monkey

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈmʌŋki/
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• Northern-England: /ˈmʊŋki/
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• rhymes with -ʌŋki
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• CMU ARPABET: M AH1 NG K IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Uncertain: * May be derived from monk + -ey (diminutive suffix), * or borrowed from Middle Low German Moneke, the name of the son of Martin the Ape in Reynard the Fox (which may represent an unattested colloquial Middle Low German *moneke, *moneken), itself of uncertain origin: ** Possibly derived from a Romance term represented by Late Middle French monne (whence Modern French mone (“monkey”)) or earlier Old French monnekin (“monkey”), originally Monnekin, the name of a monkey in Li Dis d'Entendement. Compare also Old French and Middle French monin (“monkey”). *** The French terms may have been borrowed from Italian monna (“monkey”), from Old Spanish mona (“female monkey”), itself a shortening of mamona, variant of maimón, from Arabic مَيْمُون (maymūn, “baboon”)). *** However, Old French monnekin may alternatively be unrelated to the other terms, instead being a borrowing of Early Middle Dutch mannekin (a diminutive of man, literally “little human”), and if so monkey is a doublet of mannequin; see modern Dutch manneken.

373 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: aap — primate
• Ahom: 𑜎𑜢𑜂𑜫 (liṅ) — primate
• Albanian: majmun — primate
• Southern Altai: мечин (mečin) — primate
• Amharic: ዝንጀሮ (zənǧäro) — primate
• Chungli Ao: shingo — primate
• Arabic: سَعْدَان (saʕdān) — primate
• Arabic: قِرْد (qird) — primate
• Arabic: حِبْن (ḥibn) — primate
• Arabic: نِسْنَاس (nisnās) — primate
• Arabic: مَيْمُون (maymūn) — primate
• Algerian Arabic: شادي (šādi) — primate
• Arabic: نسناس (nesnās) — primate
• Arabic: قرد (qird) — primate
• Arabic: سبال (sebāl) — primate
• Arabic: قرد (gird) — primate
• Arabic: نسناس (nasnās) — primate
• Arabic: سعدان (saʕdān) — primate
• Iraqi Arabic: شادي (šɑ̄di) — primate
• Arabic: قرد (qard) — primate
• Yemeni Arabic: ربح (rabḥ) — primate
• Armenian: կապիկ (kapik) — primate
• Aromanian: maimun — primate
• Asi: amo — primate
• Assamese: বান্দৰ (bandor) — primate
• Asturian: monu — primate
• Asturian: simiu — primate
• Avar: маймалак (majmalak) — primate
• Azerbaijani: meymun — primate
• West Coast Bajau: rungui — primate
• West Coast Bajau: mook — primate
• West Coast Bajau: kuya — primate
• Bangi: nkema — primate
• Bashkir: маймыл (maymıl) — primate
• Basque: tximino — primate
• Belarusian: ма́лпа (málpa) — primate
• Bengali: বাঁদর (bãdor) — primate
• Bhojpuri: बानर (bānar) — primate
• Bau Bidayuh: oyung — primate
• Central Bikol: ukay — primate
• Central Bikol: amo — primate
• Central Bikol: kabalang — primate
• Bole: bido — primate
• Bouyei: lingz — primate
• Bouyei: duezlingz — primate
• Bulgarian: майму́на (majmúna) — primate
• Bulgarian: майму́н (majmún) — primate
• Burmese: မျောက် (myauk) — primate
• Canela: cukôj — primate
• Carpathian Rusyn: ма́лфа (málfa) — primate
• Carpathian Rusyn: малфу́н (malfún) — primate
• Catalan: mico — primate
• Cebuano: amo — primate
• Chamicuro: katujkana — primate
• Chechen: маймал (majmal) — primate
• Cherokee: ᎠᏓᎴᏍᎩᏱᏍᎩ (adalesgiyisgi) — primate
• Cherokee: ᏓᎴᏍᎩᏍᎩ (dalesgisgi) — primate
• Chickasaw: hattak shawi' — primate
• Chinese Cantonese: 馬騮 /马骝 — primate
• Chinese Cantonese: 猴子 (hau4 zi2) — primate
• Chinese: ху (hu) — primate
• Chinese: хур (hur) — primate
• Eastern Min Chinese: 猴 (gàu) — primate
• Gan Chinese: 猴子 (heu2 zi) — primate
• Hakka Chinese: 猴仔 (hèu-é) — primate
• Hakka Chinese: 猴哥 (hèu-kô) — primate
• Chinese: 猴 (zh-min-nan) — primate
• Chinese: 猴仔 (kâu-á) — primate
• Chinese: 老猴 (lâu-kâu) — primate
• Chinese: 猴山 (kâu-san) — primate
• Chinese: 猴山仔 (zh-min-nan) — primate
• Chinese: 魎哀 /魉哀 (lióng-ain) — primate
• Jin Chinese: 毛猴 (mau1 hou1) — primate
• Chinese Mandarin: 猴子 (hóuzi) — primate
• Chinese Mandarin: 猴兒 /猴儿 (hóur) — primate
• Chinese Mandarin: 猴 (hóu) — primate
• Northern Min Chinese: 猴屄 (gě-biĕ) — primate
• Northern Min Chinese: 猴 (gě) — primate
• Wu Chinese: 活猻 /活狲 — primate
• Xiang Chinese: 猴子 (hou2 zr) — primate
• Chukchi: маӈкы (maṇky) — primate
• Chuvash: упӑте (up̬ăt̬e) — primate
• Cornish: sim — primate
• Crimean Tatar: şamek — primate
• Czech: opičák — primate
• Czech: opice — primate
• Danish: abe — primate
• Danish: abekat — primate
• Dhivehi: ރާމާމަކުނު (rāmāmakunu) — primate
• Dutch: aap — primate
• Dutch: apin — primate
• Erzya: обезьган (obeźgan) — primate
• Esperanto: simio — primate
• Estonian: pärdik — primate
• Estonian: ahv — primate
• Faroese: apa — primate
• Finnish: apina — primate
• French: singe — primate
• French: guenon — primate
• North Frisian: ååwe — primate
• North Frisian: aab — primate
• Saterland Frisian: Oape — primate
• Gagauz: maymun — primate
• Galician: mono — primate
• Galician: simio — primate
• Georgian: მაიმუნი (maimuni) — primate
• German: Affe — primate
• German: Äffin — primate
• German: aff — primate
• Gondi: కోవె (kōve) — primate
• Greek: πίθηκος (píthikos) — primate
• Greek: μαϊμού (maïmoú) — primate
• Ancient Greek: πίθηκος (píthēkos) — primate
• Greenlandic: aapakaaq — primate
• Mbya Guarani: ka'i — primate
• Gujarati: વાનર (vānar) — primate
• Gujarati: વાંદરું (vā̃drũ) — primate
• Haitian Creole: makak — primate
• Hausa: biri — primate
• Hausa: birinya — primate
• Hawaiian: keko — primate
• Hebrew: קוֹף (kof) — primate
• Higaonon: amu — primate
• Hiligaynon: amo — primate
• Hindi: बंदर m or बन्दर (bandar) — primate
• Hindi: वानर (vānar) — primate
• Hindi: कपि (kapi) — primate
• Hindi: मर्कट (markaṭ) — primate
• Hindi: बानर (bānar) — primate
• White Hmong: liab — primate
• Hungarian: majom — primate
• Hunsrik: Aff — primate
• Icelandic: api — primate
• Ilocano: bakes — primate
• Indonesian: kera — primate
• Indonesian: monyet — primate
• Interlingua: simia — primate
• Irish: moncaí — primate
• Italian: scimmia — primate
• Japanese: 猿 (saru) — primate
• Japanese: サル (saru) — primate
• Kanakanabu: ngʉkau — primate
• Karachay-Balkar: маймул (maymul) — primate
• Kashmiri: وانٛدُر (vāndur) — primate
• Kazakh: маймыл (maimyl) — primate
• Khakas: сараамӌын (saraamcın) — primate
• Khmer: ស្វា (svaa) — primate
• Khün: ᩃᩥ᩠ᨦ — primate
• Kimbundu: hima — primate
• Kituba: nkima — primate
• Kongo: nkewa — primate
• Konkani: मांकड (māṅkaḍ) — primate
• Korean: 원숭이 (wonsung'i) — primate
• Kumyk: маймун (maymun) — primate
• Central Kurdish: مەیموون (meymûn) — primate
• Northern Kurdish: meymûn — primate
• Kyrgyz: маймыл (maymıl) — primate
• Kyrgyz: мечин (mecin) — primate
• Ladino: maymona — primate
• Lakota: šúŋka wičháša — primate
• Lao: ລີງ (līng) — primate
• Latin: simia — primate
• Latin: simius — primate
• Latin: simia — primate
• Latvian: pērtiķis — primate
• Latvian: mērkaķis — primate
• Eastern Lawa: เฟือะ (fueaʼ) — primate
• Western Lawa: เฟือะ (fueaʼ) — primate
• Lezgi: маймун (majmun) — primate
• Lingala: mpunga — primate
• Lingala: makako — primate
• Lingala: nkema — primate
• Lisu: ꓚꓬꓹ ꓟꓬꓱꓼ (tʃɑ̌ mjø̱̀) — primate
• Lisu: ꓟꓬꓱꓼ (mjø̱̀) — primate
• Lisu: ꓚꓬꓹ ꓟꓲꓼ (tʃɑ̌ mì̱) — primate
• Lithuanian: beždžionė — primate
• Low German: Aap — primate
• Low German: Oop — primate
• Low German: Aapkatt — primate
• Low German: Oopkatt — primate
• Lü: ᦟᦲᧂ (liing) — primate
• Luganda: nkima — primate
• Luhya: ekhima — primate
• Luo: onger — primate
• Macedonian: мајмун (majmun) — primate
• Maguindanao: amo — primate
• Maguindanao: ubal — primate
• Malagasy: gidro — primate
• Malay: monyet — primate
• Malay: kera — primate
• Malay: cewe kerek — primate
• Malay: ketek — primate
• Brunei Malay: ambuk — primate
• Malayalam: കുരങ്ങന് (kuraṅṅanŭ) — primate
• Malayalam: കുരങ്ങ് (kuraṅṅŭ) — primate
• Maltese: xadin — primate
• Maltese: xadina — primate
• Maltese: kitmejmun — primate
• Maltese: gitmejmun — primate
• Manchu: ᠪᠣᠨᡳᠣ (bonio) — primate
• Manchu: ᠮᠣᠨᡳᠣ (monio) — primate
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: uval — primate
• Manx: apag — primate
• Māori: hako — primate
• Māori: maki — primate
• Māori: makimaki — primate
• Maranao: amo' — primate
• Maranao: obal — primate
• Marathi: माकड (mākaḍ) — primate
• Marathi: वानर (vānar) — primate
• Central Melanau: kuyad — primate
• Mon: ကၞုဲ — primate
• Mongolian: сармагчин (sarmagčin) — primate
• Mongolian: ᠰᠠᠷᠮᠠᠭᠴᠢᠨ (sarmaɣčin) — primate
• Tagal Murut: tanduoi — primate
• Tagal Murut: jabulou — primate
• Central Nahuatl: ozomahtli — primate
• Classical Nahuatl: ozomahtli — primate
• Classical Nahuatl: cuauhchīmal — primate
• Nanai: монён (monjon) — primate
• Navajo: mágí — primate
• Navajo: mągí — primate
• Neapolitan: scigna — primate
• Nivkh: мем (mem) — primate
• Nivkh: обезьяна (obezjjana) — primate
• Nogai: мешин (meşin) — primate
• Norman: marmoûset — primate
• Norman: sînge — primate
• Norwegian Bokmål: ape — primate
• Norwegian Bokmål: apekatt — primate
• Norwegian Nynorsk: ape — primate
• Norwegian Nynorsk: apekatt — primate
• Nuer: gɔɔk — primate
• Nyah Kur: ฮนูย — primate
• Occitan: monin — primate
• Occitan: monard — primate
• Odia: ବାନର (bānara) — primate
• Old East Slavic: мамона (mamona) — primate
• Old East Slavic: мамонь (mamonĭ) — primate
• Old East Slavic: обезьꙗна (obezĭjana) — primate
• Old East Slavic: обозьꙗна (obozĭjana) — primate
• Old English: apa — primate
• Old Norse: api — primate
• Old Ruthenian: обезъꙗна (obezʺjana) — primate
• Old Ruthenian: обезꙗна (obezjana) — primate
• Old Ruthenian: обезъана (obezʺana) — primate
• Old Ruthenian: малпа (malpa) — primate
• O'odham: chahngo — primate
• Pacoh: adơaih — primate
• Pali: vānara — primate
• Pali: kapi — primate
• Pannonian Rusyn: маймун (majmun) — primate
• Pannonian Rusyn: налпа (nalpa) — primate
• Pashto: بيزو (bizo) — primate
• Dari: مَیْمُون (maymūn) — primate
• Dari: بُوزِینَه (būzīna) — primate
• Dari: کَپِی (kapī) — primate
• Dari: کَپِّی (kappī) — primate
• Iranian Persian: مِیْمون (meymun) — primate
• Iranian Persian: بوزینِه (buzine) — primate
• Iranian Persian: کَپی (kapi) — primate
• Iranian Persian: کَپّی (kappi) — primate
• Piedmontese: sumia — primate
• Pipil: usumati — primate
• Polish: małpa — primate
• Portuguese: macaco — primate
• Portuguese: símio — primate
• Portuguese: mono — primate
• Punjabi: ਬਾਂਦਰ (bāndar) — primate
• Punjabi: بانْدَر (bāndar) — primate
• Quechua: k'usillu — primate
• Romanian: maimuță — primate
• Romanian: simie — primate
• Russian: обезья́на (obezʹjána) — primate
• Saek: ลิ๊ง — primate
• Samoan: manukī — primate
• Sanskrit: वानर (vānara) — primate
• Sanskrit: कपि (kapi) — primate
• Sardinian: moninca — primate
• Scottish Gaelic: muncaidh — primate
• Serbo-Croatian: ма̀јмун — primate
• Serbo-Croatian: о̀пица (zoological) — primate
• Serbo-Croatian: јо́пац — primate
• Serbo-Croatian: màjmun — primate
• Serbo-Croatian: òpica (zoological) — primate
• Serbo-Croatian: jópac — primate
• Shan: လိင်း (líng) — primate
• Sinhalese: වඳුරා (wandurā) — primate
• Slovak: opica — primate
• Slovene: opica — primate
• Lower Sorbian: nałpa — primate
• Spanish: mono — primate
• Spanish: chango — primate
• Spanish: mico — primate
• Spanish: simio — primate
• Spanish: jimio — primate
• Spanish: befo — primate
• Spanish: maimón — primate
• Sranan Tongo: yapi — primate
• Swahili: tumbili — primate
• Swedish: apa — primate
• Sylheti: ꠛꠣꠘ꠆ꠖꠞ (bandor) — primate
• Tabaru: mia — primate
• Tagalog: unggoy — primate
• Tagalog: tsonggo — primate
• Tai Dam: ꪩꪲꪉ — primate
• Tajik: маймун (maymun) — primate
• Tamil: குரங்கு (kuraṅku) — primate
• Tatar: маймыл (maymıl) — primate
• Tatar: маймул (maymul) — primate
• Tausug: amu — primate
• Tày: lình — primate
• Telugu: కోతి (kōti) — primate
• Telugu: వానరము (vānaramu) — primate
• Ternate: mia — primate
• Thai: ลิง (ling) — primate
• Northern Thai: ᩃᩥ᩠ᨦ — primate
• Tibetan: སྤྲེའུ (spre'u) — primate
• Tigrinya: ህበይ (həbäy) — primate
• Tiruray: ubal — primate
• Tocharian B: mokoṃśka — primate
• Tocharian B: mokoṃśke — primate
• Turkish: maymun — primate
• Ottoman Turkish: میمون (maymun) — primate
• Ottoman Turkish: پیچین (piçin) — primate
• Turkmen: maýmyn — primate
• Tuvan: сарбашкын (sarbaşkın) — primate
• Ukrainian: ма́впа (mávpa) — primate
• Unami: monkis — primate
• Urdu: بَنْدَر (bandar) — primate
• Uyghur: مايمۇن (maymun) — primate
• Uzbek: maymun — primate
• Vietnamese: khỉ — primate
• Walloon: séndje — primate
• Walloon: mårticot — primate
• Welsh: mwnci — primate
• Wolio: ndoke — primate
• Wolof: golo gi — primate
• Yakut: эбисийээнэ (ebisiyeene) — primate
• Yiddish: מאַלפּע (malpe) — primate
• Yoruba: ọ̀bọ — primate
• Yucatec Maya: maʼax — primate
• Zhuang: lingz — primate
• Zhuang: maxlaeuz — primate
• Zhuang: duzlingz — primate
• Zulgo-Gemzek: ŋgìlìŋ — primate
• Chinese Cantonese: 馬騮 /马骝 — mischievous child
• Hakka Chinese: 猴哥仔 (hèu-kô-é) — mischievous child
• Hakka Chinese: 細猴仔 /细猴仔 (se-hèu-é) — mischievous child
• Hakka Chinese: 野猴仔 (yâ-hèu-é) — mischievous child
• Chinese: 猴山仔 (zh-min-nan) — mischievous child
• Chinese: 猴囡仔 (zh-min-nan) — mischievous child
• Chinese Mandarin: 猴子 (hóuzi) — mischievous child
• Chinese Mandarin: 小猴子 (xiǎohóuzi) — mischievous child
• Dutch: apenjong — mischievous child
• Dutch: brutale aap — mischievous child
• Esperanto: infanaĉo — mischievous child
• Esperanto: bubo — mischievous child
• Finnish: apina — mischievous child
• Macedonian: мајмунче (majmunče) — mischievous child
• Russian: прока́зник (prokáznik) — mischievous child
• Russian: прока́зница (prokáznica) — mischievous child
• Russian: шалу́н (šalún) — mischievous child
• Russian: шалу́нья (šalúnʹja) — mischievous child
• Slovene: afna — mischievous child
• Tamil: குரங்கு (kuraṅku) — mischievous child
• Tamil: வாண்டு (vāṇṭu) — mischievous child
• Walloon: mårticot — mischievous child
• Welsh: mwnci — mischievous child
• Finnish: hiplata — to meddle, mess with
• Finnish: näpelöidä — to meddle, mess with
• Russian: валя́ть дурака́ (valjátʹ duraká) — to meddle, mess with
• Tamil: நோண்டு (nōṇṭu) — to meddle, mess with