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gibbon

See also: Gibbon

English edit

 
A lar gibbon

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Reborrowing from French gibbon, folk etymology (compare English Gibbon)[1] ultimately from an Aslian language.[2]

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡɪbən/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪbən

Noun edit

gibbon (plural gibbons)

  1. A small ape of the family Hylobatidae with long limbs, which it uses to travel through rainforests by swinging from branch to branch.
    • 1950, Evelyn Waugh, Helena:
      ' […] Suppose that in years to come, when the Church's troubles seem to be over, there should come an apostate of my own trade, a false historian, with the mind of Cicero or Tacitus and the soul of an animal,' and he nodded towards the gibbon who fretted his golden chain and chattered for fruit.

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References edit

  1. ^ Skeat, Walter William (1910), “gibbon”, in An etymological dictionary of the English language, Oxford: Clarendon, page 778.
  2. ^ Lim, Teckwyn (2020), "An Aslian origin for the word gibbon", in Lexis Link

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Etymology edit

Borrowed from French gibbon.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈɣɪ.bɔn/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: gib‧bon

Noun edit

gibbon m (plural gibbons)

  1. gibbon, primate of the family Hylobatidae

French edit

Etymology edit

Brought to Europe from French India by Joseph François Dupleix, probably from an English folk etymology (compare English Gibbon)[1] with an Aslian root.[2]

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

gibbon m (plural gibbons)

  1. Gibbon

References edit

  1. ^ Skeat, Walter William (1910), “gibbon”, in An etymological dictionary of the English language, Oxford: Clarendon, page 778.
  2. ^ Lim, Teckwyn (2020), "An Aslian origin for the word gibbon", in Lexis Link

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