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Gibbon

Gibbon

See also: gibbon

English

Proper noun

Gibbon

A surname.

German

Noun

Gibbon m ‎(genitive Gibbons, plural Gibbons)

gibbon

gibbon

gibbon

See also: Gibbon

English

A lar gibbon

Noun

gibbon ‎(plural gibbons)

A small ape of the family Hylobatidae with long limbs, which it uses to travel through rainforests by swinging from branch to branch.

Translations

small ape

Arabic: غِيبُون m ‎(ḡibūn)
Basque: giboi
Bulgarian: гибон m ‎(gibon)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 長臂猿 (zh), 长臂猿 (zh) ‎(chángbìyuán)
Czech: gibon m
Dutch: gibbon m
Finnish: gibboni (fi)
French: gibbon (fr) m
Galician: xibón m
German: Gibbon (de) m
Greek: γίββων m ‎(gívvon)
Hindi: लंगूर (hi) ‎(laṅgūr)
Hungarian: gibbon (hu)

Ido: gibono (io)
Irish: giobún m1
Italian: gibbone (it) m
Japanese: 手長猿 ‎(tenagazaru), テナガザル ‎(tenagazaru)
Navajo: mágí bigaanézí
Polish: gibon (pl) m
Portuguese: gibão (pt) m
Romanian: gibon (ro) m
Russian: гиббо́н (ru) m ‎(gibbón)
Slovak: gibon m
Spanish: gibón (es) m
Thai: ชะนี ‎(chá-nee)

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

gibbon m ‎(plural gibbons, diminutive gibbonnetje n)

gibbon

French

Etymology

Brought to Europe from French India by Joseph François Dupleix , supposedly a word from a lost Indian dialect.

Noun

gibbon m ‎(plural gibbons)

Gibbon