gibbon

• guibon (obsolete)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɪbən/

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• Rhymes: -ɪbən

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.

• “gibbon”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “gibbon”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• gibbon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• gobbin

Borrowed from French gibbon.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɣɪ.bɔn/

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• Hyphenation: gib‧bon

gibbon m (plural gibbons)

1. gibbon, primate of the family Hylobatidae

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]

• IPA^(key): /ʒi.bɔ̃/

gibbon m (plural gibbons)

1. Gibbon

• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “gibbon”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
• “gibbon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.