chimpanzee

English

A chimpanzee

Alternative forms

• japanzee (obsolete)

Etymology

The first recorded use of the name chimpanzee dates to 1738. The name is derived from an unspecified Bantu language of Angola (compare Vili ci-mpenzi), probably brought to the English language via French chimpanzé.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɪmˈpæn.zi/, /ˌt͡ʃɪm.pənˈziː/, /ˌt͡ʃɪm.pænˈziː/

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Noun

chimpanzee (plural chimpanzees)

1. Pan troglodytes, a species of great ape in the genus Pan, native to Africa, and believed by biologists to be the closest extant relative to humans along with the bonobo.

   Synonym: chimp

   Hyponyms: blackback, silverback

   Holonym: chimpkind

2. (broadly) A member of the genus Pan, including the bonobo which was formerly known as the pygmy chimpanzee.

Derived terms

• antichimpanzee
• central chimpanzee
• ChHV
• chimp
• Chimpanese
• chimpanzee fire
• chimpanzeelike
• chimpanzoid
• chuman
• dwarf chimpanzee
• humanzee
• manpanzee
• pygmy chimpanzee
• Trumpanzee

 

Translations

any hominid of the genus Pan

• Afrikaans: sjimpansee
• Arabic: شِمْبَانْزِي m (šimbanzī)
• Armenian: շիմպանզե (hy) (šimpanze)
• Assamese: চিম্পাঞ্জী (simpañzi)
• Asturian: chimpancé (ast) m or f
• Azerbaijani: şimpanze
• Bambara: worõ
• Belarusian: шымпанзэ́ m or f (šympanzé)
• Breton: chimpanze m
• Burmese: ချင်ပန်ဇီမျောက် (hkyangpanji-myauk)
• Catalan: ximpanzé (ca) 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; (♂) Schimpansenmännchen n, Schimpansen-Männchen n; (♀) Schimpansin (de) f, Schimpansenweibchen n, Schimpansen-Weibchen n
• Greek: χιμπατζής (el) m (chimpatzís)
• Hebrew: שימפנזה (he) m (shimpanze)
• Hindi: चिंपांजी ? (cimpāñjī), चिंपाजी (hi) m (cimpājī)
• Hungarian: csimpánz (hu)
• Icelandic: simpansi (is) m
• Ido: chimpanzeo (io)
• Indonesian: simpanse (id)
• Ingrian: šimpanze
• Irish: simpeansaí m
• Italian: scimpanzé (it) m
• Japanese: チンパンジー (ja) (chinpanjī), 黒猩々 (ja) (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
• Macedonian: шимпанзо n (šimpanzo)
• Malay: cimpanzi
• Malayalam: ചിമ്പാൻസി (cimpāṉsi)
• Manx: çhimpansee m, apag ghooinoil f
• 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
• Punjabi: ਚਿਪਾਂਜ਼ੀ (cipā̃zī), ਚਿੰਪੈਂਜ਼ੀ m (cimpaĩzī)
• Romanian: cimpanzeu (ro) m
• Russian: шимпанзе́ (ru) m or f (šimpanzé)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: чимпа̀нза f (Croatian), шимпа̀нза f (Bosnian, Serbian)

  Roman: čimpànza (sh) f (Croatian), šimpànza f (Bosnian, Serbian)

• Slovak: šimpanz (sk) m
• Slovene: šimpanz (sl) m
• Somali: korow
• Spanish: chimpancé (es) m
• Swahili: sokwe (sw), sokwe mtu
• Swedish: schimpans (sv) c
• Sylheti: ꠌꠤꠝ꠆ꠙꠣꠘ꠆ꠎꠤ (simfanzi)
• Tajik: шимпанзе (šimpanze)
• Thai: ลิงชิมแปนซี (ling chim-bpɛɛn-sii)
• Turkish: şempanze (tr)
• Ukrainian: шимпанзе́ m or f (šympanzé)
• Vietnamese: tinh tinh
• Welsh: tsimpansî m
• Western Panjabi: عام چمپینزی ?

Pan troglodytes

• Polish: szympans (pl) m, szympans zwyczajny m