English Explanatory Dictionary

kabloona

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Pronunciation

/kəˈbluːnə/

Word forms

kabloona kabloonas kabloonat kabluna kadloona

Etymology

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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