Affe

Betekenis (Engels)

1. (masculine, weak) monkey or ape (male or female or of unspecified sex)
2. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, masculine, weak) ellipsis of Fellaffe, a kind of furry military knapsack
3. (masculine, regional, slang, weak) drunkenness, alcohol intoxication

Sinonieme

Menschenaffe

Primaten

Rausch

nachäffen

🐒

Geck

Gent

Glimmer

Männchen

Pavian

reizend

Schwips

Stutzer

Tornister

Schönling

Makak

Macaca

Seidenäffchen

allein

Laffe

Arbeitsanzug

Dandy

ein

1

Vertalings

monkey

🐒

singe

🐒

scimmia

🐒

mono

aap

🐒

macaco

🐒

ape

🐒

maymun

🐒

simia

πίθηκος

mico

🐒

قرد

🐒

simio

🐒

μαϊμού

Dialekte

Kanton Basel-Land

aff

Data verskaf deur: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

[ˈafə]

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle High German: affe

Geërf van Old High German: affo

Geleen van Tsjeggies: opice

Verwante met Spaans: mona

Verwante met Spaans: mono

Verwante met Engels: monkey

In summary

From Middle High German affe, from Old High German affo, from Proto-West Germanic *apō, from Proto-Germanic *apô.
The sense of drunkenness has been traced to the late 18ᵗʰ century, allegedly playing on the homophony of Czech opice (“monkey or ape”) and opít se (“to get drunk”), though the image of a monkey being a possessing demon is translingual, and thus Spanish mona (“she-ape”) also means drunkenness, Spanish mono (“he-ape”) withdrawal symptoms, English monkey a substance (typically, a recreational drug) addiction.