igloo

English

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igloo

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Inuktitut ᐃᒡᓗ (iclo, “house, building (of any kind)”), from Proto-Inuit *ǝɣlu, from Proto-Eskimo *ǝŋlu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪɡluː/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪɡluː

Noun

igloo (plural igloos)

An igloo.

1. A dome-shaped Inuit shelter, constructed of blocks cut from snow.
2. (zoology) A cavity, or excavation, made in the snow by a seal, over its breathing hole in the sea ice.
3. (military) A reinforced bunker for the storage of nuclear weapons.
   • 2011, Robert Hutchinson, Weapons of Mass Destruction:

     General James Walsh signalled Strategic Air Command that the B-47 tore apart the igloo and knocked about 3 mark sixes.

4. (logistics) A kind of airfreight cargo container.
   • 1978, Made in Mexico:

     Since most major airlines have interline agreements, if your cargo is in an igloo or container, it can be moved as is […]

Related terms

• twigloo

Translations

Inuit snow house

Arabic: مَبْنًى قَبَّانِي (mabnan qabbānī), مَبْنًى اَلقَبَّانِي (mabnan al-qabbānī) Assamese: ইগ্লো (iglü) Asturian: iglú m Bulgarian: иглу n (iglu) Catalan: iglú (ca) m Chinese: Cantonese: 冰屋 (bing1 uk1), 雪屋 (syut3 uk1) Mandarin: 冰屋 (zh) (bīngwū) Cree: ᐄᔅᒌᒣᐅᑲᒥᒄ (iisciimeokamikw) (iischiimeukamikw) Czech: iglú (cs) n Danish: iglo (da) c Dutch: iglo (nl) m Esperanto: iglo (eo) Faroese: iglo f Finnish: iglu (fi) French: igloo (fr) m, iglou (fr) m Galician: iglú m German: Iglu (de) m or n, Schneehaus n, Schneehütte f Greek: ιγκλού (el) n (igkloú) Greenlandic: illu Hebrew: איגלו (he) m (íglu) Hindi: इग्लू m (iglū), इगलू m (iglū) Hungarian: iglu (hu) Icelandic: snjóhús n Ido: igluo (io) Indonesian: iglo (id), igloo, iglu Inuktitut: iglu Irish: íoglú m Italian: iglù (it) m Japanese: イグルー (ja) (igurū) Korean: 이글루 (ko) (igeullu) Malay: iglu Marathi: इगलू m (iglū) Occitan: igló m Ojibwe: mikwamiiwigamig Pashto: ايغلو Polish: igloo (pl) n, iglu (pl) n Portuguese: iglu (pt) m Russian: и́глу (ru) n (íglu) Scottish Gaelic: taigh-sneachda m Spanish: iglú (es) m Swedish: snöhydda (sv) c, igloo (sv) c Sylheti: ꠁꠉꠟꠥ (igolu) Tagalog: iglu Tamil: இக்லூ (iklū) Thai: อิกลู (ìk-luu) Tibetan: ཁྱགས་རོམ་ཁང་པ (khyags rom khang pa) Turkish: iglo (tr), iglu (tr) Vietnamese: lều tuyết, nhà tuyết Volapük: el iglu, liglud, nifadom läskiomik, nifadom Welsh: tŷ rhew m, tŷ iâ m, iglw m Yup'ik: aniguyaq

See also

• traditional Native American dwellings:
  • hogan (used by the Navajo in the southwestern United States)
  • igloo (used by the Inuit, made of snow)
  • teepee (used in the Great Plains)
  • tupik (used by the Inuit during the summer)
  • wetu (used by the Wampanoag in the northeastern United States)
  • wickiup (used in the southwestern and western United States)
  • wigwam (used in the northeastern United States)
• quinzhee
• snow fort

Anagrams

• logoi, oglio, oligo, oligo-

French

un igloo

Alternative forms

• iglou

Etymology

From English, from Inuktitut ᐃᒡᓗ (iclo).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.ɡlu/

• Audio (Paris):

  (file)

Noun

igloo m (plural igloos)

1. igloo

Further reading

• “igloo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

igloo

Wikipedia ^pl

igloo

Alternative forms

• iglu

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English igloo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.ɡlu/, /ˈi.ɡlɔ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iɡlu, -iɡlɔ
• Syllabification: ig‧loo

Noun

igloo n (indeclinable)

1. igloo (dome-shaped Inuit shelter, constructed of blocks cut from snow)

Further reading

• igloo in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• igloo in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• igloo in PWN's encyclopedia

Swedish

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

igloo

Wikipedia ^sv

Alternative forms

• iglo

Noun

igloo c

1. an igloo (snow shelter)

Declension

Declension of igloo

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	igloo	igloos
	definite	igloon	igloons
plural	indefinite	igloor	igloors
	definite	igloorna	igloornas

References

• igloo in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• igloo in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)