Pronunciation: ˌ gä-r ē - ' fü-n ə
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural Garifuna or Ga · ri · fu · nas
Etymology: 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 kari ʔ na Carib, person
Date: 1977
: 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