gibbon

See also: Gibbon

English

A lar gibbon

Alternative forms

• guibon (obsolete)

Etymology

Reborrowing from French gibbon, folk etymology (compare English Gibbon) ultimately from an Aslian language.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɪbən/

• Audio (UK):

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• 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.
   • 1950, Evelyn Waugh, Helena.

     ' […] Suppose that in years to come, when the Church's troubles seem to be over, there should come an apostate of my own trade, a false historian, with the mind of Cicero or Tacitus and the soul of an animal,' and he nodded towards the gibbon who fretted his golden chain and chattered for fruit.

Derived terms

terms derived from gibbon

• agile gibbon
• bornean white-bearded gibbon
• capped gibbon ()
• crested gibbon
• hoolock gibbon/hulock gibbon
• Javan gibbon
• kloss's gibbon/kloss gibbon
• lar gibbon
• Mentawai gibbon
• pileated gibbon
• potto gibbon
• shitgibbon, Shitgibbon
• silvery gibbon
• white-cheeked gibbon
• white-handed gibbon
• yellow-cheeked gibbon

Translations

small ape

• Afrikaans: gibbon, langarmaap
• Arabic: غِيبُون m (ḡibūn)
• Assamese: গিবন (gibon)
• Basque: giboi
• Bulgarian: гибон m (gibon)
• Burmese: မျောက်လွှဲကျော် (my) (myaukhlwai:kyau)
• Catalan: gibó m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 長臂猿／长臂猿 (zh) (chángbìyuán), 长臂猿 (zh) (chángbìyuán)

• Czech: gibon (cs) m
• Dutch: gibbon (nl) m
• Finnish: gibboni (fi)
• French: gibbon (fr) m
• Galician: xibón m
• Georgian: გიბონი (giboni)
• German: Gibbon (de) m
• Greek: γίββων m (gívvon)
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• Hindi: लंगूर (hi) (laṅgūr)
• Hungarian: gibbon (hu)
• Ido: gibono (io)
• Irish: giobún m
• Italian: gibbone (it) m
• Japanese: 手長猿 (ja) (tenagazaru), テナガザル (ja) (tenagazaru)
• Kazakh: ұзын қол мешін (ūzyn qol meşın), гиббон (gibbon)
• Malay: ungka (ms)
• Navajo: mágí bigaanézí
• Polish: gibon (pl) m
• Portuguese: gibão (pt) m
• Romanian: gibon (ro) m
• Russian: гиббо́н (ru) m (gibbón)
• Slovak: gibon m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: gibbon m

• Spanish: gibón (es) m
• Thai: ชะนี (th) (chá-nii)
• Welsh: gibon m

References

• “gibbon”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “gibbon”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• gibbon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• gobbin

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French gibbon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɣɪ.bɔn/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: gib‧bon

Noun

gibbon m (plural gibbons)

1. gibbon, primate of the family Hylobatidae

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French

Etymology

Brought to Europe from French India by Joseph François Dupleix, probably from an English folk etymology (compare English Gibbon) with an Aslian root.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒi.bɔ̃/

Noun

gibbon m (plural gibbons)

1. Gibbon

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “gibbon”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
• “gibbon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.