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English

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Wikispecies has information on:Rangifer tarandus

Etymology

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From Middle English reyndere, reynder, rayne-dere, from Old Norse hreindýri (“reindeer”), from hreinn (“reindeer”) + dýr (“animal”). Compare Dutch rendier (“reindeer”), German Rentier (“reindeer”), Swedish rendjur (“reindeer”), Danish rensdyr (“reindeer”) and French renne (“reindeer”). Related also to displaced Old English hrān (“reindeer”). Unrelated to rein.

Pronunciation

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(Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɹeɪndɪə/
(General American) IPA(key): /ˈɹeɪndɪɹ/
Audio (General American): (file)
Rhymes: -eɪndɪə(ɹ)
Hyphenation: rein‧deer

Noun

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reindeer (plural reindeer or reindeers)

(plural: reindeer) Any Arctic and subarctic-dwelling deer of the species Rangifer tarandus, with a number of subspecies. Santa Claus' sleigh is supposedly pulled by eight reindeer
- 1768, D[aniel] Fenning, “LAPLAND”, in The Royal English Dictionary; or, A Treasury of the English Language, 3rd improved edition, London: Printed for R. Baldwin, Hawes and Co., T. Caslon, S. Crowder, J. Johnson, Wilson and Fell, Robinson and Roberts, and B. Collins, →OCLC:Here is a prodigious number of wild beaſts, as ſtags, bears, wolves, foxes of various colours, martens, hares, glittens, beavers, otters, elk, and rein deer: the latter is leſs than a stag.
- 1832, Charles Lyell, chapter VI, in Principles of Geology: Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface, by Reference to Causes Now in Operation, volume II, London: John Murray, →OCLC, page 94:The rein-deer, which in Scandinavia can scarcely exist to the south of the sixty-fifth parallel, descends, in consequence of the greater coldness of the climate, to the fiftieth degree, in Chinese Tartary, and often roves into a country of more southern latitude than any part of England.
- 1958 December, M. D. Greville and H. A. Vallance, “Sweden's Inland Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 829:Herds of wandering reindeer are frequently seen, and may even hold up the train while they cross the unfenced line to reach their feeding grounds.
- 2013 March, Nancy Langston, “Mining the Boreal North”, in American Scientist‎[1], volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 13 April 2016, page 98:Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages.
(plural: reindeers, biology) Any species, subspecies, ecotype, or other scientific grouping of such animals.

Hyponyms

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caribou

Santa Claus's reindeer

Blitzen
Comet
Cupid
Dancer
Dasher
Donner
Prancer
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Vixen

Derived terms

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Arctic reindeer (†R. t. eogroenlandicus)
busk reindeer (R. t. buskensis)
carideer
Finnish forest reindeer (R. t. fennicus)
Kamchatkan reindeer (R. t. phylarchus)
mountain reindeer (R. t. tarandus)
Novaya Zemlya reindeer (R. t. pearsoni)
reindeer calf
reindeer corn
reindeer games
Reindeer Lake
reindeer lichen (Cladonia spp.)
reindeer moss (Cladonia spp.)
reindeer spitz
Siberian forest reindeer (R. t. valentinae)
Siberian tundra reindeer (R. t. sibiricus)
Svalbard reindeer (R. t. platyrhynchus)
wild reindeer (R. t. tarandus)

Translations

[edit] Rangifer tarandus

Ahtna: udzih
Ainu: トゥナッカィ (tunakkay)
Albanian: renë (sq) f
Aleut: itx̂aygix̂
Alutor: ӄураӈа (quraŋa)
Arabic: رَنَة f (rana)
Armenian: հյուսիսային եղջերու (hy) (hyusisayin eġǰeru)
Asturian: renu (ast) m
Atikamekw: atikw
Azerbaijani: şimal maralı
Basque: elur-orein
Belarusian: паўно́чны але́нь m (pawnóčny aljénʹ)
Breton: karv-erc'h (br) m, kirvi-erc'h (br) pl
Bulgarian: се́верен еле́н m (séveren elén), кари́бу m (karíbu) (North America)
Catalan: ren (ca) m
Cherokee: ᏧᏴᏢ ᎠᏫ (tsuyvtlv awi)
Chinese: Mandarin: 馴鹿 / 驯鹿 (zh) (xùnlù)
Chukchi: ӄораӈы (qoraṇy)
Cree: ᐊᑎᐦᒄ (atihkw)
Czech: sob (cs) m
Danish: ren (da) c, rensdyr (da) n
Dutch: rendier (nl) n
Erzya: пучо (pučo)
Esperanto: boaco (eo), rangifero (eo), norda cervo
Estonian: põhjapõder (et) (in general), poro (et) (in Eurasia), karibu (in North America)
Even: ора̇н (orȧn), ора̇н (orȧn)
Evenki: орон (oron), орон (oron)
Faroese: reindýr n, reindjór n, reinsdjór n
Finnish: peura (fi) (species Rangifer tarandus), poro (fi) (semi-domesticated), karibu (fi) (North American subspecies)
French: renne (fr) m, caribou (fr) m (North America)
Galician: reno (gl) m
Georgian: ჩრდილოეთის ირემი (črdiloetis iremi)
German: Ren (de) n, Rentier (de) n
Greek: τάρανδος (el) m (tárandos) Ancient: τάρανδος m (tárandos)
Greenlandic: tuttu
Hindi: रेनडियर (renḍiyar)
Hungarian: rénszarvas (hu)
Icelandic: hreindýr (is) n
Ido: rentiro (io), karibuo (io) (North America)
Indonesian: (please verify) rusa kutub
Ingrian: pohjan oleni
Interlingua: ren (ia)
Inuktitut: ᑐᒃᑐ (tokto)
Inupiaq: tuttu
Irish: réinfhia m
Italian: renna (it) f
Itelmen: ӄора (qora)
Japanese: トナカイ (ja) (tonakai), 馴鹿 (ja) (となかい, tonakai), 馴鹿 (ja) (じゅんろく, junroku) (rare)
Javanese: kidang kutub
Karelian: petra
Kazakh: солтүстік бұғы (soltüstık būğy)
Ket: сель (selʹ)
Korean: 순록 (ko) (sullok)
Latin: tarandrus (la) m, tarandus m
Latvian: ziemeļbriedis m
Lithuanian: šiaurinis elnias m
Lower Tanana: bedzeyh
Luxembourgish: Rendéier n
Macedonian: ирвас m (irvas)
Malay: rusa kutub (ms)
Manchu: ᠣᡵᠣᠨᠪᡠᡥᡡ (oron buhū)
Maori: renetia
Middle English: reynder
Mongolian: Cyrillic: цаа буга (caa buga), буга (mn) (buga)
Nanai: оро̄н (orōn)
Navajo: hakʼaz bįįh
Negidal: ойон
Northern Yukaghir: илэ (ile)
Norwegian: Bokmål: reinsdyr (no) n, rein (no) m Nynorsk: reinsdyr n, rein m
Ojibwe: adik
Old English: hrān m
Old Norse: hreinn m
Oroch: оро
Oroqen: ɔrɔn, ɔrɔn
Persian: گوزن شمالی (gavazn-e šomâli)
Polish: renifer (pl) m anim, karibu (pl) n (North America)
Portuguese: rena (pt) f, rangífer m, rangífero (pt) m
Romanian: ren (ro) m
Russian: се́верный оле́нь (ru) m (sévernyj olénʹ), кари́бу (ru) m (karíbu) (North America)
Sami: Inari: puásui, kodde Kildin: пуаз (puaz) Lule: boatsoj Northern: boazu Skolt: puäʒʒ, kââʹreǩ, kåʹdd Southern: bovtje, bovtse
Scottish Gaelic: fiadh Lochlannach m, fiadh-sneachda m
Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: и̏рва̄с m, со̏б m, северни јелен m, сјеверни јелен m Roman: ȉrvās (sh) m, sȍb (sh) m, severni jelen m, sjeverni jelen m
Slovak: sob m
Slovene: severni jelen (sl) m
Spanish: reno (es) m, rangífero m, caribú (es) m (North America)
Swahili: kulungu aktiki m, mbawala aktiki f
Swedish: ren (sv) c, rendjur c
Tagalog: reno
Tanacross: wudzih
Thai: กวางเรนเดียร์ (th) (gwaang rayn-dia), เรนเดียร์ (th) (rayn-dia)
Turkish: Ren geyiği (tr) Ottoman Turkish: سیبر صیغینی (Siber sığını, literally “Siberian deer”)
Tuvan: иви (ivi)
Udihe: оро, оло
Ukrainian: півні́чний оле́нь m (pivníčnyj olénʹ)
Ulch: оро
Vietnamese: tuần lộc (vi)
Welsh: carw Llychlyn m

Verb

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reindeer (third-person singular simple present reindeers, present participle reindeering, simple past and past participle reindeered)

To herd or farm reindeer

Reindeer - Wiktionary

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Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

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