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kabloona

/kəˈbluːnə/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
kabloona
IPA
/kəˈbluːnə/
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Canadian usage; American usage

Example Sentences

Etymology

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

Word Breakdown

Regional Pronunciation

  • British English: /kəˈbluːnə/

Usage

Inflected Forms

kabloonas (plural) kabloonat (plural) kabluna (alternative) kadloona (alternative)

Questions

How do you pronounce kabloona?
The recorded pronunciation is /kəˈbluːnə/.
What does kabloona mean?
A non-Inuit person in Canada or Greenland, especially a European or someone of European descent.
Where does kabloona come from?
Borrowed 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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