gibbon

English

Wikipedia

A lar gibbon

Etymology

From French gibbon.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪbən

Noun

gibbon (plural gibbons)

1. A small ape of the family Hylobatidae with long limbs, which it uses to travel through rainforests by swinging from branch to branch.

Translations

small ape

• Arabic: غيبون (ar) (ghibuun) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 長臂猿 (cmn), 长臂猿 (cmn) (chángbìyuán)

• Czech: gibon (cs) m
• Finnish: gibboni (fi)
• French: gibbon (fr) m
• Galician: xibón (gl) m
• German: Gibbon (de) m
• Hindi: लंगूर (hi) (laṅgūr)
• Hungarian: gibbon (hu)

• Irish: giobún (ga) m1
• Italian: gibbone (it) m
• Japanese: テナガザル (ja) (tenagazaru)
• Navajo: mágí bigaanézí
• Polish: gibon (pl) m
• Portuguese: gibão (pt) m
• Russian: гиббон (ru) (gibbón) m
• Slovak: gibon (sk) m
• Spanish: gibón (es) m
• Thai: ชะนี (th) (chá-nee)

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French

Etymology

Brought to Europe from French India by Joseph François Dupleix[1].

Noun

gibbon m (plural gibbons)

1. Gibbon