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kabloona

UK/kəˈbluːnə/

kabloona noun: a non-Inuit person in Canada or Greenland, especially a European or someone of European descent.

Noun

kabloona (plural kabloonas or kabloona or kabloonat)

  1. (Canada, US) A non-Inuit person in Canada or Greenland, especially a European or someone of European descent.
    • After food and pleasantries had been exchanged, the old man asked what they were doing so far from the God-Walking People's northern lands, and when one of the hunters explained that they were looking for living or dead kabloona […]2007, Dan Simmons, The Terror: A Novel

Forms of kabloona

pluralkabloonas
pluralkabloona
pluralkabloonat
alternative formkabluna
alternative formkadloona

Origin of kabloona

Borrowed from Eastern Canadian Inuktitut ᖃᓪᓗᓈᖅ (qallunaaq, “foreigner”) or Greenlandic kablunâk (“white person, Dane”) (now spelled qallunaaq), or a combination of the two.

Questions about kabloona

What does kabloona mean?
Kabloona means a non-Inuit person in Canada or Greenland, especially a European or someone of European descent.
What part of speech is kabloona?
Kabloona is a noun.
How do you pronounce kabloona?
Kabloona is pronounced /kəˈbluːnə/ (UK).
What is the plural of kabloona?
The plural of kabloona is kabloonas.

Words near kabloona in the dictionary

  1. Kabiye
  2. kablam
  3. kablammo
  4. kablooey
  5. kablooie
  6. kabloona
  7. kabloonas
  8. kabloonat
  9. kabluna
  10. kablunas
  11. kabney

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