First Known Use: 1977
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Garifuna
noun Ga·ri·fu·na \ˌgä-rē-ˈfü-nə\
plural Garifuna or Ga·ri·fu·nas
Definition of GARIFUNA
: a member of a people of African and American Indian descent that live mainly along the Caribbean coast of northern Central America —called also Black Carib; also : the Arawakan language containing many Cariban elements spoken by the Garifunas
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Origin of GARIFUNA
Garifuna garífuna, a self-designation; akin to Taino caribe, caribi Carib, Island Carib (Arawakan language of the Lesser Antilles) Callípona, a self-designation, Guianan Carib kariʔna Carib, person
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