gorilla (largest of the apes, belonging to the genus Gorilla, native to the forests of central Africa and known for their trait of knuckle-walking) · goon, thug (muscular henchman with little intelligence)
çekim: çoğul gorilles
köken: Learned borrowing from New Latin Gorilla, from Ancient Greek Γόριλλαι (Górillai).
köken: Borrowed from New Latin gorilla, from Ancient Greek Γόριλλαι (Górillai), a tribe of hairy women described by the Carthaginian navigator Hanno the Navigator.
köken: Borrowed from French gorille, from New Latin gorilla, from Ancient Greek Γόριλλαι (Górillai, “a tribe of hairy women”), described by Hanno the Navigator, a Carthaginian navigator and possible visitor to the area that later became Sierra Leone.
Either from the following: * Pseudo-Hispanism, derived from English gorilla, and influenced by the pronunciation of Philippine Spanish ⟨ll⟩ (/ʎ/), as per lleísmo. * Borrowed from archaic Spanish gorilla or gorrilla.