macaque

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Wikipedia

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French macaque, from Portuguese macaco, of uncertain origin (see macaco for more). Doublet of macaco.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /məˈkæk/, /məˈkɑ(ː)k/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -æk, -ɑːk

Noun

macaque (plural macaques)

1. Any of a group of Old World monkeys of the genus Macaca.
   • 2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Jonathan Cape, page 43:

     They are able to recall past images and apply them to current problem solving. In other words, macaques employ memory in order to survive.

Derived terms

• Barbary macaque
• bonnet macaque
• Celebes crested macaque
• crab-eating macaque
• crested black macaque
• Japanese macaque
• lion-tailed macaque
• long-tailed macaque
• moor macaque
• pig-tailed macaque, pigtail macaque
• rhesus macaque
• southern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina)
• Sulawesi crested macaque
• tump-tailed macaque

Descendants

• → Irish: meacaic

Translations

any monkey of the genus Macaca

Armenian: մակակա (hy) (makaka) Asturian: macacu (ast) m Bulgarian: макак m (makak) Catalan: macaco m Chinese: Mandarin: 獼猴 / 猕猴 (zh) (míhóu), 猢猻 / 猢狲 (zh) (húsūn) Czech: makak (cs) m Dutch: makaak (nl) m Esperanto: makako Finnish: makaki (fi) French: macaque (fr) m German: Makak (de) m, Makake m Greek: μακάκος (el) m (makákos) Irish: meacaic f Japanese: マカク (ja) (makaku) Kashmiri: پۆنٛز (ponz) Korean: 마카크 (makakeu) Polish: makak (pl) m Portuguese: macaco (pt) m Romanian: macac (ro) m Russian: мака́ка (ru) f (makáka), мака́к (ru) m (makák) Spanish: macaco (es) m Swedish: makak (sv) c Tocharian A: mkowāñ ? Tocharian B: mokoṃśka f Turkish: makak (tr) Vietnamese: khỉ (vi) Welsh: macaco m

See also

• Barbary ape

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese macaco, of uncertain origin (see macaco for more).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.kak/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

macaque m (plural macaques)

1. macaque
2. (Louisiana) monkey

   Synonym: singe m

3. (Louisiana) clown

   Synonym: clown m

Derived terms

• chardon macaque
• macaque rhésus
• macaquerie

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: makak
• → Bulgarian: макак (makak)
• → Czech: makak
• → Dutch: makaak
• → English: macaque
  • → Irish: meacaic
• → Finnish: makaki
• → German: Makake
• → Greek: μακάκος (makákos)
• → Polish: makak
• → Romanian: macac
• → Russian: мака́ка (makáka)

Further reading

• “macaque”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Portuguese

Verb

macaque

1. inflection of macacar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative