English
Etymology
Anglicized form of the native Inuvialuit place-name, Inuvialuktun Tuktuyaaqtuuq, meaning "resembling a caribou".
Pronunciation
- (Canada) IPA(key): /ˌtʌktəˈjæktʌk/
Proper noun
Tuktoyaktuk
- A hamlet in the Northwest Territories.
- (Canada, figurative) Any proverbially distant or remote place.
- Synonyms: Timbuktu, Woop Woop
Translations
city
- Inuvialuktun: Tuktuyaaqtuuq
|
distant place
- Afrikaans: Pofadder, Putsonderwater
- Arabic: طَفْرَاوَى (ṭafrāwā) (Oran)
- Chinese:
- Hokkien: 呂宋噶喇吧 / 吕宋噶喇吧 (Lī-sòng-Ka-lâ-pa)
- Danish: Timbuktu
- Dutch: Timboektoe n, Tokio (nl) n, Verweggistan (nl)
- Finnish: Huitsin Nevada, hevonkuusi (fi)
- French: Tombouctou (fr), Pétaouchnock (fr), Houte-Si-Plou (fr) (Wallonia)
- Galician: Cochinchina f, Quimbambas f pl, Pernambuco
- German: Buxtehude (de), Bümpliz (Switzerland)
- Hindi: टिम्बकटू m (ṭimbakṭū), टिंबकटू m (ṭimbakṭū)
- Italian: Canicatti
- Kazakh: Қырым (Qyrym, literally “Crimea”)
- Laz: პეტრა (p̌eťra)
- Lithuanian: Bezdonys
- Norwegian: Bokn (no)
- Portuguese: Cochinchina f
- Russian: тьмутарака́нь (ru) f (tʹmutarakánʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic: Hiort
- Spanish: Conchinchina
- Sranan Tongo: Kokodiako, Bagansiyapiyapi
- Swedish: Tjotahejti (sv)
- Turkish: Fizan
- Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
|