name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
gibbon
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈɡɪbən/
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rhymes with -ɪbən
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/ɡɪˈbɑn/
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CMU ARPABET: G IH1 B AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A small ape of the family Hylobatidae with long limbs, which they use to travel through rainforests by swinging from branch to branch.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
smallest and most perfectly anthropoid arboreal ape having long arms and no tail; of southern Asia and East Indies
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Hylobates lar
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: lesser ape
noun
Meaning 4
English historian best known for his history of the Roman Empire (1737-1794)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Edward Gibbon
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: historian, historiographer
History
Etymology
From Old French Giboin, from Frankish *Gebawin (literally “Gift-friend”).
Reborrowing from French gibbon, folk etymology (compare English Gibbon) ultimately from a Northern Aslian language (compare Batek kəboɲ).
Across languages
Translations
46 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: gibbon — small ape
- Afrikaans: langarmaap — small ape
- Arabic: غِيبُون (ḡibūn/jibawn/jibun) — small ape
- Arabic: جِبَّوْن (ḡibūn/jibawn/jibun) — small ape
- Arabic: جِبُون (ḡibūn/jibawn/jibun) — small ape
- Assamese: গিবন (gibon) — small ape
- Basque: giboi — small ape
- Bulgarian: гибон (gibon) — small ape
- Burmese: မျောက်လွှဲကျော် (myaukhlwai:kyau) — small ape
- Catalan: gibó — small ape
- Chinese Mandarin: 長臂猿 /长臂猿 (chángbìyuán) — small ape
- Czech: gibon — small ape
- Dutch: gibbon — small ape
- Finnish: gibboni — small ape
- French: gibbon — small ape
- Galician: xibón — small ape
- Georgian: გიბონი (giboni) — small ape
- German: Gibbon — small ape
- Greek: γίββων (gívvon) — small ape
- Greek: γίββωνας (gívvonas) — small ape
- Hindi: लंगूर (laṅgūr) — small ape
- Hungarian: gibbon — small ape
- Ido: gibono — small ape
- Irish: giobún — small ape
- Italian: gibbone — small ape
- Japanese: 手長猿 (tenagazaru) — small ape
- Japanese: テナガザル (tenagazaru) — small ape
- Javanese: ꦲꦸꦮꦲꦸꦮ (uwahuwa) — small ape
- Kazakh: ұзын қол мешін (ūzyn qol meşın) — small ape
- Kazakh: гиббон (gibbon) — small ape
- Malay: ungka — small ape
- Malay: wakwak (Kalimantan) — small ape
- Malay: uwa-uwa — small ape
- Navajo: mágí bigaanézí — small ape
- Polish: gibon — small ape
- Portuguese: gibão — small ape
- Romanian: gibon — small ape
- Russian: гиббо́н (gibbón) — small ape
- Slovak: gibon — small ape
- Lower Sorbian: gibbon — small ape
- Spanish: gibón — small ape
- Tày: ca đác — small ape
- Tày: căng — small ape
- Thai: ชะนี (chá-nii) — small ape
- Vietnamese: vượn — small ape
- Welsh: gibon — small ape
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