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Chimpanzee

CHIMPANZEE

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Noun.

An animal of the ape kind, a variety of the ourang-outang.

It is now considered a distinct species.

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chimpanzee

chimpanzee

English

Chimpanzee

Noun

chimpanzee ‎(plural chimpanzees)

A great ape of the genus Pan, native to Africa, and believed by biologists to be the closest extant relative to humans.

Synonyms

chimp

Holonyms

(individual chimpanzee): chimpkind

Translations

ape

Afrikaans: sjimpansee
Arabic: شِمْبَانْزِي m ‎(šimbanzī)
Armenian: շիմպանզե (hy) ‎(šimpanze)
Asturian: chimpancé m, f
Azeri: şimpanze
Bambara: worõ
Belarusian: шымпанзэ́ m, f ‎(šympanzé)
Breton: chimpanze m
Burmese: ချင်ပန်ဇီမျောက် ‎(hkyangpanjimyauk)
Catalan: ximpanzé m
Cherokee: ᏥᎻᏆ̃ᏂᏏᎢ ‎(tsimiquãnisii), ᎠᏓᎵᏍᎩᏱᏍᎩ ᎡᏆ ‎(adalisgiyisgi equa)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 黑猩猩 (zh) ‎(hēixīngxing)
Czech: šimpanz (cs) m
Danish: chimpanse (da) c
Dutch: chimpansee (nl) m
Esperanto: ĉimpanzo
Estonian: šimpans
Faroese: sjimpansa f
Finnish: simpanssi (fi)
French: chimpanzé (fr) m
Galician: chimpancé
Georgian: შიმპანზე ‎(šimṗanze)
German: Schimpanse (de) m
Greek: χιμπατζής (el) m ‎(chimpatzís)
Hebrew: שימפנזה (he) m ‎(shimpanze)
Hindi: चिंपांजी ‎(ciṁpāṁjī)
Hungarian: csimpánz (hu)
Icelandic: simpansi (is) m
Ido: chimpanzeo (io)
Indonesian: simpanse (id)
Irish: simpeansaí m
Italian: scimpanzé (it) m
Japanese: チンパンジー (ja) ‎(chinpanjī), 黒猩々 ‎(くろしょうじょう, kuroshōjō)
Khmer: ស្វាឳ ‎(svaa ’ǝv), សត្វស្វាឪ ‎(sat svaa ’ǝv)

Kongo: kimpenzi
Korean: 침팬지 (ko) ‎(chimpaenji)
Lao: ລີງຊິມແພນຊີ (lo) ‎(līng sim phǣn sī)
Latvian: šimpanze f
Lingala: mokómbósó
Lithuanian: šimpanzė f
Malay: cimpanzi
Manx: chimpansee
Mongolian: шимпанзе ‎(šimpanze)
Navajo: mágíshzhin
Northern Sami: šimpánsa
Norwegian:

Bokmål: sjimpanse m

Nynorsk: sjimpanse m
Persian: شمپانزه (fa) ‎(šampânze)
Polish: szympans (pl) m
Portuguese: chimpanzé (pt) m
Romanian: cimpanzeu (ro) m
Russian: шимпанзе́ (ru) m, f ‎(šimpanzé)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: шимпанза f

Roman: čimpanza (sh) f
Slovak: šimpanz m
Slovene: šimpanz (sl) m
Somali: korow
Spanish: chimpancé (es) m
Swahili: sokwe mtu
Swedish: schimpans (sv) c
Tajik: шимпанзе ‎(šimpanze)
Thai: ลิงชิมแปนซี ‎(ling chim-bpaen-see)
Turkish: şempanze (tr)
Ukrainian: шимпанзе́ m, f ‎(šympanzé)
Vietnamese: tinh tinh
Welsh: tsimpansî m

Derived terms

Chimpanese

References

↑ “chimpanzee” in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2015.