibwa — member of Ojibwe people
- Finnish: ojibwa — member of Ojibwe people
- French: ojibwé — member of Ojibwe people
- French: ojibwée — member of Ojibwe people
- French: ojibwés — member of Ojibwe people
- French: ojibwées — member of Ojibwe people
- German: Anishinabe — member of Ojibwe people
- Italian: ojibway — member of Ojibwe people
- Japanese: オジブワ族 (Ojibuwa-zoku) — member of Ojibwe people
- Lithuanian: odžibviai — member of Ojibwe people
- Marathi: ओजिबवे (ojibve) — member of Ojibwe people
- Menominee: ocīpīw — member of Ojibwe people
- Ojibwa: ojibwe — member of Ojibwe people
- Ojibwa: anishinaabe — member of Ojibwe people
- Ottawa: Nishnaabe — member of Ojibwe people
- Ottawa: Nishnaabeg — member of Ojibwe people
- Ottawa: Jibwe — member of Ojibwe people
- Ottawa: Jibweg — member of Ojibwe people
- Polish: Odżibwej — member of Ojibwe people
- Polish: Odżibwejka — member of Ojibwe people
- Polish: Czipewej — member of Ojibwe people
- Polish: Czipewejka — member of Ojibwe people
- Portuguese: ojibwa — member of Ojibwe people
- Russian: оджи́бва (odžíbva) — member of Ojibwe people
- Russian: оджи́бве (odžíbve) — member of Ojibwe people
- Serbo-Croatian: chippewa — member of Ojibwe people
- Spanish: ojibwa — member of Ojibwe people
- Swedish: ojibwa — member of Ojibwe people
- Turkish: Ojibva — member of Ojibwe people
- Turkish: Anişinaabe — member of Ojibwe people
- Turkish: Çippeva — member of Ojibwe people
- Unami: Chipuwe — member of Ojibwe people