Tom built an igloo in his backyard.
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Igloo
//ˈɪɡ.luː//
Synonyms for "igloo" (68 found)
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Related words (34)
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13 entriesTranslations
69 translations across 51 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- مَبْنًى اَلقَبَّانِي noun (Inuit snow house)
- مَبْنًى قَبَّانِي noun (Inuit snow house)
Assamese
1 entries- ইগ্লো noun (Inuit snow house)
Asturian
1 entries- iglú noun (Inuit snow house)
Bulgarian
1 entries- иглу noun (Inuit snow house)
Catalan
1 entries- iglú noun (Inuit snow house)
Chinese Cantonese
2 entries- 冰屋 noun (Inuit snow house)
- 雪屋 noun (Inuit snow house)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 冰屋 noun (Inuit snow house)
Cree
1 entries- ᐄᔅᒌᒣᐅᑲᒥᒄ noun (Inuit snow house)
Czech
1 entries- iglú noun (Inuit snow house)
Danish
1 entries- iglo noun (Inuit snow house)
Dutch
1 entries- iglo noun (Inuit snow house)
Esperanto
1 entries- iglo noun (Inuit snow house)
Faroese
1 entries- iglo noun (Inuit snow house)
Finnish
1 entries- iglu noun (Inuit snow house)
French
2 entries- igloo noun (Inuit snow house)
- iglou noun (Inuit snow house)
Galician
1 entries- iglú noun (Inuit snow house)
German
3 entries- Iglu noun (Inuit snow house)
- Schneehaus noun (Inuit snow house)
- Schneehütte noun (Inuit snow house)
Greek
1 entries- ιγκλού noun (Inuit snow house)
Greenlandic
2 entries- illu noun (Inuit snow house)
- illuigaq noun (Inuit snow house)
Hebrew
1 entries- איגלו noun (Inuit snow house)
Hindi
2 entries- इगलू noun (Inuit snow house)
- इग्लू noun (Inuit snow house)
Hungarian
1 entries- iglu noun (Inuit snow house)
Icelandic
1 entries- snjóhús noun (Inuit snow house)
Ido
1 entries- igluo noun (Inuit snow house)
Indonesian
3 entries- iglo noun (Inuit snow house)
- igloo noun (Inuit snow house)
- iglu noun (Inuit snow house)
Inuktitut
1 entries- iglu noun (Inuit snow house)
Irish
1 entries- íoglú noun (Inuit snow house)
Italian
1 entries- iglù noun (Inuit snow house)
Japanese
1 entries- イグルー noun (Inuit snow house)
Korean
1 entries- 이글루 noun (Inuit snow house)
Malay
1 entries- iglu noun (Inuit snow house)
Marathi
1 entries- इगलू noun (Inuit snow house)
Occitan
1 entries- igló noun (Inuit snow house)
Ojibwe
1 entries- mikwamiiwigamig noun (Inuit snow house)
Pashto
1 entries- ايغلو noun (Inuit snow house)
Polish
2 entries- igloo noun (Inuit snow house)
- iglu noun (Inuit snow house)
Portuguese
1 entries- iglu noun (Inuit snow house)
Russian
1 entries- и́глу noun (Inuit snow house)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- taigh-sneachda noun (Inuit snow house)
Spanish
1 entries- iglú noun (Inuit snow house)
Swedish
2 entries- igloo noun (Inuit snow house)
- snöhydda noun (Inuit snow house)
Sylheti
1 entries- ꠁꠉꠟꠥ noun (Inuit snow house)
Tagalog
1 entries- iglu noun (Inuit snow house)
Tamil
1 entries- இக்லூ noun (Inuit snow house)
Thai
1 entries- อิกลู noun (Inuit snow house)
Tibetan
1 entries- ཁྱགས་རོམ་ཁང་པ noun (Inuit snow house)
Turkish
2 entries- iglo noun (Inuit snow house)
- iglu noun (Inuit snow house)
Vietnamese
2 entries- lều tuyết noun (Inuit snow house)
- nhà tuyết noun (Inuit snow house)
Volapük
4 entries- el iglu noun (Inuit snow house)
- liglud noun (Inuit snow house)
- nifadom noun (Inuit snow house)
- nifadom läskiomik noun (Inuit snow house)
Welsh
3 entries- iglw noun (Inuit snow house)
- tŷ iâ noun (Inuit snow house)
- tŷ rhew noun (Inuit snow house)
Yup'ik
1 entries- aniguyaq noun (Inuit snow house)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
I'm going to build an igloo.
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I want to build an igloo.
Source: tatoeba (5961601)
The green container is shaped like an igloo.
Source: tatoeba (7781944)
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