ape

See also: Ape, apê, apë, åpe, and a pé

English

an ape
the silvery gibbon (1)

Pronunciation

• enPR: āp, IPA^(key): /eɪp/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -eɪp

Etymology 1

From Middle English ape, from Old English apa (“ape, monkey”), from Proto-Germanic *apô (“monkey, ape”), possibly derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep- (“water”), compare Proto-Celtic *abū (“river”), if the word originally referred to a "water sprite". Traditionally assumed to be an ancient loanword instead, ultimately probably from an unidentified non-Indo-European language of regions in Africa or Asia where monkeys are native. Cognate with Scots aip (“ape”), West Frisian aap (“ape”), Dutch aap (“monkey, ape”), Low German Ape (“ape”), German Affe (“monkey, ape”), Swedish apa (“monkey, ape”), Icelandic api (“ape”).

Noun

ape (plural apes)

1. A primate of the clade Hominoidea, generally larger than monkeys and distinguished from them by having no tail.
2. Any such primate other than a human.
3. (derogatory) An uncivilised person.

Hyponyms

• See also Wikisaurus:ape

Derived terms

Terms derived from ape

• ape-baboon
• ape-bearer
• apedom
• apehood

• apelike
• apeling
• apely
• apeman

• apeshit
• go ape
• naked ape

Translations

animal

• Afrikaans: aap (af)
• Arabic: قِرْد‏‎ m (qird), حِبْن‏‎ m (ḥibn), سَعْدَان‏‎ m (saʿdān)

  Moroccan Arabic: قرْد‏‎ (qərd)

• Armenian: մարդանման կապիկ (mardanman kapik), (ape or monkey) կապիկ (hy) (kapik)
• Belarusian: (ape or monkey) ма́лпа (be) f (málpa)
• Bulgarian: (ape or monkey) майму́на (bg) f (majmúna)
• Catalan: mico (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 猿 (zh) (yuán), 無尾猿 (zh), 无尾猿 (zh) (wúwěiyuán), 類人猿 (zh), 类人猿 (zh) (lèirényuán)

• Czech: opice (cs) f
• Danish: abe (da) c
• Dutch: aap (nl) m, apin (nl) f, mensaap (nl) m
• Esperanto: homoideo
• Estonian: ahv (et)
• Faroese: apa (fo) f
• Finnish: apina (fi), ihmisapina (fi) (scientific)
• French: singe (fr) m, hominoïdé m, singe anthropoïde m
• Galician: simio m
• Georgian: მაიმუნი (ka) (maimuni)
• German: Menschenaffe (de) m, (ape or monkey) Affe (de) m
• Greek: πίθηκος (el) m (píthikos)
• Hebrew: קוף אדם‏‎ m (kof-adám)
• Hindi: कपि (hi) m (kapi), वानर (hi) m (vānar)
• Hungarian: majom (hu), emberszabású majom (hu)
• Icelandic: api (is) m
• Indonesian: kera (id)
• Irish: ápa m
• Italian: scimmia (it) f, ominide (it) m
• Japanese: (ape or monkey) 猿 (ja) (さる, saru), サル (ja) (saru), 類人猿 (るいじんえん, ruijin’en)
• Khmer: ស្វា (km) (swaa)
• Korean: (ape or monkey) 원숭이 (ko) (wonsung-i), 유인원 (ko) (yu-inwon) (類人猿 (ko))
• Latin: sīmia (la) f, sīmius m, clura f
• Lithuanian: beždžiõnė (lt) f, a member of the family Pongidae žmõgbeždžionė f
• Low German: Aap (nds) m

• Luxembourgish: Af m
• Macedonian: мајмун m (majmun)
• Malay: mawas
• Maori: makimaki
• Mongolian: сармагчин (mn) (sarmagčin)
• Navajo: mágí
• Ngazidja Comorian: nkima class 9/10
• Norman: marmoûset m
• North Frisian: (Mooring) ååwe n; (Föhr-Amrum) aab n
• Norwegian: ape (no) c
• Old English: apa m
• Persian: بوزینه‏‎ (fa) (buzine), کپی‏‎ (fa) (kapi)
• Polish: (ape or monkey) małpa (pl) f, małpa człekokształtna f
• Portuguese: macaco (pt) m
• Romanian: maimuță (ro) f
• Russian: (ape or monkey) обезья́на (ru) f (obezʹjána), человекообра́зная обезья́на f (čelovekoobráznaja obezʹjána)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мајмун m

  Roman: majmun (sh) m

• Slovak: opica (sk) f
• Slovene: opica (sl) f
• Spanish: mono (es) m
• Swedish: människoapa c, (ape or monkey) apa (sv) c
• Tagalog: bakulaw, ugaw (big)
• Tajik: маймун (tg) (maymun)
• Thai: (ape or monkey) จ๋อ (jŏr)
• Turkish: insansı maymun (tr)
• Ukrainian: (ape or monkey) ма́впа (uk) f (mávpa)
• Vietnamese: vượn (vi), siêu họ Người
• Volapük: lep (vo)
• Walloon: mårticot (wa) m, séndje (wa) m
• West Frisian: aap (fy)
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can

derogatory: person

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: apina (fi)
• German: Affe (de) m
• Greek: πίθηκος (el) m (píthikos)
• Hungarian: majom (hu)

• Italian: scimmione m
• Low German: Aap (nds) m
• Macedonian: мајмун m (majmun)
• Portuguese: macaco (pt) m, primata (pt) m
• Russian: обезья́на (ru) f (obezʹjána)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

Verb

ape (third-person singular simple present apes, present participle aping, simple past and past participle aped)

1. (intransitive) To behave like an ape.
2. (transitive) To imitate; mimic.
   • 1961, J. A. Philip, "Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato," Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, vol. 92, p. 454,

     It is not conceived as a mere “aping” in externals nor as an enacting in the sense of assuming a foreign role.

Derived terms

• aper

Translations

to behave like an ape

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: käyttäytyä kuin apina

• Hungarian: majomkodik
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

to imitate

• Bulgarian: подражавам (bg) (podražavam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: na-apen (nl), nadoen (nl), nabootsen (nl), imiteren (nl)
• Esperanto: simii
• Finnish: matkia (fi), apinoida (fi)
• French: singer (fr)
• German: nachäffen (de)
• Greek: πιθηκίζω (el) (pithikízo)
• Hungarian: majmol (hu)
• Icelandic: apa eftir

• Italian: scimmiottare (it)
• Persian: کپی کردن‏‎ (fa) (kapi kardan), تقلید کردن‏‎ (fa) (taqlid kardan)
• Polish: małpować, imitować (pl)
• Portuguese: imitar (pt), macaquear
• Romanian: imita (ro), maimuțări (ro)
• Russian: (act the ape) обезья́нничать (ru) (obezʹjánničatʹ), подража́ть (ru) (podražátʹ)
• Spanish: remedar (es), imitar (es)
• Swedish: härma (sv), apa efter (sv)
• Ukrainian: мавпувати (mavpuvaty)

Etymology 2

Clipping of apeshit, or ape-shit (crazy).

Adjective

ape (not comparable)

1. Wild; crazy.

   We were ape over the new look.

   He went ape when he heard the bad news.

See also

• monkey
• troop (collective noun)
• Appendix: Animals

Anagrams

• EAP, EPA, PAE, PEA, Pae, Pea, pea

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Afrikaans

Noun

ape

1. plural of aap

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Corsican

Noun

ape

1. plural of apa

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Finnish

(index ap)

Etymology

appaa +‎ -e

Noun

ape

1. horse feed
2. (colloquial) food

Declension

Inflection of ape (Kotus type 48/hame, pp-p gradation)
nominative		ape	appeet
genitive		appeen	appeiden appeitten
partitive		apetta	appeita
illative		appeeseen	appeisiin appeihin
		singular	plural
nominative		ape	appeet
accusative	nom.	ape	appeet
	gen.	appeen
genitive		appeen	appeiden appeitten
partitive		apetta	appeita
inessive		appeessa	appeissa
elative		appeesta	appeista
illative		appeeseen	appeisiin appeihin
adessive		appeella	appeilla
ablative		appeelta	appeilta
allative		appeelle	appeille
essive		appeena	appeina
translative		appeeksi	appeiksi
instructive		—	appein
abessive		appeetta	appeitta
comitative		—	appeineen

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Interlingua

Noun

ape (plural apes)

1. bee

Related terms

• apicultura

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin apis, apem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈaːpe]

• Audio

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Noun

ape f (plural api)

1. (zoology) bee
2. (familiar) honeybee

Synonyms

• (2) ape da miele, ape domestica

Related terms

• ape regina
• apiario
• apicoltura

• apino
• apiterapia
• pecchia

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Latin

Verb

ape

1. second-person singular present active imperative of apō

References

• ape in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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Neapolitan

Noun

ape

1. plural of apa

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Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aːpe/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse api.

Noun

ape f, m (definite singular apa or apen, indefinite plural aper, definite plural apene)

1. ape, monkey

Related terms

• apekatt
• primat

Etymology 2

Verb

ape (imperative ap, present tense aper, passive apes, simple past apa or apet or apte, past participle apa or apet or apt, present participle apende)

1. to ape, mimic or imitate.

References

• “ape” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse api.

Noun

ape m (definite singular apen, indefinite plural apar, definite plural apane)

ape f (definite singular apa, indefinite plural aper, definite plural apene)

1. ape, monkey

Related terms

• apekatt
• primat

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• apa

Verb

ape

1. to ape, mimic or imitate.

Conjugation

    Conjugation of ape in Nynorsk

Infinitive active	ape
Infinitive passive	apast
Present	apar
Past	apa
Present participle	apande
Past participle	apa
Imperative	ap

    Conjugation of ape in Nynorsk

Infinitive active	ape
Infinitive passive	apast
Present	aper
Past	apte
Present participle	apande
Past participle	apt
Imperative	ap

References

• “ape” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈape]

Noun

ape f pl

1. plural of apă