kabloona

See also: Kabloona

English

Alternative forms

• 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.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəˈbluːnə/

Noun

kabloona (plural kabloonas or kabloona or kabloonat)

1. (Canada, US) A non-Inuit person in Canada or Greenland, especially a European or someone of European descent.
   • 2007, Dan Simmons, The Terror: A Novel:

     After food and pleasantries had been exchanged, the old man asked what they were doing so far from the God-Walking People's northern lands, and when one of the hunters explained that they were looking for living or dead kabloona […]

Translations

non-Inuit person

• German: Kabloona