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
köken: Borrowed from Wolof ñuul (“black, to be black”), wu ñuula (“a person who is black”), fas wu ñuul (“black horse”), 1890. The original phrase is sometimes offensive in the Wolof language.
Jeune, j'ai le souvenir d'une madame Nicole / Instit' qui pensait qu'un bougnoule n'était pas fait pour l'école
köken: Borrowed from Old High German winda (“winch”), also wazzarwinda (“water powered winch”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *windaną (“to wind”), cognate with German Winde.
goat, she-goat · a fire basket with burning fatwood in it, used for fishing at night · stupid and/or annoying woman
çekim: çoğul ко́зы · tamlayan козы́
eş: яманка, яманушка, иманка, иманушка
köken: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *koza.
aile: козодо́й, козю́ля, козя́вка, Phrases, драть как си́дорову ко́зу, как си́дорову ко́зу, на козе́ не объе́дешь, на криво́й козе́ не объе́дешь, отставно́й козы́ бараба́нщик
monkey, ape, simian; any member of the infraorder Simiiformes · Term of abuse, presenting a person as not quite human on account of appearance, monkey business and so on.
çekim: çoğul apen
köken: From Middle Dutch āpe, from Old Dutch *apo, from Proto-West Germanic *apō, from Proto-Germanic *apô.
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.
crow · slur for a dark-skinned person, especially a Roma/Gypsy. Less usual, a slur for a black person
çekim: çoğul ciori · tamlayan ciori
köken: Unknown. Possibly a substratum word of Dacian and ultimately Indo-European origin, related to Albanian sorrë, or borrowed from it; compare Aromanian cioarã, tsoarã. Also seemingly related to several Italo-romance dialect cognates, compare Friulian çore, Calabrian ciola, Neapolitan ciàula, Sicilian ciaula and Tarantino ciola.
aile: a-l râde și ciorile, cât cioara în par, ca cioara în par, ceapa-ciorii, cioară-de-câmp, cioară-de-semănătură, cioară-gulerată, cioară-pucioasă, ciocul-ciorii, ciorărie
jack, socket (an opening into which a plug or other connecting part is designed to fit) · foundation · bottom, floor, bed (the lowermost surface of a body of water, as of a river, lake, or sea)
Unknown. Thought to have been borrowed from a Bantu language. Bantu maka, "cat", comes from -mañga (an old East African Bantu word for the sea-coast, often applied to any strange or foreign product). But it seems unlikely that the Bantu would have used such a word to denote familiar animals like apes and monkeys. However, none of the many Bantu words for apes and monkeys resembles "macaco". Other…