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Karuk

Karuk noun: a member of an indigenous people of California who reside along the Klamath River.

Noun

Karuk (plural Karuks or Karuk)

  1. A member of an indigenous people of California who reside along the Klamath River.

Proper noun

Karuk

  1. The language spoken by this tribe, which is either a language isolate or perhaps Hokan.

Forms of Karuk

pluralKaruks
pluralKaruk
alternative formKarok

Origin of Karuk

Borrowed from Karok káruk (“upstream, upriver (people)”), because they live upstream on the Klamath River while the Yurok live downstream.

Questions about Karuk

What does Karuk mean?
Karuk means a member of an indigenous people of California who reside along the Klamath River.
What part of speech is Karuk?
Karuk can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of Karuk?
The plural of Karuk is Karuks.

Words near Karuk in the dictionary

  1. Kartvels
  2. Karu
  3. Karuah
  4. Karub
  5. karuhiruhi
  6. Karuk
  7. karuka
  8. karukas
  9. Karuks
  10. Karun
  11. karuna

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Karuk (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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