Qaanaaq

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

Qaanaaq

Etymology

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

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