monkey
→
to imitate
13 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| NEW Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Croatian | |
| lexeme 1 | majmun | |
| lexeme 2 | majmunisati | |
| meaning 1 | monkey | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to imitate | |
| reference | HJP | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme 1 | monkey | |
| lexeme 2 | to monkey | |
| meaning 1 | member of the clade Simiiformes other than those in the clade Hominoidea containing apes, generally (but not universally) distinguished by small size, tails, and cheek pouches | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to mimic | |
| reference | English Wiktionary | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | ape | |
| meaning 1 | primate of the superfamily Hominoidea, generally larger than monkeys and distinguished from them by having no tail | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to imitate or mimic, particularly to imitate poorly | Every year a paper or a book appears, bemoaning the fate of economics and complaining about its attempts to ape physics. (Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable) |
| reference | English Wiktionary | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | French | |
| lexeme 1 | singe | |
| lexeme 2 | singer | |
| meaning 1 | monkey | singe d'Asie asian monkey |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to imitate, mimic | élève qui singe le professeur a pupil who mimics the teacher |
| reference | CNRTL | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 11 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Romanian | |
| lexeme 1 | maimuţă | |
| lexeme 2 | a maimuţări | |
| meaning 1 | monkey, ape | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to imitate | |
| reference | DEX98 | |
| comment | DEX98, NODEX, DER 485. A less frequent form a maimuți | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 12 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Russian | |
| lexeme 1 | обезьяна (obez'jana) | |
| lexeme 2 | обезьянничать (obez'janničat') | |
| meaning 1 | monkey, ape | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to imitate, to mimic | |
| reference | BTS | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 13 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Serbian | |
| lexeme 1 | мајмун (majmun) | |
| lexeme 2 | мајмунисати (majmunisati) | |
| meaning 1 | monkey | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to imitate | |
| reference | Vujanitsh et al. 2007: 669 | |
| comment | ||