English
Etymology
The first recorded use of the name chimpanzee dates to 1738.
The name is derived from an unspecified Bantu language of Angola (compare Vili ci-mpenzi), probably brought to the English language via French chimpanzé.[1]
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /t͡ʃɪmˈpæn.zi/, /ˌt͡ʃɪm.pənˈziː/, /ˌt͡ʃɪm.pænˈziː/
Noun
chimpanzee (plural chimpanzees)
- Pan troglodytes, a species of great ape native to the savannas and forests of Africa, and believed by biologists to be the closest extant relative to humans along with the bonobo.
- Synonym: chimp
- Hyponyms: blackback, silverback
- Holonym: chimpkind
- (loosely) A member of the genus Pan, including the bonobo which was formerly known as the pygmy chimpanzee.
Derived terms
Translations
any hominid of the genus Pan
- Afrikaans: sjimpansee
- Arabic: شِمْبَانْزِي m (šimbanzī)
- Armenian: շիմպանզե (hy) (šimpanze)
- Assamese: চিম্পাঞ্জী (simpañzi)
- Asturian: chimpancé (ast) m or f
- Azerbaijani: şimpanze
- Bambara: worõ
- Basque: txinpantze
- Belarusian: шымпанзэ́ m or f (šympanzé)
- Breton: chimpanze m
- Burmese: ချင်ပန်ဇီမျောက် (hkyangpanji-myauk)
- Catalan: ximpanzé (ca) m
- Cherokee: ᏥᎻᏆ̃ᏂᏏᎢ (tsimiquãnisii), ᎠᏓᎵᏍᎩᏱᏍᎩ ᎡᏆ (adalisgiyisgi equa)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 黑猩猩 (zh) (hēixīngxing)
- Czech: šimpanz (cs) m
- Danish: chimpanse (da) c
- Dutch: chimpansee (nl) m
- Esperanto: ĉimpanzo
- Estonian: šimpans
- Faroese: sjimpansa f
- Finnish: simpanssi (fi)
- French: chimpanzé (fr) m
- Galician: chimpancé
- Georgian: შიმპანზე (šimṗanze)
- German: Schimpanse (de) m; (♂) Schimpansenmännchen n, Schimpansen-Männchen n; (♀) Schimpansin (de) f, Schimpansenweibchen n, Schimpansen-Weibchen n
- Greek: χιμπατζής (el) m (chimpatzís)
- Hebrew: שימפנזה (he) m (shimpanze)
- Hindi: चिंपांजी ? (cimpāñjī), चिंपाजी (hi) m (cimpājī)
- Hungarian: csimpánz (hu)
- Icelandic: simpansi (is) m
- Ido: chimpanzeo (io)
- Indonesian: simpanse (id)
- Ingrian: šimpanze
- Irish: simpeansaí m
- Italian: scimpanzé (it) m
- Japanese: チンパンジー (ja) (chinpanjī), 黒猩々 (ja) (くろしょうじょう, kuroshōjō)
- Khmer: ស្វាឳ (svaa ’ǝv), សត្វស្វាឪ (sat svaa ’ǝv)
- Kongo: kimpenzi
- Korean: 침팬지 (ko) (chimpaenji)
- Lao: ລີງຊິມແພນຊີ (lo) (līng sim phǣn sī)
- Latvian: šimpanze f
- Lingala: mokómbósó
- Lithuanian: šimpanzė f
- Macedonian: шимпанзо n (šimpanzo)
- Malay: cimpanzi
- Malayalam: ചിമ്പാൻസി (cimpāṉsi)
- Manx: çhimpansee m, apag ghooinoil f
- Marathi: चिंपांझी m (cimpāñjhī)
- Mongolian: шимпанзе (šimpanze)
- Navajo: mágíshzhin
- Northern Sami: šimpánsa
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: sjimpanse m
- Nynorsk: sjimpanse m
- Persian: شمپانزه (fa) (šampânze)
- Polish: szympans (pl) m
- Portuguese: chimpanzé (pt) m
- Punjabi: ਚਿਪਾਂਜ਼ੀ (cipā̃zī), ਚਿੰਪੈਂਜ਼ੀ m (cimpaĩzī)
- Romanian: cimpanzeu (ro) m
- Russian: шимпанзе́ (ru) m or f (šimpanzé)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: чимпа̀нза f (Croatian), шимпа̀нза f (Bosnian, Serbian)
- Roman: čimpànza (sh) f (Croatian), šimpànza f (Bosnian, Serbian)
- Slovak: šimpanz (sk) m
- Slovene: šimpanz (sl) m
- Somali: korow
- Spanish: chimpancé (es) m
- Swahili: sokwe (sw), sokwe mtu
- Swedish: schimpans (sv) c
- Sylheti: ꠌꠤꠝ꠆ꠙꠣꠘ꠆ꠎꠤ (simfanzi)
- Tagalog: tsimpansi
- Tajik: шимпанзе (šimpanze)
- Thai: ลิงชิมแปนซี (ling chim-bpɛɛn-sii)
- Turkish: şempanze (tr)
- Ukrainian: шимпанзе́ m or f (šympanzé)
- Vietnamese: tinh tinh
- Welsh: tsimpansî m
- Western Panjabi: عام چمپینزی ? (ʻām cmpenzī)
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