"Affe" meaning in German

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Noun

IPA: [ˈafə] Audio: De-Affe.ogg , De-Affe2.ogg
Etymology: From Middle High German affe, from Old High German affo, from Proto-West Germanic *apō, from Proto-Germanic *apô. The sense of drunkenness has been traced to the late 18ᵗʰ century, allegedly playing on the homophony of Czech opice (“monkey or ape”) and opít se (“to get drunk”), though the image of a monkey being a possessing demon is translingual, and thus Spanish mona (“she-ape”) also means drunkenness, Spanish mono (“he-ape”) withdrawal symptoms, English monkey a substance (typically, a recreational drug) addiction. Etymology templates: {{inh|de|gmh|affe}} Middle High German affe, {{inh|de|goh|affo}} Old High German affo, {{inh|de|gmw-pro|*apō}} Proto-West Germanic *apō, {{inh|de|gem-pro|*apô}} Proto-Germanic *apô, {{bor|de|cs|opice|t=monkey or ape}} Czech opice (“monkey or ape”), {{m|cs|opít se|t=to get drunk}} opít se (“to get drunk”), {{cog|es|mona|t=she-ape}} Spanish mona (“she-ape”), {{cog|es|mono|t=he-ape}} Spanish mono (“he-ape”), {{cog|en|monkey}} English monkey Head templates: {{de-noun|m.weak|dim=^chen,^lein|f=^in􂀿only for the animal􂁀}} Affe m (weak, genitive Affen, plural Affen, diminutive Äffchen n or Äfflein n, feminine (only for the animal) Äffin) Inflection templates: {{de-ndecl|m.weak}} Forms: Affen [genitive], Affen [plural], Äffchen [diminutive, neuter], Äfflein [diminutive, neuter], Äffin [feminine], weak [table-tags], Affe [nominative, singular], Affen [definite, nominative, plural], Affen [genitive, singular], Affen [definite, genitive, plural], Affen [dative, singular], Affen [dative, definite, plural], Affen [accusative, singular], Affen [accusative, definite, plural]
  1. monkey or ape (male or female or of unspecified sex) Tags: masculine, weak Categories (lifeform): Primates
    Sense id: en-Affe-de-noun-McF2fwYB
  2. ellipsis of Fellaffe., a kind of furry military knapsack Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, masculine, weak Alternative form of: Fellaffe (extra: a kind of furry military knapsack)
    Sense id: en-Affe-de-noun-AFg8kEX1 Categories (other): German ellipses
  3. (slang, regional) drunkenness, alcohol intoxication Tags: masculine, regional, slang, weak
    Sense id: en-Affe-de-noun--3M-lxuX Categories (other): Regional German, German entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of German entries with incorrect language header: 14 6 80
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: affig, nachäffen Related terms: Affenbande, Affenbrotbaum, Affenente, Affentheater

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2018, Daniel Tomazic, Kuhnles Gesetz: Ein badischer Heimatkrimi aus dem Mittleren Westen, page 10",
          "text": "Da war er auf dem Weinfest und hat sich am Stand der lokalen Winzergenossenschaft, da gab es für Mitglieder alles umsonst, einen granatenmäßigen Affen angesoffen.",
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      "audio": "De-Affe2.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/60/De-Affe2.ogg/De-Affe2.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/De-Affe2.ogg",
      "text": "Audio"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Affe"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable German dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-22 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (fc4f0c7 and c937495). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.