macaque

English

A pair of macaques

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 subfamily Cercopithecinae, especially 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
• Japanese macaque
• lion-tailed macaque
• long-tailed macaque
• moor macaque
• pig-tailed macaque, pigtail macaque
• rhesus macaque
• southern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina)
• tump-tailed macaque

 

Translations

any monkey of the genus Macaca

• Armenian: մակակա (hy) (makaka)
• Asturian: macacu (ast) m
• Bulgarian: макак m (makak)
• 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 (makaku)
• Kashmiri: پۆنٛز (ponz)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• 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)
• → English: macaque
• → Romanian: macac

Further reading

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