apina
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Late Old Swedish apina, apinia (compare Swedish apinja), from Old Norse apynja (“female monkey”). Compare Old Norse api.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
apina
- (zoology) simian (ape, monkey or human; animal belonging to the infraorder Simiiformes within the order Primates)
- monkey (any nonhuman simian primate)
- Simpanssien tiedetään muodostavan laumoja ja metsästävän muita apinoita.
- Chimpanzees are known to form bands to hunt and kill other monkeys.
- (informal, derogatory) ape (uncivilized person)
Usage notes edit
- In zoology, apina means any simian, including humans. In everyday language, apina is understood to refer to any simian except humans. In English "monkey" can be used similarly, but "ape" normally refers only to the most human-like simians of the clade Hominoidea, which the Finnish may call ihmisapina but usually don't, using mere apina instead.
Declension edit
Inflection of apina (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | apina | apinat | ||
genitive | apinan | apinoiden apinoitten | ||
partitive | apinaa | apinoita | ||
illative | apinaan | apinoihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | apina | apinat | ||
accusative | nom. | apina | apinat | |
gen. | apinan | |||
genitive | apinan | apinoiden apinoitten apinainrare | ||
partitive | apinaa | apinoita | ||
inessive | apinassa | apinoissa | ||
elative | apinasta | apinoista | ||
illative | apinaan | apinoihin | ||
adessive | apinalla | apinoilla | ||
ablative | apinalta | apinoilta | ||
allative | apinalle | apinoille | ||
essive | apinana | apinoina | ||
translative | apinaksi | apinoiksi | ||
abessive | apinatta | apinoitta | ||
instructive | — | apinoin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Hyponyms edit
- ihmisapina (“ape”)
Derived terms edit
compounds
- alkuapina
- alleninsuoapina
- apinaihminen
- apinalaatikko
- apinankukka
- apinanleipäpuu
- apinapinseri
- apinarokko
- berberiapina
- celebesinmusta-apina
- etelänapina
- herttua-apina
- husaariapina
- hämähäkkiapina
- häntäapina
- ihmisapina
- kapusiiniapina
- kierteishäntäapina
- kiinannenäapina
- kiinanpystynenäapina
- kolmijuovayöapina
- lehtiapina
- leijona-apina
- lumiapina
- marakattiapina
- mustajalkaherttua-apina
- mölyapina
- nenäapina
- puoliapina
- rasva-apina
- reesusapina
- siansaparoapina
- silkkiapina
- tolppa-apina
- villa-apina
- yöapina
Further reading edit
- “apina”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02