noun
Meaning 1
Any of a group of Old World monkeys of the genus Macaca.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
macaque
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/məˈkæk/
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/məˈkɑ(ː)k/
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rhymes with -æk
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noun
Meaning 2
short-tailed monkey of rocky regions of Asia and Africa
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: Old World monkey, catarrhine
Narrower terms: rhesus, rhesus monkey, Macaca mulatta, bonnet macaque, bonnet monkey, capped macaque, crown monkey, Macaca radiata, Barbary ape, Macaca sylvana, crab-eating macaque, croo monkey, Macaca irus
History
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French macaque, from Portuguese macaco, of uncertain origin (see macaco for more). Doublet of macaco.
Across languages
Translations
30 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: մակակա (makaka) — any monkey of the genus Macaca
- Asturian: macacu — any monkey of the genus Macaca
- Bulgarian: макак (makak) — any monkey of the genus Macaca
- Catalan: macaco — any monkey of the genus Macaca
- Chinese Mandarin: 獼猴 /猕猴 (míhóu) — any monkey of the genus Macaca
- Chinese Mandarin: 猢猻 /猢狲 (húsūn) — any monkey of the genus Macaca
- Czech: makak — any monkey of the genus Macaca
- Dutch: makaak — any monkey of the genus Macaca
- Esperanto: makako — any monkey of the genus Macaca
- Finnish: makaki — any monkey of the genus Macaca
- French: macaque — any monkey of the genus Macaca
- German: Makak — any monkey of the genus Macaca
- German: Makake — any monkey of the genus Macaca
- Greek: μακάκος (makákos) — any monkey of the genus Macaca
- Irish: meacaic — any monkey of the genus Macaca
- Japanese: マカク (makaku) — any monkey of the genus Macaca
- Kashmiri: پۆنٛز (ponz) — any monkey of the genus Macaca
- Korean: 마카크 (makakeu) — any monkey of the genus Macaca
- Polish: makak — any monkey of the genus Macaca
- Portuguese: macaco — any monkey of the genus Macaca
- Romanian: macac — any monkey of the genus Macaca
- Russian: мака́ка (makáka) — any monkey of the genus Macaca
- Russian: мака́к (makák) — any monkey of the genus Macaca
- Spanish: macaco — any monkey of the genus Macaca
- Swedish: makak — any monkey of the genus Macaca
- Tocharian A: mkowāñ — any monkey of the genus Macaca
- Tocharian B: mokoṃśka — any monkey of the genus Macaca
- Turkish: makak — any monkey of the genus Macaca
- Vietnamese: khỉ — any monkey of the genus Macaca
- Welsh: macaco — any monkey of the genus Macaca
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