guenon

English

A guenon

Etymology

Borrowed from French guenon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡəˈnoʊn/, /ˈɡwɛnən/

Noun

guenon (plural guenons)

1. An Old World monkey of the genus Cercopithecus.

Translations

monkey of the genus Cercopithecus

• Bulgarian: гвенон m (gvenon), морска котка f (morska kotka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 長尾猴／长尾猴 (zh), 长尾猴 (zh) (chángwěihóu)

• Czech: kočkodan (cs) m
• Dutch: meerkat (nl)
• Esperanto: simiino
• Finnish: marakatti (fi)
• French: guenon (fr) f
• Galician: cercopiteco m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Meerkatze (de) f
• Italian: cercopiteco (it) m
• Japanese: オナガザル (onagazaru), 尾長猿 (おながざる, onagazaru)
• Polish: koczkodan (pl) m
• Portuguese: cercopiteco m
• Russian: марты́шка (ru) f (martýška)
• Spanish: cercopiteco m, mono del viejo mundo
• Swedish: markatta
• Ukrainian: мартишка (martyška)

See also

• guenon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cercopithecus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• Gunnoe, ungone

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French

Etymology

guen(ipe) +‎ -on

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡə.nɔ̃/

Noun

guenon f (plural guenons)

1. (obsolete) guenon
2. (female) monkey
3. hag, old bag (ugly woman)

Further reading

• “guenon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.