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Definition: Monkey |
MonkeyNoun1. Any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians). 2. One who is playfully mischievous. Verb1. Fool or play around with; "Someone tampered with the documents on my desk". 2. Do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly; "The old lady is usually mucking about in her little house". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "monkey" was first used: 1530. (references) |
Etymology: Monkey \Mon"key\, noun; plural Monkeys. [Compare to OIt. monicchio, Italian monnino, diminutive of monna an ape, also dame, mistress, contr. from madonna. See Madonna.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Satire | MONKEY, n. An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of a monkey, denotes that deceitful people will flatter you to advance their own interests. To see a dead monkey, signifies that your worst enemies will soon be removed. If a young woman dreams of a monkey, she should insist on an early marriage, as her lover will suspect unfaithfulness. For a woman to dream of feeding a monkey, denotes that she will be betrayed by a flatterer. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Monkey (A). 500. (See Marygold .) Monkey = the Devil; an imp of mischief. Hence, a meddlesome child is spoken to as "you little monkey;" and is called "a regular imp," or "imp of mischief." The allusion is to the old drawings of devils, with long tails and monkey ugliness. To get (or have) one's monkey up. To be riled. Here the allusion is also to the devil or evil spirit in man; he will be "in a devil of a temper." Even taken literally, monkeys are extremely irritable and easily provoked. Monkey in sailor language, is the vessel which contains the full allowance of grog. Halliwell (Archaic Dictionary) has- "Moncorn, `Beere corne, barley bygge, or moncorne.' "- (1552.) To suck the monkey. Sailors call the vessel which contains their full allowance of grog "a monkey." Hence, to "suck the monkey" is surreptitiously to suck liquor from a cask through a straw. Again, when the milk has been taken from a cocoanut, and rum has been substituted, "sucking the monkey" means drinking this rum. Probably "monkey" in all such cases is a corruption of moncorn (ale or beer). (See Marryat's Peter Simple.) (See Monkey Spoons.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A. The word monkey prefixed to a technical term means small, thus: monkey chute, a small chute; monkey drift, a small drift, usually driven in for prospecting purposes b. An appliance for mechanically gripping or letting go the rope in rope haulage c. A block placed between the rails on an incline to prevent cars fromrunning back. Syn:monkey chock; bobbin. (references) |
Multilingual Slang | Spanish (mico). (references) |
Slang in 1811 | MONKEY. To suck the monkey; to suck or draw wine, or any other liquor, privately out of a cask, by means of a straw, or small tube. Monkey's allowance; more kicks than halfpence. Who put that monkey on horseback without tying his legs? vulgar wit on a bad. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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A monkey is any haplorhine primate not belonging to the family Tarsiidae, Hylobatidae, Pongidae, or Hominidae. This does not correspond to any taxon; it is divided into Old World monkeys (Cercopithecidae) and New World monkeys (Callitrichidae and Cebidae), but the catarrhines include the apes as well as the Old World monkeys.
The Monkey is one of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. It is thought that each animal is associated with certain personality traits. See: Monkey (Zodiac).
See also: List of famous monkeys
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- Monkeys, Kinds of monkeys, apes, Primates, Monkey Pictures
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Monkey is the English language version of a Japanese television series based on the novel Journey to the West. It is also commonly called Monkey Magic (which is actually the title of the show's extremely catchy theme song).The original series, Saiyûki, was made by Nihon Television, and ran for two seasons of 26 episodes each. The first season ran from October 1978 to April 1979. The second season ran from November 1979 to May 1980. Both seasons had footage shot on location in northwest China and inner Mongolia.
The English-language version, Monkey, was produced by the BBC and debuted on British television screens in November 1979. It ran for 39 episodes (leaving out some episodes from the second season). The script for the dubbedbed dialogue was written by David Weir.
Monkey has also been screened in Australia and New Zealand, but not in the United States (for copyright reasons) — although Saiyûki was screened on a local Japanese-language TV station in California during the early 1980s.
Monkey is a cult favourite in the countries where it has been shown. Among the features that have contributed to its cult appeal are the catchy theme song, "Monkey Magic" (often the only thing people can remember about the series); the dubbed dialogue, spoken in a variety of over-the-top "Oriental" accents; and the fact that the young priest Tripitaka was played by a woman.
Original Chinese name Japanese name Actor English name Dub actor Xuan Zang Sanzouhoushi Masako Natsume Tripitaka Maria Wahlberg Sun Wukong Songoku Masaaki Sakai Monkey David Collings Zhu Bajie Chohakkai s1: Toshiyuki Nishida
s2: Tonpei HidariPigsy Peter Woodthorpe Sha Wujing Sagojo Shiro Kishibe Sandy Gareth Armstrong Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Monkey (television)."
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The monkey is one of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. It is thought that each animal is associated with certain personality traits.People who have this Chinese sign are:
See also: Monkey
- Jennifer Aniston, actress
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The Monkey King, Sun Wukong (孫悟空, pinyin: sun1 wu4kong1, also surn vukorn), is perhaps the most famous and beloved fictional character in all of classic Chinese literature. He is the main character of Journey to the West, a story dating back to the Tang dynasty. Through a series of audacious stunts he acquires immortality, shape-changing ability, cloud travel skills, and ownership of a handy as-you-will resizeable cudgel which can be nestled behind the ear for easy carrying or resized to tree-trunk size for pounding the sense out of dragons. Above all he has monkey chutzpah.Sun Wukong learned many of his magical tricks while serving as a disciple under the Patriarch Subodhi; it was the Patriarch who gave him the name "Wukong" ("aware of emptiness"). (The Patriarch, who by the time they parted ways was certain the monkey would come to a bad end, made him promise never to tell anyone who his teacher was.)
He is invited to the Heavenly Kingdom by the Jade Emperor in the hopes that a promotion and title will make him a little more manageable. He proves to be an incorrigible monkey, however, and soon he is scarfing down the Empress's Peaches of Immortality and popping Lord Lao Tzu's Pills of Indestructability like they were Tic Tacs. Feeling guilty, but not that guilty, he becomes the biggest headache for everybody in heaven. Only with great effort and teamwork are the eminent beings in heaven able to combine forces and stuff him into Lord Lao Tzu's eight-way trigem oven, which is hot enough to reduce anything to cinders. After a good long cook and then some, they lift the lid to peek -- and out jumps Monkey King, completely unharmed apart from some smoke in his eyes.
All other options exhausted, they finally appeal to the Buddha himself, who arrives in an instant from his temple in the West. The Buddha effortlessly defeats Monkey and places him under the mountain of the five elements. There he must remain imprisoned under the rock until he can offer to serve the future Sanzang, the T'ang Priest, who is destined to make the journey to the West to retrieve the Buddhist scriptures for China. The bodhisattva Guanyin helps Sanzang by giving him a magical headband which Sanzang puts on Monkey's head. With a special word Sanzang is able to tighten the band until Monkey cannot bear the pain. In that way he is brought to his true calling as a disciple of Buddha.
For the rest of the epic Sun Wukong faithfully helps the T'ang Priest on his journey to the west. The are joined by Sandy (Sha Wujing) and Pigsy (Zhu Bajie), two other monsters who have been tamed in advance by Guanyin and woven into Sanzang's destiny. The group gets into many scrapes and must learn many Buddhist lessons before they return safely to the T'ang empire with the treasure of the Buddhist scripture. Monkey and the monk are eventually made into buddas while the others are rewared by the udda based on their levels of enlightment.
Miscellaneous
It is believed that the character Sun Wukong was partly based on Hanuman, the "monkey god" of Hindu described in a book by Xuan Zang. He also bears some similarities to mischievous six year old boys. Sun Wukong became so well-known in China that it was once worshipped by some as a real god!Son Goku, the central character in the Japanese animation Dragon Ball, is partly based on Sun Wukong.
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Synonyms: MonkeySynonyms: imp (n), rapscallion (n), rascal (n), scalawag (n), scallywag (n), scamp (n), mess around (v), monkey around (v), muck about (v), muck around (v), potter (v), putter (v), tamper (v), tinker (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Absurdity | Vagary, tomfoolery,vagary, tomfoolery, poppycock, mummery, monkey trick, boutade, escapade. |
Amusement | Play; game, game at romps; gambol, romp, prank, antic, rig, lark, spree, skylarking, vagary, monkey trick, gambade, fredaine, escapade, echappee, bout, espieglerie; practical joke; (ridicule). |
Imbecility Folly | Trifle, drivel, radoter, dote; ramble; (madness); play the fool, play the monkey, monkey around, fool around; take leave of one's senses (insanity); not see an inch beyond one's nose; stultify oneself; talk nonsense. |
Imitation | Imitator, echo, cuckoo, parrot, ape, monkey, mocking bird, mime; copyist, copycat; plagiarist, pirate. |
Impulse | Hammer, sledge hammer, mall, maul, mallet, flail; ram, rammer; battering ram, monkey, pile-driving engine, punch, bat; cant hook; cudgel; (weapon); ax; (sharp). |
Laughingstock | Original, oddity; queer fish, odd fish; quiz, square toes; old monkey, old fogey, fogey monkey, fogy monkey; buffoon; (jester); pantomimist; (actor). |
Resentment | Put out of countenance, put out of humor; put one's monkey up, put one's back up; raise one's gorge, raise one's dander, raise one's choler; work up into a passion; make one's blood boil, make the ears tingle; throw, into a ferment, madden, drive one mad; lash into fury, lash into madness; fool to the top of one's bent; set by the ears. |
Phrase: one's blood being up, one's back being up, one's monkey being up; fervens difficili bile jecur; the gorge rising, eyes flashing fire; the blood rising, the blood boiling; haeret lateri lethalis arundo; " beware the fury of a patient man "; furor arma ministrat; ira furor brevis est; quem Jupiter vult perdere dementat prius; "What, drunk with choler? ". | |
Support | Supporter; aid; prop, stand, anvil, fulciment; cue rest, jigger; monkey; stay, shore, skid, rib, truss, bandage; sleeper; stirrup, stilts, shoe, sole, heel, splint, lap, bar, rod, boom, sprit, outrigger; ratlings. |
Ugliness | Adjective: ugly, ugly as sin, ugly as a toad, ugly as a scarecrow, ugly as a dead monkey; plain, bald (unadorned); homely; ordinary, unornamental, inartistic; unsightly, unseemly, uncomely, unlovely; unshapely; sightless, seemless; not fit to be seen; |
Eyesore, object, witch, hag, figure, sight, fright; monster; dog, woofer, pig; octopus, specter, scarecrow, harridan, satyr, toad, monkey, baboon, Caliban, Aesop, "monstrum horrendum informe ingens cui lumen ademptum". | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | You don't know how lucky you are being a monkey. Because consciousness is a terrible curse (Being John Malkovich; writing credit: Charlie Kaufman) Could be a monkey or an orangutan (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial; writing credit: Ethan Coen) Nice monkey suit (Who Framed Roger Rabbit; writing credit: Gary K. Wolf; Jeffrey Price) That's all I need: a monkey on my back (Dinosaur; writing credit: Walon Green; Thom Enriquez) He was embezzling, skimming off the top, robbing you blind, spanking the monkey. Oh wait, that's something else (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro) | |
Lyrics | Why can't you set your monkey free (Monkey; performing artist: George Michael) If you a monkey on a string (What Would You Say; performing artist: Dave Matthews Band) MONKEY MEN ALL (Jocko Homo; performing artist: Devo) I'm going down, going down, like a monkey, ooh but it's alright (Tonight, Tonight, Tonight; performing artist: Genesis) Plus tricks for that music plus the monkey bit. (Hip-Hop Hooray; performing artist: Naughty By Nature) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Monkey in the Master's Eye (1972) Little Red Monkey (1955) Monkey Business (1952) The Red-Headed Monkey (1950) Hold That Monkey (1950) | |
Song Titles | Monkey (performing artist: George Michael) One Monkey Don't Stop No Show (performing artist: Honey Cone) Don't Monkey With Tarzan (performing artist: Laika & The Cosmonauts) Monkey Motel (performing artist: Scott Laningham) The Monkey Time (performing artist: Major Lance) | |
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 | Photomicrograph of mediastinal lymph node from a Cynomolgus monkey ( Macaca fascicularis ) with inhalation anthrax, demonstrating severe hemorrhagic necrosis. Giemsa stain, Mag. 20x. Credit: CDC. |  | Histopathology of chronic inflammatory reaction to Schistosoma mansoni antigen in monkey infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Skin. Credit: CDC. |
 | Sam the Monkey After His Ride in the Little Joe 2 Spacecraft. Credit: NASA. |  | A monkey helping preen a donkey in the Galapagos Islands. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Philip Crosby with a pet monkey On the MARINDUQUE. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | The O'Clock family cavorting with the dolphins at Monkey Mia near Shark Bay. These dolphin are wild and associate with humans with no training or coercion (except food.). Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Pirkko O'Clock (ex-NOAA Corps officer) and tourists cavorting with the dolphins at Monkey Mia near Shark Bay. These dolphin are wild and associate with humans with no training or coercion (except food.). Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Commander Bill O'Clock feeding the dolphin at Monkey Mia near Shark Bay. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Mimulus douglasii, or commonly known as Douglas' Monkey Flower. Credit: Peter Zika. |  | Mimulus kelloggii, or commonly known as Kellogg's Monkey Flower. Credit: Russ Holmes. |
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| "Angry Monkey" by Nico Van Geldere Commentary: "Sri Lankan' monkey screeming to the lens..." | "Monkey" by PKremer Commentary: "Small monkey." |
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| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Annoyed monkey screaming. | | Monkey whimpering. |
| Monkey scream. | ||
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Alexandre Dumas | My father was a Creole, his father a Negro, and his father a monkey; my family, it seems begins where yours left off. |
W. S. Gilbert | Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved. |
W. Winwood Reade | Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness. |
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Hiawatha's Photographing | Carroll, Lewis | All the while that she was sitting, Still the lady chattered, chattered, Like a monkey in the forest |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The eyes were melancholy as those of a monkey. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | But the greatest danger I ever underwent in that kingdom was from a monkey, who belonged to one of the clerks of the kitchen |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Situation - Ebola-Reston virus was identified in a monkey export facility in the Philippines. (references) | |
Ebola-Reston that appeared in a primate research facility in Virginia, may have been transmitted from monkey to monkey through the air in the facility. (references) | ||
In 1989, a new Ebola virus subtype was identified in imported cynomolgous macaques (an Asiatic monkey, Macacca fascicularis) during an outbreak in a primate quarantine facility in the United States. (references) | ||
Economic History | Ukraine | The best prospects for U.S. companies include: pipeline construction equipment (compressors and pumps for pipeline applications+ADs- gas transmission systems+ADs- gas pipeline leaks control systems+ADs- gas pipe fittings and applications+ADs- welding machines, cranes, pipe-cleaning equipment, and line trend machines)+ADs- advanced and highly efficient oil and gas exploration and drilling equipment and technologies (pontoons supported on columns, hoisting cranes, drilling rigs, bits, electric motors, winch rollers, rotary tables, sheds, hoisting blocks, monkey boards, crown blocks, gin holes, shackles, cutting, roller and diamond bits, casing sleeves, chemicals, stimulation technologies, modern 3-D seismic, particularly for offshore projects where Ukrainian technology is very limited)+ADs- equipment for atmospheric-vacuum oil refining+ADs- modernization and increasing of hydro-cracking and catalytic cracking capacities+ADs- units for catalytic transformation of distillates+ADs- industrial automation, control and monitoring systems for refineries, gas processing and petrochemical plants+ADs- desulfurization and quality control facilities+ADs- safety systems+ADs- fuel dispensers, fuel storage tanks, fuel level monitoring and accounting systems. (references) |
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| "Monkey" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.44% of the time. "Monkey" is used about 561 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.44% | 541 | 11,416 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.96% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.89% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.71% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 561 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Grease Monkey Holding Corporation |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "monkey": african green monkey ♦ Bonnet monkey ♦ brass monkey ♦ capuchin monkey ♦ capucine monkey ♦ cheeky monkey ♦ code monkey ♦ colobus monkey ♦ croo monkey ♦ crown monkey ♦ Diana monkey ♦ fogy monkey ♦ grease monkey ♦ green monkey ♦ green monkey disease ♦ guenon monkey ♦ howler monkey ♦ howling monkey ♦ hussar monkey ♦ King monkey ♦ lion monkey ♦ little bare monkey ♦ make a monkey of smb. ♦ Mason-Pfizer Monkey Virus ♦ monkey about ♦ monkey about with ♦ monkey around ♦ monkey around with ♦ monkey block ♦ monkey board ♦ monkey boat ♦ monkey bread ♦ monkey bridge ♦ monkey business ♦ monkey chatter ♦ Monkey Diseases ♦ monkey dog ♦ monkey face ♦ monkey fermale ♦ monkey flower ♦ monkey gaff ♦ monkey house ♦ monkey jacket ♦ monkey ladder ♦ monkey nut ♦ monkey pinscher ♦ monkey pod ♦ monkey puzzle ♦ monkey puzzle tree ♦ monkey rail ♦ monkey shine ♦ monkey spanner ♦ monkey suit ♦ monkey tranquilizer ♦ monkey trick ♦ monkey tricks ♦ monkey up ♦ monkey wheel ♦ monkey with ♦ monkey with smth. ♦ monkey wrench ♦ monkey wretch ♦ moor monkey ♦ negro monkey ♦ new world monkey ♦ night monkey ♦ old World monkey ♦ owl monkey ♦ Pluto monkey ♦ powder monkey ♦ proboscis monkey ♦ rhesus monkey ♦ sacred monkey ♦ scratch monkey ♦ sloth monkey ♦ spider monkey ♦ squirrel monkey ♦ tape monkey ♦ titi monkey ♦ to monkey around with ♦ To monkey with ♦ ugly as a dead monkey ♦ ventriloquist monkey ♦ vervet monkey ♦ water monkey ♦ widow monkey ♦ winking monkey ♦ woolly monkey ♦ Yaba Monkey Tumor Virus. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "monkey": monkey-boy, Monkey-bread, monkey-bread tree, monkey-clever, monkey-climb, Monkey-cup, monkey-cups, monkey-eating, monkey-engine, monkey-fashion, monkey-features, monkey-glander, monkey-house, monkey-jar, monkey-like, monkey-nimble, monkey-nut, monkey-nuts, monkey-plainness, Monkey-pot, monkey-puzzle, monkey-puzzle tree, monkey-sized, monkey-wrench. | |
Ending with "monkey": leaf-monkey. | |
Containing "monkey": Infinite-Monkey Theorem. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
monkey | 8,101 | monkey business | 208 |
monkey pox | 2,954 | the curse of monkey island | 189 |
monkey picture | 1,092 | monkey trunk | 189 |
sea monkey | 932 | baby monkey | 183 |
monkey island | 899 | monkey wild | 180 |
bashful monkey | 598 | maze monkey | 175 |
spider monkey | 505 | hockey monkey | 175 |
spank the monkey | 481 | cartoon monkey picture | 167 |
monkey for sale | 437 | capuchin monkey | 164 |
pink monkey | 420 | funny monkey | 158 |
stuffed monkey | 369 | 12 monkey | 156 |
pet monkey | 328 | monkey picture pox | 156 |
monkey sex | 284 | funky monkey | 154 |
sock monkey | 258 | brass monkey | 151 |
monkey pic | 244 | monkey bar | 151 |
cartoon monkey | 243 | escape from monkey island walk through | 150 |
escape from monkey island | 236 | squirrel monkey | 147 |
monkey pocks | 226 | grease monkey | 141 |
bread monkey | 225 | monkey photo | 134 |
funny monkey picture | 219 | monkey t shirt | 129 |
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| Language | Translations for "monkey"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | aap (ape). (various references) | |
Albanian | majmun (ape, jocko, marmoset). (various references) | |
Arabic | قرد (ape, jackanapes, simian), ولد مؤذي (ragamuffin), سعدان, سخر (befool, chip, debunk, deride, fleer, guy, jape, jeer, kid, lampoon, laugh at, make a game of, make fun of, mimic, mock, override, persiflage, pillory, poke fun, pooh pooh, quip, quiz, rally, rib, ridicule, satirize, scoff, send up, smile, snap, sneer, snigger, taunt, tee-hee, twit), النسناس, أنثى القرد. (various references) | |
Asturian | monu. (various references) | |
Aymara | k'usillo. (various references) | |
Basque | tximino. (various references) | |
Bemba | kolwe. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | яд (Dander, dudgeon, fume, grizzle, grudge, resentment, spite, vexation, wrath), гняв (anger, dudgeon, exasperation, furor, heat, ire, rage, wax, wrath), маймуна (ape, ape-man, jackanapes), бърникам (fool around with, fumble, meddle, mess about, mess around, tamper, tinker), бабка, правя шеги (jolly), правя маймунджилъци, подражавам (copy, counterfeit, echo, imitate), подигравам се на (dig, joke, laugh at, make fun of, poke fun at, taunt), петстотин лири стерлинги, петстотин долара, пакостник (imp, mischievous, naughty, rascal, rogue, sod, varmint), падаща тежест на чук, пилотонабивачка (pile driver), играя си (dally, fidget, fool with, meddle, mess about, mess around, play about, play around). (various references) | |
Catalan | simi (ape). (various references) | |
Cebuano | amo. (various references) | |
Chamorro | macheng. (various references) | |
Chinese | 猴子 . (various references) | |
Cornish | sym. (various references) | |
Czech | opice (ape, Gibbon). (various references) | |
Danish | abe (ape). (various references) | |
Dutch | aap (ape). (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | machi. (various references) | |
Esperanto | simio (ape). (various references) | |
Faeroese | apa (ape). (various references) | |
Farsi | میمون (Ape, Propitious, Pygmy, Simian), تقلیددراوردن (Mime, Pantomime), شیطنت کردن , بوزینه (Ape, Jackanapes, Simian). (various references) | |
Finnish | apina (ape). (various references) | |
French | singe. (various references) | |
Frisian | aap. (various references) | |
German | Affe (ape, simian). (various references) | |
Greek | μαϊμού (ape). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | majmun (ape). (various references) | |
Hebrew | קוף (ape, simian). (various references) | |
Hungarian | majom (ape, dandified young man, nerd, nurd, simian), sulyok (bat, battledore, beetle, dolly, mall, mallet, maul, ram), cölöpverő kos (pile hammer), 500 font, 500 dollár. (various references) | |
Icelandic | api (ape). (various references) | |
Indonesian | monyet (jocko), kera (ape, chimpanzee). (various references) | |
Irish | moncaí (ape), Úpa (ape). (various references) | |
Italian | scimmia (ape). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 西遊記 (Journey to the West), 猿 , 猿 , モロッコ革 (Mongol, mongolism, monk, monkey banana, monkey business, monkey pox, monkey spanner, monkey wrench, monsoon, morocco leather, my dear), 山猿 (boor, bumpkin). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | モンキー , さる (a certain, a particular, ninth sign of Chinese zodiac, to go away, to leave), せいゆうき (Journey to the West), やまざる (boor, bumpkin). (various references) | |
Kongo | nkima. (various references) | |
Korean | 원숭이 (Ape, Monkeys). (various references) | |
Lombard | simmia (ape). (various references) | |
Macedonian | majmun. (various references) | |
Malay | kera (ape). (various references) | |
Manx | queig cheead punt (five hundred pounds), cloie (act, boil, bubble, charade, enact, event, extemporise, game, match, perform, performance, play, represent, skylark, sport). (various references) | |
Maya | maax (spider monkey), baadz (howler monkey). (various references) | |
Mohawk | katsi'nonhtaks. (various references) | |
Norwegian | skiftenøkkel (monkey-wrench, shifting spanner). (various references) | |
Occitan | monina, monard. (various references) | |
Papago | chahngo. (various references) | |
Papiamen | makaku (ape), makako (ape). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | onkeymay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | macaco (ape, hoist, jack, jackanapes, macaco, macaque, simian), símio (ape, simian). (various references) | |
Provencal | monard. (various references) | |
Romanian | maimuţã (ape, jackanape), un drac şi jumãtate, împieliţat (mischief). (various references) | |
Romansch | schimgia. (various references) | |
Romany | shebètsi. (various references) | |
Ruanda | makake. (various references) | |
Russian | обезьяна (ape, simian). (various references) | |
Samoan | manuki. (various references) | |
Sepedi | kgabo. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | malj (beetle, mallet, maul), majmun (ape, jackanapes, simian), vragolan (imp, niggler, wag), petljati (putter, tinker), igrati se (fool around, niggle, play, toy), grba (hump, humpback, hunch, hunchback), čačkati (pick, tamper), šaliti se (droll, fool, fool around, jest, joke, kid, lark, niggle, trifle), 500 funti. (various references) | |
Shona | tsoko (vervet monkey), dongonda (samango monkey), bhobhojani (monkey wrench). (various references) | |
Spanish | mono (ape, boiler suit, cute, Dandy, dinky, dungarees, lovely, mimic, nice, nice-looking, overall, overalls, rompers). (various references) | |
Sranan | yapi (ape), keskesi (ape). (various references) | |
Swahili | tumbili (ape). (various references) | |
Swazi | ín-gobíyane. (various references) | |
Swedish | apa (ape, bitch, cow, Jocko, simian), apekatt. (various references) | |
Tagalog | unggóy (ape). (various references) | |
Thai | ช่างซ่อม (grease monkey, repairman). (various references) | |
Turkish | maymun (ape, apish, jackanapes, simian). (various references) | |
Turkmen | maяmyn (ape). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | кривляка (ape, mugger), мавпа (ape, marmoset, puggy, simian), жартувати (badinage, banter, chaff, droll, fun, gag, jape, jest, joke, jolly, lark, lark around, play, trifle, yak), пустун (hellion, imp, puck, rogue, urchin, wag), передражнювати (imitate, mimic, mock). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thằng ranh. (various references) | |
Welsh | mwnci, epa (ape), âb (ape). (various references) | |
Yucatec | tuucha (ape). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | cercops, clura, simia, simias. (various references) |
| Arabic | 500-Modern | maimun. (various references) |
| Dutch | 700-Modern | meerkat. ( |
