Carib
Meanings
noun
- A member of one of a number of Amerindian peoples who inhabit the coast of Central and South America and the Lesser Antilles.
- A member of the mainland or ‘proper’ Caribs (Kari'na), a Cariban people who inhabit the north coast of South America, in parts of Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana.
- A member of the Kalinago people of the Lesser Antilles, an Arawakan people who took heavy cultural influence from the mainland Caribs and so were formerly known as Island Caribs.
- A member of the Garifuna people of Honduras, historically known as Black Caribs, descendants of mixed Kalinago people and Africans who were deported to the Central American mainland in the 18th century.
name
- Any of the languages of these people.
- The Kari'na or Carib language proper, a Cariban language.
- The Kalinago or Island Carib language, an unrelated Arawakan language.
- The Garifuna language, an offshoot of Kalinago.
noun
- A hummingbird of the genus Eulampis.
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Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish Caribe, likely from a Kalinago term corresponding to karifuna (“Kalinago person”) in modern Kalinago, a borrowing from a Cariban language, ultimately from Proto-Cariban *karipona (“person”). Compare Kari'na karìna (“Carib person”). Doublet of cannibal, caribe, Carijona, Galibi, Garifuna, and Kari'na.
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