kabloona
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Kabloona
A non-Inuit person in Canada or Greenland, especially a European or someone of…A non-Inuit person in Canada or Greenland, especially a European or someone of European descent.
/kəˈbluːnə/
Meaning
1 senses(Canada, US)A non-Inuit person in Canada or Greenland, especially a European or someone of European descent.
Kabloona
Translations
1 languagesDeutsch
By meaning 1
non-Inuit person:
Origin
Borrowed from Eastern Canadian Inuktitut ᖃᓪᓗᓈᖅ (qallunaaq, “foreigner”) or Greenlandic kabBorrowed from Eastern Canadian Inuktitut ᖃᓪᓗᓈᖅ (qallunaaq, “foreigner”) or Greenlandic kablunâk (“white person, Dane”) (now spelled qallunaaq), or a combination of the two.
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Forms
plural: kabloonas / kabloona / kabloonatLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Plural nouns — Because its plural is irregular
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.