different between maribou vs caribou

English

Noun

maribou (plural maribous)

1. Alternative spelling of marabou
   • 1896, Parker Gillmore, Leaves from a Sportsman's Diary, page 256:

     […] were feeding not only giraffes, but several herds of the larger antelopes, among whom stalked, with measured pace, a large number of secretary birds, Kaffir and white storks, maribous, the charming crested cranes, and innumerable egrets.

   • 1987, Helen Shaw, Fly-Tying ?ISBN, page 254

     Tips of maribou feathers are used whole for the wings of streamer flies.

   • 2011, Ben West, Cameroon ?ISBN, page 231:

     Birdlife at the park is prolic – around 375 species in total – which include eagle, hornbill, black-crowned crane, maribous, pelican, duck, goose, ostrich, heron, stork and guineafowl.

English

Etymology

From Canadian French caribou, from Mi'kmaq qalipu (“caribou”) (compare qalipi (“to shovel snow”)), from Proto-Algonquian *maka·lipowa (“caribou; it shovels snow”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k???bu/
• enPR: k?r'?-b?'

Noun

caribou (plural caribous or caribou)

1. Any of several North American subspecies of the reindeer, Rangifer tarandus.

Derived terms

Translations

References

• caribou on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Rangifer tarandus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• boricua

French

Etymology

Canadian French, from Mi'kmaq qalipu (“caribou”), from Proto-Algonquian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.?i.bu/

Noun

caribou m (plural caribous)

1. caribou

Descendants

• ? English: caribou
• ? Italian: caribù
• ? Irish: carabú
• ? Russian: ?????? (karibu)
• ? Spanish: caribú
  • ? Tetelcingo Nahuatl: caribú

Further reading

• “caribou” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• courbai