guenon

English

A guenon

Etymology

Borrowed from French guenon.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɡəˈnoʊn/, /ˈɡwɛnən/

Noun

guenon (plural guenons)

An Old World monkey of the genus Cercopithecus.

Translations

monkey of the genus Cercopithecus

Bulgarian: гвенон m (gvenon), морска котка f (morska kotka)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 長尾猴 (zh), 长尾猴 (zh) (chángwěihóu)
Czech: kočkodan (cs) m
Dutch: meerkat (nl)
Esperanto: simiino
Finnish: marakatti (fi)
French: guenon (fr) f
Galician: cercopiteco m

German: Meerkatze (de) f
Italian: cercopiteco (it) m
Japanese: オナガザル (onagazaru), 尾長猿 (おながざる, onagazaru)
Polish: koczkodan (pl) m
Portuguese: cercopiteco m
Russian: марты́шка (ru) f (martýška)
Spanish: cercopiteco m, mono del viejo mundo
Swedish: markatta
Ukrainian: мартишка (martyška)

See also

guenon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Cercopithecus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

Gunnoe

French

Etymology

guen(ipe) +‎ -on

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɡə.nɔ̃/

Noun

guenon f (plural guenons)

(obsolete) guenon
(female) monkey
hag, old bag (ugly woman)

Further reading

“guenon” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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