monkey

Etymology
. May be derived from, or borrowed from , the name of the son of Martin the Ape in Reynard the Fox (which may represent an unattested colloquial , ), itself of uncertain origin. Possibly derived from a term represented by Late   or earlier 🇨🇬, originally, the name of a monkey in Li Dis d'Entendement. Compare also 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬. The French terms may have been borrowed from, from , itself a shortening of , variant of , from ). However, 🇨🇬 may alternatively be unrelated to the other terms, instead being a borrowing of Early.

Noun

 * 1)  A member of the clade  other than those in the clade  containing apes, generally (but not universally) distinguished by small size, tails, and cheek pouches.
 * 2)  Any simian primate other than hominids, any monkey or ape.
 * 3)  A human considered to resemble monkeys in some way, including:
 * 4)  A naughty or mischievous person, especially a child.
 * 5)  The person in the motorcycle sidecar in sidecar racing.
 * : a person of minimal intelligence.
 * : an unattractive person, especially one whose face supposedly resembles a monkey's.
 * : a person dancing to another's tune, a person controlled or directed by another.
 * 1)  A menial employee who does a repetitive job supposedly requiring minimal intelligence.
 * 2)  A black person.
 * 3)  A penis.
 * 4)  A small trading vessel of the sixteenth century.
 * 5)  The vessel in which a mess receives its full allowance of grog.
 * 6) The weight of a pile driver or drop hammer.
 * 7) A fluid consisting of hydrochloric acid and zinc, used in the process of soldering.
 * , especially 500 pounds sterling or  500 dollars.
 * 1)  A person's temper, said to be "up" when they are angry.
 * 2)  A drug habit; an addiction; a compulsion.
 * 3) * 1938,, "Argot of the Underworld Drug Addict", , Vol. 29, Issue 2 (July-August):
 * Monkey: a habit, as in "I have a monkey on my back." Usually used when one is sick from lack of drugs.
 * 1)  A dance popularized by  in 1963, now usually only its upper-body dance move involving exaggerated drumming motions.
 * 2) * 1963,, "" (video):
 * Do the Monkey, yeah, Do the Monkey, yeah, Ah, twist them hips, Let your backbone slip, Now move your feet, Get on the beat...
 * 1)  A person's temper, said to be "up" when they are angry.
 * 2)  A drug habit; an addiction; a compulsion.
 * 3) * 1938,, "Argot of the Underworld Drug Addict", , Vol. 29, Issue 2 (July-August):
 * Monkey: a habit, as in "I have a monkey on my back." Usually used when one is sick from lack of drugs.
 * 1)  A dance popularized by  in 1963, now usually only its upper-body dance move involving exaggerated drumming motions.
 * 2) * 1963,, "" (video):
 * Do the Monkey, yeah, Do the Monkey, yeah, Ah, twist them hips, Let your backbone slip, Now move your feet, Get on the beat...
 * Monkey: a habit, as in "I have a monkey on my back." Usually used when one is sick from lack of drugs.
 * 1)  A dance popularized by  in 1963, now usually only its upper-body dance move involving exaggerated drumming motions.
 * 2) * 1963,, "" (video):
 * Do the Monkey, yeah, Do the Monkey, yeah, Ah, twist them hips, Let your backbone slip, Now move your feet, Get on the beat...
 * 1)  A dance popularized by  in 1963, now usually only its upper-body dance move involving exaggerated drumming motions.
 * 2) * 1963,, "" (video):
 * Do the Monkey, yeah, Do the Monkey, yeah, Ah, twist them hips, Let your backbone slip, Now move your feet, Get on the beat...

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Ahom: 𑜎𑜢𑜂𑜫
 * Albanian:
 * Alemannic German: aff
 * Amharic: ዝንጀሮ
 * Arabic: سَعْدَان, حِبْن, نِسْنَاس, مَيْمُون,
 * Egyptian: نسناس
 * Gulf Arabic: قرد, سبال
 * Hijazi Arabic: قرد, نسناس, سعدان
 * Iraqi Arabic: شادي
 * Moroccan Arabic: قرد
 * San'ani Arabic: ربح
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: maimun
 * Assamese: বান্দৰ
 * Asturian: ,
 * Avar: маймалак
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: маймыл
 * Basque:
 * Bau Bidayuh: oyung
 * Belarusian:
 * Bengali:
 * Bikol Central:
 * Bikol Legazpi:
 * Bikol Naga: ,
 * Bole: bido
 * Bouyei: lingz, duezlingz
 * Brunei Malay: ambuk
 * Bulgarian:, майму́н
 * Burmese:
 * Canela: cukôj
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: amo
 * Central Melanau: kuyad
 * Chamicuro: katujkana
 * Chechen: маймал
 * Cherokee: ᎠᏓᎴᏍᎩᏱᏍᎩ, ᏓᎴᏍᎩᏍᎩ
 * Chickasaw: hattak shawi'
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 馬騮, 猴子
 * Dungan: ху, хур
 * Eastern Min: 猴
 * Gan: 猴子
 * Hakka: 猴仔, 猴哥
 * Hokkien:, 猴仔, 老猴, 猴山, , 魎哀
 * Jin: 毛猴
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Northern Min: 猴屄, 猴
 * Wu: 活猻
 * Xiang: 猴子
 * Chukchi: маӈкы
 * Chuvash: упӑте
 * Classical Nahuatl: ozomahtli, cuauhchīmal
 * Cornish: sim
 * Crimean Tatar: şamek
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Eastern Lawa: เฟือะ
 * Erzya: обезьган
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: pärdik,
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Gagauz: maymun
 * Galician:, simio
 * Georgian:
 * German: ,
 * Gondi: కోవె
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: πίθηκος
 * Greenlandic:
 * Guaraní: ka'i
 * Gujarati: વાનર, વાંદરું
 * Haitian Creole: makak
 * Hausa: ,
 * Hawaiian: keko
 * Hebrew:
 * Higaonon: amu
 * Hindi: or, , , ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Hunsrik: Aff
 * Icelandic:
 * Ilocano: bakes
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Interlingua: simia
 * Irish: moncaí
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kanakanabu: ngʉkau
 * Karachay-Balkar: маймул
 * Kashmiri: وانٛدُر
 * Kazakh: маймыл
 * Khakas: сараамӌын
 * Khmer:
 * Khün: ᩃᩥ᩠ᨦ
 * Konkani: मांकड
 * Korean:
 * Kumyk: маймун
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: مەیمون
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:, мечин
 * Ladino:
 * Latin: maymona
 * Lakota: šúŋka wičháša
 * Lao:
 * Latin:, simius,
 * Latvian: pērtiķis, mērkaķis
 * Lezgi: маймун
 * Lingala: mpunga, makako
 * Lisu: ꓚꓬꓹ ꓟꓬꓱꓼ, ꓟꓬꓱꓼ, ꓚꓬꓹ ꓟꓲꓼ
 * Lithuanian:
 * Low German:
 * Dutch Low Saxon: aop
 * German Low German:, , Aapkatt, Oopkatt
 * Lü: ᦟᦲᧂ
 * Luganda: nkima
 * Luhya: ekhima
 * Luo: onger
 * Macedonian: мајмун
 * Maguindanao: amo, ubal
 * Malagasy:
 * Malay:, , cewe kerek,
 * Malayalam: കുരങ്ങന്,
 * Maltese: xadin, xadina, kitmejmun, gitmejmun
 * Manchu: ᠪᠣᠨᡳᡠ, ᠮᠣᠨᡳᠣ
 * Manx: apag
 * Maori: hako, maki, makimaki
 * Maranao: amo', obal
 * Marathi: माकड, वानर
 * Mbyá Guaraní: ka'i
 * Mon:
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:, опица , јопац
 * Mongolian: ᠰᠠᠷᠮᠠᠭᠴᠢᠨ
 * Nahuatl:
 * Central: ozomahtli
 * Classical: ozomahtli
 * Nanai: монён
 * Navajo: mágí, mągí
 * Neapolitan: scigna
 * Nivkh: мем, обезьяна
 * Nogai: мешин
 * Norman: marmoûset, sînge
 * North Frisian: ååwe;  aab
 * Northern Thai: ᩃᩥ᩠ᨦ
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, apekatt
 * Nynorsk: ape, apekatt
 * Nuer: gɔɔk
 * Nyar Kur: ฮนูย
 * O'odham: chahngo
 * Occitan: ,
 * Odia:
 * Old East Slavic: мамона, мамонь, обезьꙗна
 * Old English: apa
 * Old Norse: api
 * Ottoman Turkish: میمون
 * Pali: vānara
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:, ,
 * Piedmontese: sumia
 * Pipil: usumati
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Punjabi: ਬੰਦਰ
 * Quechua: k'usillu
 * Romanian:, simie
 * Russian:
 * Saek: ลิ๊ง
 * Sanskrit: ,
 * Sardinian: moninca
 * Saterland Frisian: Oape
 * Scottish Gaelic: muncaidh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ма̀јмун
 * Roman:,  ,
 * Shan:
 * Sinhalese:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: nałpa
 * Southern Altai: мечин
 * Spanish:, ,  ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Sylheti: ꠛꠣꠘ꠆ꠖꠞ
 * Tabaru: mia
 * Tagal Murut: tanduoi, jabulou
 * Tagalog:, tsonggo
 * Tai Dam: ꪩꪲꪉ
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar:, маймул
 * Tausug: amu
 * Telugu: ,
 * Ternate: mia
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: སྤྲེའུ
 * Tigrinya: ህበይ
 * Tocharian B: mokoṃśka, mokoṃśke
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: maýmyn
 * Tuvan: сарбашкын
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: بندر, وانر, کپی
 * Uyghur:
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Walloon: ,
 * Welsh:
 * West Coast Bajau: rungui, mook, kuya
 * Western Bukidnon Manobo: uval
 * Western Lawa: เฟือะ
 * White Hmong: liab
 * Wolof:
 * Yakut: эбисийээнэ
 * Yiddish: מאַלפּע
 * Yoruba: ọ̀bọ
 * Yucatec Maya: maʼax
 * Zhuang: lingz, maxlaeuz, duzlingz
 * Zulgo-Gemzek: ŋgìlìŋ


 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 馬騮
 * Hakka: 猴哥仔, 細猴仔, 野猴仔
 * Hokkien: ,
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Dutch:, brutale aap
 * Esperanto: infanaĉo,
 * Finnish:
 * Macedonian: мајмунче
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Slovene: afna
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh:

Verb

 * 1)  To meddle; to mess (with).
 * 2)  To mimic; to ape.
 * 1)  To mimic; to ape.
 * 1)  To mimic; to ape.
 * 1)  To mimic; to ape.

Translations

 * Finnish:, näpelöidä
 * Russian: