chimpanzee

English

A chimpanzee

Etymology

The first recorded use of the name chimpanzee dates to 1738. The name is derived from an unspecified Bantu language of Angola, comparable to Vili ci-mpenzi.^[1]

Pronunciation

(UK, US) IPA^(key): /tʃɪmˈpæn.zi/, /ˌtʃɪm.pənˈziː/, /ˌtʃɪm.pænˈziː/
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Noun

chimpanzee (plural chimpanzees)

A great ape of the genus Pan, native to Africa, and believed by biologists to be the closest extant relative to humans.

Synonyms

chimp

Holonyms

(individual chimpanzee): chimpkind

Derived terms

Chimpanese

Translations

ape

Afrikaans: sjimpansee
Arabic: شِمْبَانْزِي‎‎ m (šimbanzī)
Armenian: շիմպանզե (hy) (šimpanze)
Assamese: চিম্পাঞ্জী (simpañzi)
Asturian: chimpancé m, f
Azerbaijani: şimpanze
Bambara: worõ
Belarusian: шымпанзэ́ m, f (šympanzé)
Breton: chimpanze m
Burmese: ချင်ပန်ဇီမျောက် (hkyangpanji-myauk)
Catalan: ximpanzé 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, Schimpansin (de) f, Schimpansenmännchen n, Schimpansen-Männchen n, Schimpansenweibchen n, Schimpansen-Weibchen n
Greek: χιμπατζής (el) m (chimpatzís)
Hebrew: שימפנזה‎‎ (he) m (shimpanze)
Hindi: चिंपांजी (ciṁpāṁjī)
Hungarian: csimpánz (hu)
Icelandic: simpansi (is) m
Ido: chimpanzeo (io)
Indonesian: simpanse (id)
Irish: simpeansaí m
Italian: scimpanzé (it) m
Japanese: チンパンジー (ja) (chinpanjī), 黒猩々 (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
Malay: cimpanzi
Manx: chimpansee
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
Romanian: cimpanzeu (ro) m
Russian: шимпанзе́ (ru) m, f (šimpanzé)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: шимпанза f

Roman: čimpanza (sh) f
Slovak: šimpanz (sk) m
Slovene: šimpanz (sl) m
Somali: korow
Spanish: chimpancé (es) m
Swahili: sokwe mtu
Swedish: schimpans (sv) c
Sylheti: ꠌꠤꠝ꠆ꠙꠣꠘ꠆ꠎꠤ (simfanzi)
Tajik: шимпанзе (šimpanze)
Thai: ลิงชิมแปนซี (ling chim-bpɛɛn-sii)
Turkish: şempanze (tr)
Ukrainian: шимпанзе́ m, f (šympanzé)
Vietnamese: tinh tinh
Welsh: tsimpansî m

References

↑ “chimpanzee” in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

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[1] “chimpanzee” in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.