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: Brought to Europe from French India by Joseph François Dupleix, probably from an English folk etymology (compare English Gibbon) with an Aslian root.
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.
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.
Cognate with Muong Bi wẫn. Compare Proto-Vietic *k-vaɲ (whence Arem kwaɲ, etc.) which lacks the expected glottal stop if it was actually cognates of the Viet-Muong forms. Unlikely to be derived from 猨 ~ 猿 (> SV: viên) as proposed by Sinocentric philologists like An Chi.