caribou

Meaning

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

Synonyms

reindeer

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Greenland caribou

Rangifer tarandus

cariboo

Grant’s reindeer

raindeer

rangifer

Translations

caribou

caribú

Karibu

renne

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Rentier

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Rangifer tarandus

reno

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renna

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Ren

🦌

caribu

Caribou

καριμπού

ren

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καναδικός τάρανδος

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkæɹəbu/

Etymology

Borrowed from Canadian French caribou, from Mi'kmaq qalipu (“caribou”) (compare qalipi (“to shovel snow”)), from Proto-Algonquian *maka·lipowa (“caribou; it shovels snow”).