apina
Finnish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Late Old Swedish apina, apinia (compare Swedish apinja), from Old Norse apynja (“female monkey”). Compare Old Norse api.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editapina
- (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
editInflection 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 apinain rare | |
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
editcompounds
- 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
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- Finnish terms borrowed from Late Old Swedish
- Finnish terms derived from Late Old Swedish
- Finnish terms derived from Old Norse
- Finnish 3-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑpinɑ
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑpinɑ/3 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- fi:Zoology
- Finnish terms with usage examples
- Finnish informal terms
- Finnish derogatory terms
- Finnish kulkija-type nominals
- fi:Primates