qallunaaq means not Inuit; of European descent. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 83 out of 100.
qallunaaq is pronounced /kaˈluːnak/.
Why “qallunaaq” is a great word
QALLUNAAQ — [Adjective, Noun] A term used by Inuit peoples to designate a person not of Inuit descent, particularly one of European origin. From Eastern Canadian Inuktitut ᖃᓪᓗᓈᖅ (qallonaaq) and Greenlandic qallunaaq, often etymologized as meaning 'one with big eyebrows'. Unlike "Kabloona" (its lexical cousin in Western Arctic dialects) or "Inuk" (the word for a member of the Inuit people themselves), "qallunaaq" is the Eastern and Greenlandic marker of categorical otherness. It is the bewildering geometry of a schooner's rigging against a flat horizon, the first strange scent of wool and metal on the wind, and the pale, furrowed brow beneath a stranger's hat—a single, weathered word for the whole world beyond the map's edge, born not of malice but of precise observation.
adj
- Not Inuit; of European descent.
noun
- A non-Inuit, especially someone of European descent.