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: From earlier scimia, Latin sīmia, from Ancient Greek σῑμός (sīmós, “snub-nosed”). For more examples of initial s- palatalized to sci-, see scialiva, scempio, sciringa (doublet of siringa). Compare Sicilian scìmia.
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.
monkey; ape · ape; savage (an uncivilised or unruly person) · monster; freak (a hideous person)
çekim: çoğul macacos
eş: espoleta
köken: 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…
aile: cada macaco no seu galho, fato-macaco, fato de macaco, ir pentear macacos, macacada, macacagem, macacal, macacão, macacar, macaco velho
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.