Etymology

nanook

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Today it means: A polar bear. Full definition →

Inuktitut ᓇᓄᖅ
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  1. Inuktitut · borrowed fromᓇᓄᖅ“polar bear”
  2. English todaynanook

Borrowed from Inuktitut ᓇᓄᖅ (nanoq, “polar bear”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.