aye-aye

Etymology


From, from (also ,  or  in dialect), supposedly imitative of the animal's cry. However, this is doubted by Simons and Myers (2001) who note that the animal does not emit such a sound. They suggest a derivation from 🇨🇬, used by the Malagasy people to avoid naming the animal, which they fear.

Noun

 * 1) The lemur, a solitary nocturnal quadruped found in Madagascar and remarkable for its long fingers, sharp nails, and rodent-like incisor teeth.

Translations

 * Arabic: آيْآي
 * Armenian: այ-այ
 * Azerbaijani: əlayaqlılar
 * Basque: aie-aie
 * Bulgarian: ай-а́й
 * Catalan: ai-ai
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 指猴
 * Czech: ksukol ocasatý
 * Danish: aye aye
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: fingrobesto
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician: aie aie
 * Georgian: ხელფეხა
 * German: ,
 * Greek: άι-άι
 * Hebrew: איי איי
 * Hungarian: aje-aje, véznaujjú maki
 * Indonesian: aye-aye
 * Irish: aidhe-aidhe
 * Italian: aié-aié, aye-aye, chiromio
 * Japanese:, 指猿
 * Kazakh: ай-ай
 * Korean: 아이아이
 * Latvian: slaidpirkstainis
 * Lithuanian: laibapirštiniai, laibapirštis
 * Malagasy:
 * Malayalam: അയ്-അയ്
 * Marathi: आय-आय
 * Navajo: bílaneezii
 * Norwegian: fingerdyr
 * Persian: آی-آی
 * Polish: palczak, palczak madagaskarski
 * Portuguese: aie-aie
 * Punjabi: ਆਏ-ਆਏ
 * Romanian:, aye-aye
 * Russian: ,
 * Scots: aye-aye
 * Serbo-Croatian: aj-aj, aye-aye, madagaskarski prstaš
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: fingerdjur
 * Thai: อาย-อาย
 * Turkish: ay-ay
 * Udmurt: ай-ай
 * Ukrainian: ай-а́й
 * Uzbek: aye-aye
 * Vietnamese: khỉ aye-aye
 * Western Panjabi: آئی-آئی