gibbon

See also: Gibbon

English

A lar gibbon

Alternative forms

• guibon (obsolete)

Etymology

Reborrowing from French gibbon, folk etymology (compare English Gibbon) ultimately from a Northern Aslian language (compare Batek kəboɲ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɪbən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪbən

Noun

gibbon (plural gibbons)

1. A small ape of the family Hylobatidae with long limbs, which it uses to travel through rainforests by swinging from branch to branch.
   • 1950, Evelyn Waugh, Helena:

     ' […] Suppose that in years to come, when the Church's troubles seem to be over, there should come an apostate of my own trade, a false historian, with the mind of Cicero or Tacitus and the soul of an animal,' and he nodded towards the gibbon who fretted his golden chain and chattered for fruit.

Derived terms

• agile gibbon (Hylobates agilis)
• black-handed gibbon (Hylobates agilis)
• Bornean white-bearded gibbon (Hylobates albibarbis)
• capped gibbon (Hylobatis pileatus)
• common gibbon (Hylobates lar)
• crested gibbon (Nomascus concolor)
• Hainan gibbon (Nomascus hainanus)
• hoolock gibbon/hulock gibbon (Hoolock spp.)
• Javan gibbon (Hylobates moloch)
• Kloss's gibbon, kloss's gibbon/kloss gibbon
• lar gibbon (Hylobates lar)
• Mentawai gibbon (Hylobates klossii)
• pileated gibbon (Hylobates pileatus)
• potto gibbon (Perodicticus spp.)
• shitgibbon
• silvery gibbon (Hylobates lar)
• white-cheeked gibbon (Nomascus)
• white-handed gibbon (Hylobates lar)
• yellow-cheeked gibbon (Nomascus gabriellae)

 

Translations

small ape

• Afrikaans: gibbon, langarmaap
• Arabic: غِيبُون/جِبَّوْن/جِبُون m (ḡibūn/jibawn/jibun)
• Assamese: গিবন (gibon)
• Basque: giboi
• Bulgarian: гибон m (gibon)
• Burmese: မျောက်လွှဲကျော် (my) (myaukhlwai:kyau)
• Catalan: gibó m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 長臂猿／长臂猿 (zh) (chángbìyuán)

• Czech: gibon (cs) m
• Dutch: gibbon (nl) m
• Finnish: gibboni (fi)
• French: gibbon (fr) m
• Galician: xibón (gl) m
• Georgian: გიბონი (giboni)
• German: Gibbon (de) m
• Greek: γίββων m (gívvon)
• Hindi: लंगूर (hi) (laṅgūr)
• Hungarian: gibbon (hu)
• Ido: gibono (io)
• Irish: giobún m
• Italian: gibbone (it) m
• Javanese: ꦲꦸꦮꦲꦸꦮ (uwahuwa)
• Japanese: 手長猿 (ja) (tenagazaru), テナガザル (ja) (tenagazaru)
• Kazakh: ұзын қол мешін (ūzyn qol meşın), гиббон (gibbon)
• Malay: ungka (ms) (Sumatra, Peninsular), wakwak (Kalimantan), uwa-uwa (Sumatra)
• Navajo: mágí bigaanézí
• Polish: gibon (pl) m
• Portuguese: gibão (pt) m
• Romanian: gibon (ro) m
• Russian: гиббо́н (ru) m (gibbón)
• Slovak: gibon m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: gibbon m

• Spanish: gibón (es) m
• Thai: ชะนี (th) (chá-nii)
• Tày: ca đác, căng
• Vietnamese: vượn (vi)
• Welsh: gibon m

References

• “gibbon”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “gibbon”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• gibbon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• gobbin

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French gibbon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɣɪ.bɔn/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: gib‧bon

Noun

gibbon m (plural gibbons)

1. gibbon, primate of the family Hylobatidae

French

Etymology

Brought to Europe from French India by Joseph François Dupleix, probably from an English folk etymology (compare English Gibbon) with an Aslian root.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒi.bɔ̃/

Noun

gibbon m (plural gibbons)

1. Gibbon

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “gibbon”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
• “gibbon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.