ape

See also: Ape, APE, ápe, åpe, apé, apê, apë, and a pé

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

ape

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

enPR: āp, IPA^(key): /eɪp/
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -eɪp

Etymology 1

From Middle English ape, from Old English apa (“ape, monkey”), from Proto-West Germanic *apō, from Proto-Germanic *apô (“monkey, ape”), possibly derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep- (“water”), compare Proto-Celtic *abū (“river”), if the word originally referred to a "water sprite". Traditionally assumed to be an ancient loanword instead, ultimately probably from an unidentified non-Indo-European language of regions in Africa or Asia where monkeys are native. Cognate with Scots aip (“ape”), West Frisian aap (“ape”), Dutch aap (“monkey, ape”), Low German Ape (“ape”), German Affe (“monkey, ape”), Swedish apa (“monkey, ape”), Icelandic api (“ape”).

Noun

ape (plural apes)

A primate of the clade Hominoidea, generally larger than monkeys and distinguished from them by having no tail.
- 1528 October 12 (Gregorian calendar), William Tyndale, “William Tyndale other wise Called William Hychins vnto the Reader”, in The Obediẽce of a Christen Man […], [Antwerp]: [Johannes Hoochstraten], →OCLC, folio xix, recto:
  Of vvhat texte thou proveſt hell / vvill a nother prove purgatory / a nother lymbo patrum / and a nother the aſſumpcion of oure ladi: And a nother ſhall prove of the ſame texte that an Ape hath a tayle.
Any such primate other than a human.
(derogatory) An uncivilized person.
One who apes; a foolish imitator.

Hyponyms

(young or small): apeling, apelet (uncommon)
(female): apess (rare)
See also Thesaurus:ape

Derived terms

Translations

primate of the clade Hominoidea

Afrikaans: aap (af)
Albanian: majmun (sq)
Arabic: قِرْد (ar) m (qird)
Egyptian Arabic: قرْد ('erd)

Moroccan Arabic: قرْد (qərd)
Armenian: մարդանման կապիկ (mardanman kapik), կապիկ (hy) (kapik) (ape or monkey)
Belarusian: ма́лпа (be) f (málpa) (ape or monkey), чалавекападо́бная ма́лпа f (čalavjekapadóbnaja málpa)
Bulgarian: майму́на (bg) f (majmúna) (ape or monkey), човекоподо́бна майму́на f (čovekopodóbna majmúna)
Catalan: mico (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 猿 (jyun⁴), 無尾猿／无尾猿 (mou⁴ mei⁵ jyun⁴), 類人猿／类人猿 (leoi⁶ jan⁴ jyun⁴)

Dungan: жынху (řɨnhu) (人猴)

Mandarin: 猿 (zh) (yuán), 無尾猿／无尾猿 (zh) (wúwěiyuán), 類人猿／类人猿 (zh) (lèirényuán)
Coptic: ⲉⲛ m (en)
Czech: opice (cs) f
Danish: abe (da) c, menneskeabe c
Dutch: aap (nl) m, apin (nl) f, mensaap (nl) m
Esperanto: simio (eo) (ape or monkey; common), homoideo (technical)
Estonian: ahv (et)
Faroese: apa (fo) f
Finnish: ihmisapina (fi)
French: singe (fr) m, hominoïdé m, singe anthropoïde m
Galician: simio m
Georgian: მაიმუნი (ka) (maimuni)
German: Affe (de) m (ape or monkey), Menschenaffe (de) m (ape specifically)
Greek: πίθηκος (el) m (píthikos)
Ancient: πῐ́θηκος m (píthēkos)
Hebrew: קוף (he) m (kof) (ape or monkey), קוף אדם m (kof-adám) (ape specifically)
Hindi: कपि (hi) m (kapi), वानर (hi) m (vānar)
Hungarian: majom (hu), emberszabású majom (hu)
Icelandic: api (is) m
Indonesian: kera (id)
Irish: ápa m
Italian: scimmia (it) f, ominide (it) m
Japanese: 猿 (ja) (さる, saru) (ape or monkey), サル (ja) (saru), 類人猿 (ja) (るいじんえん, ruijin'en)
Khmer: ស្វា (km) (svaa)
Korean: (ape or monkey) 원숭이 (ko) (wonsung'i), 유인원(類人猿) (ko) (yuinwon)
Lao: ຖັກແທ່ (thak thǣ), ວານອນ (wā nǭn) (ape or monkey), ລິງ (ling) (ape or monkey)
Latin: sīmia (la) f, sīmius m, clūra f
Latvian: pērtiķis m (ape or monkey)
Lithuanian: beždžiõnė (lt) f, (member of the family Pongidae) žmõgbeždžionė f
Low German:
German Low German: Aap (nds) m, Oop (nds) m
Luxembourgish: Af m
Macedonian: мајмун (mk) m (majmun), човеколик мајмун m (čovekolik majmun)
Malay: mawas (ms)
Maltese: xadin
Maori: makimaki
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: сармагчин (mn) (sarmagčin)

Mongolian: ᠰᠠᠷᠮᠠᠭᠴᠢᠨ (sarmaɣčin)
Navajo: mágí
Ngazidja Comorian: nkima class 9/10
Norman: marmoûset m
North Frisian: (Mooring) ååwe n; (Föhr-Amrum) aab n
Norwegian:
Bokmål: ape (no) m or f, menneskeape m or f

Nynorsk: ape m or f
Old English: apa m
Oromo: qamalee (om)
Ottoman Turkish: میمون (maymun)
Persian:
Dari: مَیْمُون (fa) (maymūn), بُوزِینَه (fa) (būzīna), کَپِی (fa) (kapī), کَپِّی (fa) (kappī)

Iranian Persian: مِیْمون (fa) (meymun), بوزینِه (fa) (buzine), کَپی (fa) (kapi), کَپّی (fa) (kappi)
Plautdietsch: Op f
Polish: małpa (pl) f (ape or monkey), małpa człekokształtna f
Portuguese: macaco (pt) m, símio (pt) m
Punjabi:
Gurmukhi: ਬਣਮਾਣਸ m (baṇmāṇas)
Romanian: maimuță (ro) f
Russian: обезья́на (ru) f (obezʹjána) (ape or monkey), человекообра́зная обезья́на f (čelovekoobráznaja obezʹjána)
Sanskrit: कपि (sa) m (kapi)
Saterland Frisian: Oape
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ма̀јмун m, човеколики мајмун m, човјеколики мајмун m

Roman: màjmun (sh) m, čovekoliki majmun m, čovjekoliki majmun m
Slovak: opica (sk) f, človečnjak m
Slovene: opica (sl) f
Spanish: simio (es) m, hominoideo m, hominoide m
Swedish: människoapa (sv) c, apa (sv) c (ape or monkey)
Tagalog: bakulaw, ugaw (big)
Tajik: маймун (tg) (maymun)
Thai: ลิงไม่มีหาง (ling-mâi-mii-hǎang), ลิง (th) (ling) (ape or monkey), จ๋อ (jɔ̌ɔ) (ape or monkey)
Tibetan: མི་རྒོད (mi rgod)
Turkish: insansı maymun (tr)
Ukrainian: ма́впа (uk) f (mávpa) (ape or monkey), людиноподі́бна ма́впа f (ljudynopodíbna mávpa)
Urdu: بَنْدَر m (bandar), وانَر m (vānar), کَپی m (kapī)
Vietnamese: vượn (vi), khỉ không đuôi
Volapük: lep (vo)
Walloon: mårticot (wa) m, séndje (wa) m
Welsh: epa m
West Frisian: aap (fy) c
Zazaki: apeka
Zulu: inkawu (zu) class 9/10

any such primate other than a human

Finnish: ihmisapina (fi); apina (fi) (colloquial)
Hindi: वानर (hi) (vānar)

derogatory: uncivilized person

Catalan: simi (ca) m, mico (ca) m, primat m
Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: apina (fi)
German: Affe (de) m
Greek: πίθηκος (el) m (píthikos)
Hungarian: majom (hu)
Italian: scimmione m
Low German:
German Low German: Aap (nds) m, Oop (nds) m
Macedonian: мајмун (mk) m (majmun)
Portuguese: macaco (pt) m, primata (pt) m
Russian: обезья́на (ru) f (obezʹjána)
Spanish: simio (es) m, mono (es), primate (es) m

foolish imitator

Finnish: apina (fi)

Verb

ape (third-person singular simple present apes, present participle aping or apeing, simple past and past participle aped)

(intransitive) To behave like an ape.
(transitive) To imitate or mimic, particularly to imitate poorly.
- 1772, [Thomas Bridges], “Something by Way of Preface”, in A Burlesque Translation of Homer, London: Printed for S. Hooper, […], →OCLC:
  And well their dignity it ſuits, / To ape the gravity of brutes.
- 1847, Emily Brontë, chapter XXI, in Wuthering Heights‎^[1]:
  But there’s this difference; one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of silver.
- 1961, J. A. Philip, “Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato,”, in Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, volume 92, page 454:
  It is not conceived as a mere “aping” in externals nor as an enacting in the sense of assuming a foreign role.
- 2010, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, New York: Random House, →ISBN, page 180:
  Every year a paper or a book appears, bemoaning the fate of economics and complaining about its attempts to ape physics.

Derived terms

aper

Translations

to behave like an ape

Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: käyttäytyä kuin apina
Hungarian: majomkodik (hu)
Portuguese: macaquear
Spanish: monear (es)

to imitate

Afrikaans: na-aap (af)
Bulgarian: подражавам (bg) (podražavam)
Catalan: imitar (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Czech: napodobovat impf, opičit se impf
Dutch: na-apen (nl), nadoen (nl), nabootsen (nl), imiteren (nl)
Esperanto: simii
Finnish: matkia (fi), apinoida (fi)
French: singer (fr)
German: nachäffen (de)
Greek: πιθηκίζω (el) (pithikízo)
Hungarian: majmol (hu)
Icelandic: apa eftir
Italian: scimmiottare (it)
Japanese: 猿真似する (ja) (sarumane suru)
Persian: کپی کردن (fa) (kapi kardan), تقلید کردن (fa) (taqlid kardan)
Polish: małpować (pl), imitować (pl)
Portuguese: imitar (pt), macaquear
Romanian: imita (ro), maimuțări (ro)
Russian: (act the ape) обезья́нничать (ru) (obezʹjánničatʹ), подража́ть (ru) (podražátʹ)
Spanish: remedar (es), imitar (es)
Swedish: härma (sv), apa efter (sv)
Ukrainian: мавпувати (mavpuvaty)

Etymology 2

Clipping of apeshit (“ape-shit (crazy)”).

Adjective

ape (not comparable)

(slang) Wild; crazy.
We were ape over the new look.

He went ape when he heard the bad news.

Anagrams

EAP, EPA, PAE, PEA, Pae, Pea, pea

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɑː.pə/

Noun

ape

plural of aap

Aromanian

Etymology

From Latin aqua.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈape]
Audio: (file)

Noun

ape f (plural api, definite articulation apa)

Alternative form of apã

Corsican

Noun

ape

plural of apa

Finnish

Etymology

appaa +‎ -e

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɑpeˣ/, [ˈɑ̝pe̞(ʔ)]
Rhymes: -ɑpe
Hyphenation^(key): ape

Noun

ape

horse feed
(colloquial) food

Declension

Inflection of ape (Kotus type 48*B/hame, pp-p gradation)
nominative		ape	appeet
genitive		appeen	appeiden appeitten
partitive		apetta	appeita
illative		appeeseen	appeisiin appeihin
		singular	plural
nominative		ape	appeet
accusative	nom.	ape	appeet
accusative	gen.	appeen	appeet
genitive		appeen	appeiden appeitten
partitive		apetta	appeita
inessive		appeessa	appeissa
elative		appeesta	appeista
illative		appeeseen	appeisiin appeihin
adessive		appeella	appeilla
ablative		appeelta	appeilta
allative		appeelle	appeille
essive		appeena	appeina
translative		appeeksi	appeiksi
abessive		appeetta	appeitta
instructive		—	appein
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of ape (Kotus type 48*B/hame, pp-p gradation)

first-person singular possessor
		singular	plural
nominative		appeeni	appeeni
accusative	nom.	appeeni	appeeni
accusative	gen.	appeeni	appeeni
genitive		appeeni	appeideni appeitteni
partitive		apettani	appeitani
inessive		appeessani	appeissani
elative		appeestani	appeistani
illative		appeeseeni	appeisiini appeihini
adessive		appeellani	appeillani
ablative		appeeltani	appeiltani
allative		appeelleni	appeilleni
essive		appeenani	appeinani
translative		appeekseni	appeikseni
abessive		appeettani	appeittani
instructive		—	—
comitative		—	appeineni

second-person singular possessor
		singular	plural
nominative		appeesi	appeesi
accusative	nom.	appeesi	appeesi
accusative	gen.	appeesi	appeesi
genitive		appeesi	appeidesi appeittesi
partitive		apettasi	appeitasi
inessive		appeessasi	appeissasi
elative		appeestasi	appeistasi
illative		appeeseesi	appeisiisi appeihisi
adessive		appeellasi	appeillasi
ablative		appeeltasi	appeiltasi
allative		appeellesi	appeillesi
essive		appeenasi	appeinasi
translative		appeeksesi	appeiksesi
abessive		appeettasi	appeittasi
instructive		—	—
comitative		—	appeinesi

first-person plural possessor
		singular	plural
nominative		appeemme	appeemme
accusative	nom.	appeemme	appeemme
accusative	gen.	appeemme	appeemme
genitive		appeemme	appeidemme appeittemme
partitive		apettamme	appeitamme
inessive		appeessamme	appeissamme
elative		appeestamme	appeistamme
illative		appeeseemme	appeisiimme appeihimme
adessive		appeellamme	appeillamme
ablative		appeeltamme	appeiltamme
allative		appeellemme	appeillemme
essive		appeenamme	appeinamme
translative		appeeksemme	appeiksemme
abessive		appeettamme	appeittamme
instructive		—	—
comitative		—	appeinemme

second-person plural possessor
		singular	plural
nominative		appeenne	appeenne
accusative	nom.	appeenne	appeenne
accusative	gen.	appeenne	appeenne
genitive		appeenne	appeidenne appeittenne
partitive		apettanne	appeitanne
inessive		appeessanne	appeissanne
elative		appeestanne	appeistanne
illative		appeeseenne	appeisiinne appeihinne
adessive		appeellanne	appeillanne
ablative		appeeltanne	appeiltanne
allative		appeellenne	appeillenne
essive		appeenanne	appeinanne
translative		appeeksenne	appeiksenne
abessive		appeettanne	appeittanne
instructive		—	—
comitative		—	appeinenne

third-person possessor
		singular	plural
nominative		appeensa	appeensa
accusative	nom.	appeensa	appeensa
accusative	gen.	appeensa	appeensa
genitive		appeensa	appeidensa appeittensa
partitive		apettaan apettansa	appeitaan appeitansa
inessive		appeessaan appeessansa	appeissaan appeissansa
elative		appeestaan appeestansa	appeistaan appeistansa
illative		appeeseensa	appeisiinsa appeihinsa
adessive		appeellaan appeellansa	appeillaan appeillansa
ablative		appeeltaan appeeltansa	appeiltaan appeiltansa
allative		appeelleen appeellensa	appeilleen appeillensa
essive		appeenaan appeenansa	appeinaan appeinansa
translative		appeekseen appeeksensa	appeikseen appeiksensa
abessive		appeettaan appeettansa	appeittaan appeittansa
instructive		—	—
comitative		—	appeineen appeinensa

Guaraní

Pronunciation

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Noun

ape

back

Interlingua

Etymology

From Latin apis, apem.

Noun

ape (plural apes)

bee

Related terms

apicultura

Italian

Etymology

From Latin apem.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈa.pe/
Audio: (file)
Rhymes: -ape
Hyphenation: à‧pe

Noun

ape f (plural api)

(entomology) bee
Synonym: pecchia
(colloquial) honeybee
Synonyms: ape da miele, ape domestica

Related terms

Anagrams

epa

Latin

Verb

ape

second-person singular present active imperative of apō

References

“ape”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Mauritian Creole

Alternative forms

pe

Etymology

From French après. Compare Haitian Creole ap.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /(a)pe/

Verb

ape (medial form ape)

(auxiliary) Used to indicate present progressive tense or the continuous tense in general, commonly shortened to "pe" in speech.

Related terms

ti ape

Mbyá Guaraní

Noun

ape (non-possessed form tape)

path
road, street

Middle English

Alternative forms

eape, aape

Etymology

From Old English apa, from Proto-West Germanic *apō, from Proto-Germanic *apô.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈaːp(ə)/

Noun

ape (plural apes or apen)

An ape or monkey; a simian creature.
A deceiver; a conman or charlatan.
A gullible or foolish person.

Descendants

English: ape
Scots: ape, aip

References

“āpe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-15.

Neapolitan

Noun

ape

plural of apa

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

Aper

Wikipedia ^no

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /aːpe/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse api.

Noun

ape f or m (definite singular apa or apen, indefinite plural aper, definite plural apene)

ape, monkey

Related terms

Etymology 2

Verb

ape (imperative ap, present tense aper, passive apes, simple past apa or apet or apte, past participle apa or apet or apt, present participle apende)

to ape, mimic or imitate.

References

“ape” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse api.

Noun

ape m (definite singular apen, indefinite plural apar, definite plural apane)

ape f (definite singular apa, indefinite plural aper, definite plural apene)

ape, monkey

Related terms

Etymology 2

Verb

ape (present tense apar, past tense apa, past participle apa, passive infinitive apast, present participle apande, imperative ape/ap)

e-infinitive form of apa

References

“ape” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈape]

Noun

ape

inflection of apă:
1. plural
2. genitive/dative singular

Sardinian

Alternative forms

abe

Etymology

From Latin apis, apem. Compare Logudorese abe, Campidanese abi.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈape/

Noun

ape f (plural apes)

(Nuorese) bee

Derived terms

Related terms

References

Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964) Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg
Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes

ape

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Adjective

See also

Anagrams

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

Noun

Aromanian

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Corsican

Noun

Finnish

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Further reading

Guaraní

Pronunciation

Noun

Interlingua

Etymology

Noun

Related terms

Italian

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Related terms

Further reading

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

References

Mauritian Creole

Alternative forms

Etymology

Pronunciation

Verb

Related terms

Mbyá Guaraní

Noun

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Descendants

References

Neapolitan

Noun

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

Related terms

Etymology 2

Verb

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Noun

Related terms

Etymology 2

Verb

References

Romanian