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Carib
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cärib Carib.
English
Etymology
en es Caribe, likely from a en crb - term corresponding to crb karifuna Kalinago person in modern Kalinago, a borrowing from a en sai-car language, ultimately from en sai-car-pro *karipona person. Compare car karìna Carib person. en cannibal caribe Carijona Galibi Garifuna Kari'na.
Pronunciation
en /ˈkæɹɪb/ RP
en æɹɪb 2
kărʹĭb GA
en /ˈkæɹɪb/ nMmmm
en æɹɪb 2
en /ˈkɛɹɪb/ /ˈkeɹɪb/ Mmmm
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Carib.wav US
Noun
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A member of one of a number of Amerindian peoples who inhabit the coast of Central and South America and the Lesser Antilles.
32–33 33 Mr. Dougherty had intended to make the outing with his unwonted wife an inconspicuous one. Uxoriousness was a weakness that the precepts of the Caribs did not countenance.
A member of the mainland or ‘proper’ Kalina people Caribs (Kari'na), a Cariban people who inhabit the north coast of South America, in parts of Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana.
en 2009-01-08 Thomas Streissguth Suriname in Pictures https://books.google.com/books?id=hldOMJHlGQwC&pg=PA20 9781575059648 20 Another people, the Surinen, lived near the coast. Like the Arawaks and the Caribs, they had migrated northward into Suriname. The Arawak and Carib peoples greatly outnumbered the Surinen. The Surinen were disappearing by the late 1400s.
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.
Derived terms
en Island Carib Caribbean
Translations
Note: These are translations for the plural.
people
Catalan: ca caribs m-p
Hungarian: hu karib
Irish: ga Cairibigh
Kazakh: kk кариб
Marathi: mr कॅरिब, mr कारिब
Portuguese: pt caribe caribes m f, pt caraíba caraíbas m f
Russian: ru карибы
Proper noun
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.
Derived terms
en Galibi Carib Cariban
Translations
language
Breton: br karibeg m
Catalan: ca carib m
Irish: ga Cairibis f
Kari'na: car karìna auran
Marathi: mr कॅरिब f
Anagrams
en abcir Cabri baric biarc cabri rabic
Catalan
Etymology
From ca carib.
Pronunciation
ca LL-Q7026 (cat)-Marvives-Carib.wav Barcelona
Proper noun
m el Carib
ca Caribbean Q664609
Related terms
ca caribeny
ca mar Carib