kabloona

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UK/kəˈbluːnə/

noun

A non-Inuit person in Canada or Greenland, especially a European or someone of European descent.

OriginEastern Canadian Inuktitut ᖃᓪᓗᓈᖅ ← Greenlandic kablunâk →
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Meanings

nounkabloona (plural kabloonas or kabloona or kabloonat)

plural kabloonas · plural kabloonat · alternative kabluna · alternative kadloona

  1. CanadaUSA non-Inuit person in Canada or Greenland, especially a European or someone of European descent.

    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 […]

    2007, Dan Simmons, The Terror: A Novel

Origin

  1. Greenlandickablunâk“white person, Dane”
  2. Eastern Canadian Inuktitutᖃᓪᓗᓈᖅ“foreigner”
  3. Englishkabloona

Borrowed from Eastern Canadian Inuktitut ᖃᓪᓗᓈᖅ (qallunaaq, “foreigner”) or Greenlandic kablunâk (“white person, Dane”) (now spelled qallunaaq), or a combination of the two.

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Translations

German Kabloona
  • Kabloonanon-Inuit person

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

Boklaoan
Cite this entry
APA

kabloona. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/kabloona

MLA

“kabloona.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/kabloona. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “kabloona,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/kabloona.

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