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Qaanaaq

Qaanaaq proper noun: a town in northwestern Greenland near the Thule Air Base.

Proper noun

Qaanaaq

  1. A town in northwestern Greenland near the Thule Air Base.

Origin of Qaanaaq

From Greenlandic, related to qaaneq (“space underneath the sleeping platform”) and originally meaning “hollowed out by wind or ice erosion.”

Questions about Qaanaaq

What does Qaanaaq mean?
Qaanaaq means a town in northwestern Greenland near the Thule Air Base.
What part of speech is Qaanaaq?
Qaanaaq is a proper noun.

Words near Qaanaaq in the dictionary

  1. QA
  2. QA/QC
  3. QAA
  4. qaaf
  5. qaafs
  6. Qaanaaq
  7. qabab
  8. qababs
  9. Qabah
  10. qabala
  11. qabalah

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