ape

See also: Ape and åpe

English

Wikipedia

an ape
the silvery gibbon (1)

Etymology

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". Cognate with Scots aip (“ape”), West Frisian aap (“ape”), Dutch aap (“monkey, ape”), Low German Ape (“ape”), German Affe (“monkey, ape”), Swedish apa (“ape”), Icelandic api (“ape”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: āp, IPA^(key): /eɪp/
• Rhymes: -eɪp

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: قرد m (qird), حبن m (ḥibn), سعدان m (saʿdān)

  Moroccan Arabic: قرْد (qərd)

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

  Mandarin: 無尾猿 (zh), 无尾猿 (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
• 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 m (kapi), वानर m (vānar)
• Hungarian: majom (hu), emberszabású majom (hu)
• Icelandic: api (is) m
• Indonesian: kera (id)
• Italian: scimmia (it) f, ominide (it) m
• Japanese: (ape or monkey) 猿 (ja) (さる, saru), サル (saru), 類人猿 (るいじんえん, ruijin’en)
• Jèrriais: marmoûset m
• 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

• Lithuanian: beždžiõnė f, a member of the family Pongidae žmõgbeždžionė f
• Low German: Aap (nds) m
• Luxembourgish: Af m
• Macedonian: мајмун m (majmun)
• Mongolian: сармагчин (mn) (sarmagčin)
• Navajo: mágí
• 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 f
• Slovene: opica (sl) f
• Spanish: mono (es) m
• Swedish: människoapa c, apa (sv) c
• Tagalog: bakulaw
• Tajik: маймун (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), (♂) hilep, (♀) jilep (vo), (♂♀ offspring, young) lepül, (♂) hilepül, (♀) jilepül, (diminutive, ♂♀) lepil (vo), (augmentative, ♂♀) lelep
• Walloon: mårticot (wa) m, séndje (wa) m
• West Frisian: aap (fy)

derogatory: person

• German: Affe (de) m
• Greek: πίθηκος (el) m (píthikos)
• Italian: scimmione m
• Low German: Aap (nds) m

• Macedonian: мајмун m (majmun)
• Russian: обезья́на (ru) f (obezʹjána)

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

imitate

• Bulgarian: подражавам (bg) (podražavam)
• 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)
• 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
• Ukrainian: мавпувати (mavpuvaty)

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

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Afrikaans

Noun

ape

1. plural form of aap

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Corsican

Noun

ape f

1. plural form 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)

		singular	plural
nominative		apeˣ	appeet
accusative	nom.?	apeˣ	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		appeelleˣ	appeilleˣ
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

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Pronunciation

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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

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Latin

Verb

ape

1. second-person singular present active imperative of apō

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Neapolitan

Noun

ape

1. plural form of apa

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Norwegian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aːpe/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse api.

Noun

ape

1. ape, monkey

Inflection

    Inflection of ape

	indefinite singular	definite singular	indefinite plural	definite plural
Bokmål f	ape	apa	aper	apene
Bokmål m	ape	apen	aper	apene
Nynorsk f	ape [apa]	apa	aper	apene
Nynorsk m	ape	apen	apar	apane

References

• “ape” in The Bokmål Dictionary / The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• apa (Nynorsk)

Verb

ape

1. To mimic or imitate.

Conjugation

    Conjugation of ape in Bokmål

Inflection 1

Infinitive active	ape
Infinitive passive	apes
Present active	aper
Present passive	apes
Past	apa/apet
Present participle	apende
Past participle	apa/apet
Imperative	ap

Inflection 2

Infinitive active	ape
Infinitive passive	apes
Present active	aper
Present passive	apes
Past	apte
Present participle	apende
Past participle	apt
Imperative	ap

    Conjugation of ape in Nynorsk

Inflection 1

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

Inflection 2

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

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈape]

Noun

ape f pl

1. plural form of apă