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Meaning 1
Alternative form of aye aye.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
aye-aye
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈaɪˌaɪ/
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rhymes with -aɪaɪ
noun
Meaning 2
The lemur Daubentonia madagascariensis, a solitary nocturnal quadruped found in Madagascar and remarkable for their long fingers, sharp nails, and rodent-like incisor teeth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
nocturnal lemur with long bony fingers and rodent-like incisor teeth closely related to the lemurs
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Daubentonia madagascariensis
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: lemur
History
Etymology
From French aye-aye, from Malagasy aiay (also ahay, haihay or hay-hay in dialect), supposedly imitative of the animal's cry. However, this is doubted by Simons and Myers (2001) who note that the animal does not emit such a sound. They suggest a derivation from Malagasy heh heh (“I don't know”), used by the Malagasy people to avoid naming the animal, which they fear.
Across languages
Translations
62 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: آيْآي (ʔāyʔāy) — nocturnal quadruped
- Armenian: այ-այ (ay-ay) — nocturnal quadruped
- Azerbaijani: əlayaqlılar — nocturnal quadruped
- Basque: aie-aie — nocturnal quadruped
- Bulgarian: ай-а́й (aj-áj) — nocturnal quadruped
- Catalan: ai-ai — nocturnal quadruped
- Chinese Mandarin: 指猴 (zhǐhóu) — nocturnal quadruped
- Czech: ksukol ocasatý — nocturnal quadruped
- Danish: aye aye — nocturnal quadruped
- Dutch: vingerdier — nocturnal quadruped
- Esperanto: fingrobesto — nocturnal quadruped
- Estonian: aie — nocturnal quadruped
- Finnish: ai-ai — nocturnal quadruped
- Finnish: sormieläin — nocturnal quadruped
- French: aye-aye — nocturnal quadruped
- Galician: aie aie — nocturnal quadruped
- Georgian: ხელფეხა (xelpexa) — nocturnal quadruped
- German: Aye-Aye — nocturnal quadruped
- German: Fingertier — nocturnal quadruped
- Greek: άι-άι (ái-ái) — nocturnal quadruped
- Hebrew: איי איי ('ay-'ay) — nocturnal quadruped
- Hungarian: aje-aje — nocturnal quadruped
- Hungarian: véznaujjú maki — nocturnal quadruped
- Indonesian: aye-aye — nocturnal quadruped
- Irish: aidhe-aidhe — nocturnal quadruped
- Italian: aié-aié — nocturnal quadruped
- Italian: aye-aye — nocturnal quadruped
- Italian: chiromio — nocturnal quadruped
- Japanese: アイアイ (aiai) — nocturnal quadruped
- Japanese: 指猿 (yubizaru) — nocturnal quadruped
- Kazakh: ай-ай (ai-ai) — nocturnal quadruped
- Korean: 아이아이 (aiai) — nocturnal quadruped
- Latvian: slaidpirkstainis — nocturnal quadruped
- Lithuanian: laibapirštiniai — nocturnal quadruped
- Lithuanian: laibapirštis — nocturnal quadruped
- Malagasy: aiay — nocturnal quadruped
- Malayalam: അയ്-അയ് (ay-ayŭ) — nocturnal quadruped
- Marathi: आय-आय (āy-āy) — nocturnal quadruped
- Navajo: bílaneezii — nocturnal quadruped
- Norwegian: fingerdyr — nocturnal quadruped
- Persian: آی-آی (ây-ây) — nocturnal quadruped
- Polish: palczak — nocturnal quadruped
- Polish: palczak madagaskarski — nocturnal quadruped
- Portuguese: aie-aie — nocturnal quadruped
- Punjabi: ਆਏ-ਆਏ (āē-āē) — nocturnal quadruped
- Punjabi: آئی-آئی (āī-āī) — nocturnal quadruped
- Romanian: ai — nocturnal quadruped
- Romanian: aye-aye — nocturnal quadruped
- Russian: ай-а́й (aj-áj) — nocturnal quadruped
- Russian: руконо́жка (rukonóžka) — nocturnal quadruped
- Scots: aye-aye — nocturnal quadruped
- Serbo-Croatian: aj-aj — nocturnal quadruped
- Serbo-Croatian: aye-aye — nocturnal quadruped
- Serbo-Croatian: madagaskarski prstaš — nocturnal quadruped
- Swedish: fingerdjur — nocturnal quadruped
- Thai: อาย-อาย (aai-aai) — nocturnal quadruped
- Turkish: ay-ay — nocturnal quadruped
- Udmurt: ай-ай (aj-aj) — nocturnal quadruped
- Ukrainian: ай-а́й (aj-áj) — nocturnal quadruped
- Ukrainian: руконіжка (rukonižka) — nocturnal quadruped
- Uzbek: aye-aye — nocturnal quadruped
- Vietnamese: khỉ aye-aye — nocturnal quadruped