köken: From Middle High German affe, from Old High German affo, from Proto-West Germanic *apō, from Proto-Germanic *apô. The sense of drunkenness has been traced to the late 18ᵗʰ century, allegedly playing on the homophony of Czech opice (“monkey or ape”) and opít se (“to get drunk”), though the image of a monkey being a possessing demon is translingual, and thus Spanish mona (“she-ape”) also means…
aile: affig, nachäffen, wie ein Affe auf dem Schleifstein
to imitate, to ape, to copycat, to emulate, to follow, to mimic (to follow as a model or a pattern; to make a copy, counterpart, or semblance of) · to imitate (to replace some thing with another, similar to it in some respect) · to imitate each other
çekim: geçmiş imitowano · şimdiki imituje
eş: naśladować, kopiować, udawać, markować
köken: Etymology tree French imiterbor. Proto-Indo-European *h₂euh₁-der.? Proto-Slavic *-ovati Old Polish -ować Polish -ować Polish imitować From French imiter + Polish -ować.
simian (ape, monkey or human; animal belonging to the infraorder Simiiformes within the order Primates) · monkey (any nonhuman simian primate) · ape (uncivilized person)
çekim: çoğul apinat · tamlayan apinan
köken: Borrowed from Late Old Swedish apina, apinia (compare Swedish apinja), from Old Norse apynja (“female monkey”). Compare Old Norse api.
köken: Likely a borrowing from a language spoken east of Canaan, related to Middle Persian [script needed] (kpyk' /kabīg/, “monkey”) and perhaps ultimately from Sanskrit कपि (kapi, “ape, monkey”). Monkeys have never been native to Canaan.
From na (“after”) + aap (“monkey”) + -en. Compare English ape (“to imitate”, verb), English monkey (“to imitate”, verb), and English monkey see, monkey do as well as German nachäffen.