igloo

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Eskimo *əŋlu

Proto-Inuit *əɣlu

Inuktitut ᐃᒡᓗ (iclo)bor.

English igloo

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪɡ.luː/

• Audio (Southern England):

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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 […]

Derived terms

• dogloo
• iglooless
• igloolike
• pigloo
• twigloo

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:

  Plains Cree: kônikamik

• 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: illuigaq, 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 (post-1990 spelling)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Eskimo *əŋlu

Proto-Inuit *əɣlu

Inuktitut ᐃᒡᓗ (iclo)bor.

English igloo

French igloo

From English, from Inuktitut ᐃᒡᓗ (iclo), appears in 1880 with the form iglou.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.ɡlu/

• Audio (Paris):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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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

igloo

Alternative forms

• iglu

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Eskimo *əŋlu

Proto-Inuit *əɣlu

Inuktitut ᐃᒡᓗ (iclo)bor.

English iglooubor.

Polish igloo

Unadapted borrowing from English igloo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.ɡlu/, /ˈi.ɡlɔ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -iɡlu, -iɡlɔ
• Syllabification: i‧gloo

Noun

igloo n (indeclinable)

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

Further reading

• “igloo”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “igloo”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)
• igloo in PWN's encyclopedia

Swedish

en igloo

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 [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “igloo”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)