"gibbon" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈɡɪbən/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-gibbon.wav Forms: gibbons [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪbən Etymology: Reborrowing from French gibbon, folk etymology (compare English Gibbon) ultimately from a Northern Aslian language (compare Batek kəboɲ). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|gibbon}} French gibbon, {{cog|en|Gibbon}} English Gibbon, {{cog|btq|kəboɲ}} Batek kəboɲ Head templates: {{en-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. Categories (lifeform): Lesser apes Synonyms: guibon [obsolete] Translations (small ape): gibbon (Afrikaans), langarmaap (Afrikaans), غِيبُون (ḡibūn/jibawn/jibun) [masculine] (Arabic), جِبَّوْن (ḡibūn/jibawn/jibun) [masculine] (Arabic), جِبُون (ḡibūn/jibawn/jibun) [masculine] (Arabic), গিবন (gibon) (Assamese), giboi (Basque), гибон (gibon) [masculine] (Bulgarian), မျောက်လွှဲကျော် (myaukhlwai:kyau) (Burmese), gibó [masculine] (Catalan), 長臂猿 (Chinese Mandarin), 长臂猿 (chángbìyuán) (Chinese Mandarin), gibon [masculine] (Czech), gibbon [masculine] (Dutch), gibboni (Finnish), gibbon [masculine] (French), xibón [masculine] (Galician), გიბონი (giboni) (Georgian), Gibbon [masculine] (German), γίββων (gívvon) [masculine] (Greek), लंगूर (laṅgūr) (Hindi), gibbon (Hungarian), gibono (Ido), giobún [masculine] (Irish), gibbone [masculine] (Italian), 手長猿 (tenagazaru) (Japanese), テナガザル (tenagazaru) (Japanese), ꦲꦸꦮꦲꦸꦮ (uwahuwa) (Javanese), ұзын қол мешін (ūzyn qol meşın) (Kazakh), гиббон (gibbon) (Kazakh), gibbon [masculine] (Lower Sorbian), ungka (english: Sumatra, Peninsular) (Malay), wakwak (Kalimantan) (Malay), uwa-uwa (english: Sumatra) (Malay), mágí bigaanézí (Navajo), gibon [masculine] (Polish), gibão [masculine] (Portuguese), gibon [masculine] (Romanian), гиббо́н (gibbón) [masculine] (Russian), gibon [masculine] (Slovak), gibón [masculine] (Spanish), ชะนี (chá-nii) (Thai), ca đác (Tày), căng (Tày), vượn (Vietnamese), gibon [masculine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-gibbon-en-noun-mUs85MnF Categories (other): Bulgarian terms with redundant script codes, English entries with incorrect language header, English links with redundant wikilinks, Entries with translation boxes, Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Afrikaans translations, Terms with Arabic translations, Terms with Assamese translations, Terms with Basque translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Burmese translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with Georgian translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Hindi translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Ido translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Javanese translations, Terms with Kazakh translations, Terms with Lower Sorbian translations, Terms with Malay translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Navajo translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Slovak translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Thai translations, Terms with Tày translations, Terms with Vietnamese translations, Terms with Welsh translations Derived forms: agile gibbon (taxonomic: Hylobates agilis), black-handed gibbon (taxonomic: Hylobates agilis), Bornean white-bearded gibbon (taxonomic: Hylobates albibarbis), capped gibbon (alt: Hylobatis pileatus), common gibbon (taxonomic: Hylobates lar), crested gibbon (taxonomic: Nomascus concolor), Hainan gibbon (taxonomic: Nomascus hainanus), hoolock gibbon (taxonomic: Hoolock spp.), hulock gibbon (taxonomic: Hoolock spp.), Javan gibbon (taxonomic: Hylobates moloch), Kloss's gibbon, kloss's gibbon, kloss gibbon, lar gibbon (taxonomic: Hylobates lar), Mentawai gibbon (taxonomic: Hylobates klossii), pileated gibbon (taxonomic: Hylobates pileatus), potto gibbon (taxonomic: Perodicticus spp.), shitgibbon, silvery gibbon (taxonomic: Hylobates lar), white-cheeked gibbon (english: Nomascus), white-handed gibbon (taxonomic: Hylobates lar), yellow-cheeked gibbon (taxonomic: Nomascus gabriellae)

Inflected forms

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          "sense": "small ape",
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          "sense": "small ape",
          "word": "გიბონი"
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          "sense": "small ape",
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          "lang": "Thai",
          "roman": "chá-nii",
          "sense": "small ape",
          "word": "ชะนี"
        },
        {
          "code": "tyz",
          "lang": "Tày",
          "sense": "small ape",
          "word": "ca đác"
        },
        {
          "code": "tyz",
          "lang": "Tày",
          "sense": "small ape",
          "word": "căng"
        },
        {
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "small ape",
          "word": "vượn"
        },
        {
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "small ape",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "gibon"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɡɪbən/"
    },
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    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪbən"
    }
  ],
  "word": "gibbon"
}
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    {
      "taxonomic": "Hylobates agilis",
      "word": "agile gibbon"
    },
    {
      "taxonomic": "Hylobates agilis",
      "word": "black-handed gibbon"
    },
    {
      "taxonomic": "Hylobates albibarbis",
      "word": "Bornean white-bearded gibbon"
    },
    {
      "alt": "Hylobatis pileatus",
      "word": "capped gibbon"
    },
    {
      "taxonomic": "Hylobates lar",
      "word": "common gibbon"
    },
    {
      "taxonomic": "Nomascus concolor",
      "word": "crested gibbon"
    },
    {
      "taxonomic": "Nomascus hainanus",
      "word": "Hainan gibbon"
    },
    {
      "taxonomic": "Hoolock spp.",
      "word": "hoolock gibbon"
    },
    {
      "taxonomic": "Hoolock spp.",
      "word": "hulock gibbon"
    },
    {
      "taxonomic": "Hylobates moloch",
      "word": "Javan gibbon"
    },
    {
      "word": "Kloss's gibbon"
    },
    {
      "word": "kloss's gibbon"
    },
    {
      "word": "kloss gibbon"
    },
    {
      "taxonomic": "Hylobates lar",
      "word": "lar gibbon"
    },
    {
      "taxonomic": "Hylobates klossii",
      "word": "Mentawai gibbon"
    },
    {
      "taxonomic": "Hylobates pileatus",
      "word": "pileated gibbon"
    },
    {
      "taxonomic": "Perodicticus spp.",
      "word": "potto gibbon"
    },
    {
      "word": "shitgibbon"
    },
    {
      "taxonomic": "Hylobates lar",
      "word": "silvery gibbon"
    },
    {
      "english": "Nomascus",
      "word": "white-cheeked gibbon"
    },
    {
      "taxonomic": "Hylobates lar",
      "word": "white-handed gibbon"
    },
    {
      "taxonomic": "Nomascus gabriellae",
      "word": "yellow-cheeked gibbon"
    }
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        "2": "fr",
        "3": "gibbon"
      },
      "expansion": "French gibbon",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Gibbon"
      },
      "expansion": "English Gibbon",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "btq",
        "2": "kəboɲ"
      },
      "expansion": "Batek kəboɲ",
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Reborrowing from French gibbon, folk etymology (compare English Gibbon) ultimately from a Northern Aslian language (compare Batek kəboɲ).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gibbons",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "gibbon (plural gibbons)",
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    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "Bulgarian terms with redundant script codes",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English links with redundant wikilinks",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms borrowed from French",
        "English terms derived from French",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa",
        "Entries using missing taxonomic name (genus)",
        "Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
        "Pages with 3 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Rhymes:English/ɪbən",
        "Rhymes:English/ɪbən/2 syllables",
        "Terms with Afrikaans translations",
        "Terms with Arabic translations",
        "Terms with Assamese translations",
        "Terms with Basque translations",
        "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
        "Terms with Burmese translations",
        "Terms with Catalan translations",
        "Terms with Czech translations",
        "Terms with Dutch translations",
        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with Galician translations",
        "Terms with Georgian translations",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "Terms with Greek translations",
        "Terms with Hindi translations",
        "Terms with Hungarian translations",
        "Terms with Ido translations",
        "Terms with Irish translations",
        "Terms with Italian translations",
        "Terms with Japanese translations",
        "Terms with Javanese translations",
        "Terms with Kazakh translations",
        "Terms with Lower Sorbian translations",
        "Terms with Malay translations",
        "Terms with Mandarin translations",
        "Terms with Navajo translations",
        "Terms with Polish translations",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "Terms with Romanian translations",
        "Terms with Russian translations",
        "Terms with Slovak translations",
        "Terms with Spanish translations",
        "Terms with Thai translations",
        "Terms with Tày translations",
        "Terms with Vietnamese translations",
        "Terms with Welsh translations",
        "en:Lesser apes"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1950, Evelyn Waugh, Helena:",
          "text": "'[…] 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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A small ape of the family Hylobatidae with long limbs, which it uses to travel through rainforests by swinging from branch to branch."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ape",
          "ape"
        ],
        [
          "Hylobatidae",
          "Hylobatidae#Translingual"
        ],
        [
          "limb",
          "limb"
        ],
        [
          "travel",
          "travel"
        ],
        [
          "rainforest",
          "rainforest"
        ],
        [
          "branch",
          "branch"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɡɪbən/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-gibbon.wav",
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    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪbən"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "guibon"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "small ape",
      "word": "gibbon"
    },
    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "small ape",
      "word": "langarmaap"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ḡibūn/jibawn/jibun",
      "sense": "small ape",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "غِيبُون"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ḡibūn/jibawn/jibun",
      "sense": "small ape",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "جِبَّوْن"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ḡibūn/jibawn/jibun",
      "sense": "small ape",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "جِبُون"
    },
    {
      "code": "as",
      "lang": "Assamese",
      "roman": "gibon",
      "sense": "small ape",
      "word": "গিবন"
    },
    {
      "code": "eu",
      "lang": "Basque",
      "sense": "small ape",
      "word": "giboi"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "gibon",
      "sense": "small ape",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "гибон"
    },
    {
      "code": "my",
      "lang": "Burmese",
      "roman": "myaukhlwai:kyau",
      "sense": "small ape",
      "word": "မျောက်လွှဲကျော်"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "small ape",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gibó"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "small ape",
      "word": "長臂猿"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "chángbìyuán",
      "sense": "small ape",
      "word": "长臂猿"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "small ape",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gibon"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "small ape",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gibbon"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "small ape",
      "word": "gibboni"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "small ape",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gibbon"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "small ape",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "xibón"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "giboni",
      "sense": "small ape",
      "word": "გიბონი"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "small ape",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Gibbon"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "gívvon",
      "sense": "small ape",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "γίββων"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "laṅgūr",
      "sense": "small ape",
      "word": "लंगूर"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "small ape",
      "word": "gibbon"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "small ape",
      "word": "gibono"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "small ape",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "giobún"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "small ape",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gibbone"
    },
    {
      "code": "jv",
      "lang": "Javanese",
      "roman": "uwahuwa",
      "sense": "small ape",
      "word": "ꦲꦸꦮꦲꦸꦮ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "tenagazaru",
      "sense": "small ape",
      "word": "手長猿"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "tenagazaru",
      "sense": "small ape",
      "word": "テナガザル"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "ūzyn qol meşın",
      "sense": "small ape",
      "word": "ұзын қол мешін"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "gibbon",
      "sense": "small ape",
      "word": "гиббон"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "english": "Sumatra, Peninsular",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "small ape",
      "word": "ungka"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "small ape",
      "word": "wakwak (Kalimantan)"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "english": "Sumatra",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "small ape",
      "word": "uwa-uwa"
    },
    {
      "code": "nv",
      "lang": "Navajo",
      "sense": "small ape",
      "word": "mágí bigaanézí"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "small ape",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gibon"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "small ape",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gibão"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "small ape",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gibon"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "gibbón",
      "sense": "small ape",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "гиббо́н"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "small ape",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gibon"
    },
    {
      "code": "dsb",
      "lang": "Lower Sorbian",
      "sense": "small ape",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gibbon"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "small ape",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gibón"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "chá-nii",
      "sense": "small ape",
      "word": "ชะนี"
    },
    {
      "code": "tyz",
      "lang": "Tày",
      "sense": "small ape",
      "word": "ca đác"
    },
    {
      "code": "tyz",
      "lang": "Tày",
      "sense": "small ape",
      "word": "căng"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "small ape",
      "word": "vượn"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "small ape",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gibon"
    }
  ],
  "word": "gibbon"
}

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