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Caribou.

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”).

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

caribou (plural caribous or **caribou)

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

• barren-ground caribou (R. t. groenlandicus)
• boreal woodland caribou (R. t. caribou)
• Caribou County
• caribouskin
• carideer
• Dawson's caribou (†R. t. dawsoni)
• East Greenland caribou (†R. t. eogroenlandicus)
• forest caribou
• Grant's caribou (R. t. granti)
• Labrador caribou (R. t. caboti)
• Newfoundland caribou (R. t. terraenovae)
• Osborn's caribou (R. t. osborni)
• Peary caribou (R. t. pearyi)
• porcupine caribou (R. t. granti)
• Queen Charlotte Islands caribou (†R. t. dawsoni)
• woodland caribou (R. t. caribou)

North American reindeer

• Afrikaans: kariboe

• Ahtna: ghenaay, udzih

• Asturian: caribú (ast) m

• Bulgarian: кари́бу m (karíbu), се́верен еле́н m (séveren elén)

• Catalan: caribú m

• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 馴鹿 / 驯鹿 (zh) (xùnlù)

• Cree: ᐊᑎᐦᒄ (atihkw)
  Atikamekw: atikw
  Montagnais: atikᵘ

• Dena'ina: vejex

• Dutch: kariboe (nl) m

• Esperanto: karibuo, boaco (eo)

• Estonian: karibu, karibuu

• Finnish: karibu (fi)

• French: caribou (fr) m

• German: Karibu (de) n

• Greek: καναδικός τάρανδος m (kanadikós tárandos)

• Greenlandic: tuttu

• Hawaiian: kukukū

• Inuktitut: ᑐᒃᑐ (tokto)

• Inupiaq: tuttu

• Irish: carabú m

• Italian: caribù (it) m

• Japanese: カリブー (ja) (karibū)

• Malay: karibu

• Mi'kmaq: qalipu anim

• Ojibwe: adik

• Polish: karibu (pl) n or m

• Portuguese: caribu (pt) m

• Romanian: caribu n, karibu (ro) n

• Russian: кари́бу (ru) m (karíbu), се́верный оле́нь (ru) m (sévernyj olénʹ)

• Sekani: wudzįįh

• Slovak: karibu m

• Slovene: karibú m

• Spanish: caribú (es) m, reno (es) m

• Swedish: ren (sv) c

• Tagalog: karibu

• Tanacross: wudzih

• Tanana:
  Lower Tanana: bedzeyh

• Turkish: karibu

• Ukrainian: кари́бу m (karýbu)

• boricua

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

• IPA(key): /ka.ʁi.bu/
• Rhymes: -u
• Hyphenation: ca‧ri‧bou

caribou m (plural caribous)

1. (Canada) caribou

• → Dutch: kariboe
• → English: caribou
• → Italian: caribù
• → Welsh: caribŵ
• → 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
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