chimpanzee

chimpanzee

English

A chimpanzee

Alternative forms

• japanzee (obsolete)

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): /t͡ʃɪmˈpæn.zi/, /ˌt͡ʃɪm.pənˈziː/, /ˌt͡ʃɪm.pænˈziː/

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Noun

chimpanzee (plural chimpanzees)

1. Pan troglodytes, a species of great ape in the genus Pan, native to Africa, and believed by biologists to be the closest extant relative to humans along with the bonobo.

   Synonym: chimp

   Hyponyms: blackback, silverback

   Holonym: chimpkind

2. (broadly) A member of the genus Pan, including the bonobo which is also known as the pygmy chimpanzee.

Derived terms

• antichimpanzee
• central chimpanzee
• chimp
• Chimpanese
• chimpanzeelike
• chimpanzoid
• chuman
• dwarf chimpanzee
• humanzee
• manpanzee
• pygmy chimpanzee
• Trumpanzee

 

Descendants

• Translingual: ChHV

Translations

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Afrikaans: sjimpansee Arabic: شِمْبَانْزِي‎ m (šimbanzī) Armenian: շիմպանզե (hy) (šimpanze) Assamese: চিম্পাঞ্জী (simpañzi) Asturian: chimpancé (ast) m or f Azerbaijani: şimpanze Bambara: worõ 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, 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 ? (cimpāñjī), चिंपाजी (hi) m (cimpājī) 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 Macedonian: шимпанзо n (šimpanzo) Malay: cimpanzi Malayalam: ചിമ്പാൻസി (cimpāṉsi) Manx: çhimpansee m, apag ghooinoil f 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) 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) 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 ?

References

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