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Middle Low German Moneke (compare Old French Monequin), name of the son of Martin the Ape in Reynard the Fox, from Old Spanish mona 'mona monkey', shortening of mamona, variant of maimón, from Arabic ميمون (maimūn) 'monkey', literally 'blessed', used to ward off the monkey's bad luck.
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monkey (plural monkeys)
- Any of several members of the infra-order Simiiformes of primates, generally smaller than the apes, and distinguished from them by having a tail and cheek pouches.
- (informal) A mischievous child.
- Stop misbehaving, you little monkey!
- (UK, slang) Five-hundred pounds sterling.
- (slang) A person or the role of the person on the sidecar platform of a motorcycle involved in sidecar racing.
- (slang) A person with minimal intelligence and/or (bad) looks.
- (blackjack) A face card.
- (slang) A menial employee who does a repetitive job.
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primate
- Afrikaans: aap (af) m.
- Albanian: majmun (sq) m.
- Amharic: ዝንጀሮ (zənjäro)
- Arabic: قرد (ar) (qird) m.
- Egyptian: قرد (’ird) m.
- Armenian: կապիկ (hy) (kapik)
- Azeri: meymun (az)
- Bashkir: маймыл (maymıl)
- Basque: tximino (eu)
- Belarusian: малпа (be) (málpa) f. (includes apes)
- Bengali: বাঁদর (bn) (bãdôr)
- Bulgarian: маймуна (bg) (majmúna) f., маймун (bg) (majmún) m.
- Burmese: မျောက် (my) (myauk)
- Catalan: mico (ca) m.
- Chamicuro: katujkana
- Chechen: маймал (maymal)
- Cherokee: ᎠᏓᎴᏍᎩᏱᏍᎩ (chr) (adalesgiyisgi)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 猴子 (zh) (hóuzi)
- Min Nan: 猴 (kâu), 猴仔 (kâu-á), 猴猻 (kâu-san), 魎哀 (lióng-aiⁿ)
- Chuvash: упăте (upăte)
- Crimean Tatar: şamek
- Czech: opičák (cs) m., opice (cs) f.
- Danish: abe (da) c., (children's language) abekat (da) c.
- Dutch: aap (nl) m., apin (nl) f.
- Egyptian: qephi (derived from kapi)
- Esperanto: simio (eo)
- Estonian: pärdik, ahv
- Faroese: apa (fo) f.
- Finnish: apina (fi) (includes apes)
- French: singe (fr) m., guenon (fr) f.
- Gagauz: maymun
- Georgian: მაიმუნი (ka) (maimuni)
- German: Affe (de) m.
- Greek: πίθηκος (el) (píthikos) m., μαϊμού (el) (maimu) f.
- Hebrew: קוף (he) (koff) m.
- Hindi: बंदर (hi) (bandar) m. or बन्दर (hi) (bandar) m., वानर (hi) (vānar) m., कपि (hi) (kapi) m.
- Hungarian: majom (hu)
- Icelandic: api (is) m.
- Indonesian: kera (id), monyet (id)
- Interlingua: simia
- Irish: moncaí (ga) m., mwnci (ga)
- Italian: scimmia (it) f.
- Japanese: 猿 (ja) (さる, saru), サル (ja) (saru)
- Karachay-Balkar: маймул (maymul)
- Kazakh: маймыл (kk) (maymıl)
- Khakas: сараамӌын (saraamcın)
- Khmer: ស្វា (km) (swaa)
- Korean: 원숭이 (ko) (wonsung-i)
- Kumyk: маймун (maymun)
- Kurdish: مهیمون
- Kyrgyz: маймыл (ky) (maymıl)
- Lao: ລີງ (lo) (liing)
- Latin: simia (la) m. and f., simius (la) m., simius (la) m., simius (la) m., simia (la) f.
- Latvian: mērkaķis (lv)
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- Lithuanian: beždžionė (lt) f.
- Luganda: nkima
- Luhya: ekhima
- Luo: onger
- Macedonian: мајмун (mk) (májmun) m.
- Malagasy: gidro (mg)
- Malay: monyet (ms)
- Malayalam: കുരങ്ങന് (kurangan) m.
- Maltese: xadin (mt) m., xadina (mt) f., kitmejmun (mt) m., gitmejmun (mt) m.
- Marathi: माकड (mākad), वानर (vānar)
- Mongolian: сармагчин (mn) (sarmagčin)
- Navajo: mágí, mągí
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: ape (no) m., apekatt (no) m.
- Old Norse: api m.
- O'odham: chahngo
- Occitan: monin (oc), monard (oc)
- Old English: please add this translation if you can
- Oriya: please add this translation if you can
- Pashto: بيزو (ps) (bizo) f.
- Persian: بوزینه (fa) (buzine), میمون (fa) (meymun, maymun), کپی (fa) (kapi)
- Polish: małpa (pl) f.
- Portuguese: macaco (pt) m.
- Punjabi: ਬੰਦਰ (pa) m.
- Romanian: maimuță (ro) f.
- Russian: обезьяна (ru) (obez’jána) f. (includes apes)
- Sanskrit: वानरः (sa) (vānaraḥ)
- Sardinian: moninca f.
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: мајмун (sh) m.
- Roman: majmun (sh) m.
- Slovak: opica (sk) f.
- Slovene: opica (sl) f.
- Spanish: mono (es) m., chango (es) m. (Mexico), mico (es) m. (Colombia), simio (es) m.
- Swahili: tumbili (sw) (nc 9/10)
- Swedish: apa (sv) c.
- Tagalog: unggóy, tsonggó
- Tajik: маймун (tg) (maymun)
- Tamil: குறங்கு (kuRangu)
- Tatar: maymıl (tt)
- Telugu: కోతి (te) (kOti), వానరము (te) (vAnaramu)
- Thai: ลิง (th) (ling)
- Turkish: maymun (tr)
- Turkmen: maýmyn (tk)
- Tuvan: сарбашкын (sarbaşqın)
- Ukrainian: мавпа (uk) (mávpa) f. (includes apes)
- Urdu: بندر (ur) (bandar) m., وانر (ur) (vānar) m., کپی (ur) (kapi) m.
- Uyghur: مايمۇن (ug)
- Uzbek: maymun (uz)
- Vietnamese: con khỉ (vi), khỉ (vi)
- Welsh: mwnci (cy) m.
- Wolof: golo gi (wo)
- Yakut: эбисийээнэ (ebisiyeene)
- Zulgo-Gemzek: ŋgìlìŋ
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monkey (third-person singular simple present monkeys, present participle monkeying, simple past and past participle monkeyed or monkied)
- (informal) To meddle; to mess with; to interfere; to fiddle.
- Please don't monkey with the controls if you don't know what you're doing.
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Terms derived from the noun or verb monkey
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